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How to deploy Backup Exec via the AWS Marketplace

How to deploy Veritas Backup Exec on AWS Marketplace.Veritas Backup Exec provides simple, rapid, and secure offsite backup to AWS for your in-house virtual and physical environments and protects cloud-based workloads in AWS. Veritas Backup Exec helps...

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How to deploy Backup Exec via the Azure Marketplace

How to deploy Veritas Backup Exec on Azure Marketplace.Veritas Backup Exec provides simple, rapid, and secure offsite backup to Azure for your on-premises environments and protects cloud-based workloads in Azure. Veritas Backup Exec helps customers r...

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Useful links for Upgrading Backup Exec

At its most basic, the upgrade procedure for Backup Exec is simply running installation media for the most recent version on an existing Backup Exec server. Backup Exec 15, 16 and 20 can be upgraded to Backup Exec 21 with this method. Article 1000443...

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rdmchugh by Level 1
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Backup fails with VSS error

I am backing up a large (~3 TB) file server.  I am able to get a full backup over the weekend, but I've been having more and more problems getting a good differentiual backup during the week.  The error I get is as follows: Snapshot Technology: Init...

Advanced Open File does not work on Linux Debian

I am testing  BE 2015 with Feature Pack 4 and trying to do LVM snapshots on Linux Debian 7. According to SCL Debian 7 does  support Advanced Open File. I don't see an option in the Advanced Open File for LVM snapshots so I set it to Hardware - Use te...

Resolved! SQL 2012 Compatibility / Pre-installation check failures

Hi, I'm trying to install a trial of BE 15 on a Windows 2008 server running SQL 2012 SP3 (all latest updates/patches installed.) When running the pre-installation checks it tells me we're running an incompatible version of SQL. See attached. I've ma...

Backing up selective folders in a home directory

I am currently running backup exec 15 in my organisation.  At the moment all of the users personal network shares are stored under one folder called "Home Directories". It is currently configured as one backup job and this backup is over 2TB, which ...

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Exchange can't restore my "expected" email thru GRT

Due to restore testing regularly, I aware sometimes I can't restore my "expected" email. We are using Daily Full to backup Exchange DAG and Backup Exec also report backup successful I try to browse my email from one database of DAG (select DAG serv...

Agent for Applications & Databases

Hello I recently installed Backup Exec 2015 on my Server which is running Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Service Pack 1 operating system. This server is connected to HP LTO Tape Drive. I configured Full Backup Job which is scheduled to run every ni...

Resolved! Backups fail with licensing error

I have perpetual licences for Backup Exec and the agents, however some of my maintenance contracts have expired.  What I’d like to know is whether the maintenance contract expiry would invalidate licensing for the “Advanced Open File Option” used on ...

Resolved! What type of media (media type) have my cartridges

Hey guys, i am installing first time BE with a Tape Library. My configuration a TS3500 with 3592-E07 Drives with the matching cartrides "3592 Advanced Cartridge 4 TB Native Generation 3 IBM High Performance". I bought  10 new cartrides with a new B...

Resolved! View Backup Job Data if Backup Server crashed

Hi All, I am using Backup Exec 15 in my environment. The backup task will store the backup file on my external NAS storage.   1. If my backup sever crashed, is it possible to retrieve those backup file data from a newly installed backup server?  ...

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Migrating Backup Exec from VM to physical server

Hello, I am having an issue with migrating over my Backup Exec installation from one system to another. It is currently running on a VM and I want to migrate it over to a physical server that is going to be more robust. They are both running on Serv...

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Annoyances with Backup Exec

Hi, I am trialing backup exec and so far things are okay but I am annoyed by a few things and I wondered if anyone has fixed them yet? 1) I enabled FIPS encryption globally, some systems (for unknown reasons) cannot use FIPS encryption so every time...

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Differential Backup

Hi,   We have BE 15, and we have different job, one job running a full back-up once a month and other job run a Differential Backup every day. yesterday we get 500 gb data that we must add it to our backup jobs, I cannot add it directly to the Dif...

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Superseded Jobs - Highest Priority

Hello, I have a problem with my backup jobs where The jobs are not running and are showing as superseded. The issue relates to Differential Jobs. I have a Full back up of my Main Data Server that runs over the weekend. Differential Jobs are the...

Exchange 2010 GRT Backups (GRT) Background Processing

Hello all, Upon looking through the forums it seems a great deal of people are experiencing issues with backing up Exchange after upgrading their Backup Exec to Feature Pack 4. Allow me to add to this list with my own issue. My configuration is as ...

Older Agents

As an auditor I have noticed that some agents are listed as 14.0 or 14.1. If we are currently using 14.2 what, if any, impact could there be?

Freeze / stuck to one tape

Hi all, I experiance a really enoying problem with Backyp Exec 15: I have some jobs that freeze without any error during backup (mainly simple file backup from windows server to tapes) If i don't cancel them they keep runing for days and never end...

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Tape media labels overwriting

I'm having a very odd issue. I've done a fresh install of BE15 on Windows Server 2008 R2 with a new Quantum LTO-7 Drive and new Quantum LTO-7 tapes.  I'm trying to get all my media labeled. I've created one custom media set called LTO-7 Dailies and ...

Duplicating Exchange backup sets to tape is extremely slow

I have a fairly simple setup where I do a full Exchange (2013) backup once per week with nightly incrementals in between. The Exchange data is backed up over the network to local disk storage on the backup server, then duplicated to tape. GRT is enab...

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Re-cataloging a tape of virtual machines

Most of our backups are virtual machine backups that are then duplicated to tape. I recently had to re-catalog one of or older tapes and Backup got errors indicating that it didn't have enough room. I need to figure out how much room I need, hence th...

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