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...
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...
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...
Hi, I'm looking into using synthetic backups to back up some Server 2008 devices and I have a few questions which I can't seem to find any information on. I notice the synthetic backup cannot do a system state backup and hence can't use SDR. How wou...
Hello, i have an issue backing up my Sharepoint Server. The first problem is (but this one is a sharepoint problem) that the t-log file of the config DB keep growing and growing. When i'm running a log backup with BE2014 the file size does not cha...
Hi there, currently we are building up a hyper-V configuration with two nodes that we plan to run in a cluster. Currently I run one node on which I installed an agent. I can create a new backup job on the hyperv-node but the jobs fail with the follo...
0xe000959a - An attempt to take a snapshot of a virtual machine failed because it was unable to quiesce an application. Can any one pls guide me to resolve it ???
People, With the Backup Exec15 and tape drive / library option, how can I delete the failed backup set in the tapes ? this is to reclaim the space that is used by those failed backup so that the tape can be reused without waiting until the end of t...
Rather than scheduling BE jobs via the GUI, I use a PowerShell script. And it works very well except for one issue; the Wait-BEJob commandlet doesn't seem to be doing what (I believe) it is supposed to. I am using this script to back up three serv...
So I did an upgrade from Backup Exec 2010 R3 SP4 to Backup Exec 15, no major issues, everything is working OK from a backup/restore perspective. I've ran into a rather annoying issue where it won't display many of the details of my tapes when listin...
I have 7 physical server Will run Backup Exec - Also Symantec Endpoint Protection and Tape drive connectedOracleSQL ServerExchange 2010Active DirectoryActive DirectoryMail Archiver with SQL Express. What Backup Exec licenses/ agents I need to backu...
I am running BE2014 version 14.1.1.1786 on Windows 2008R2. I wanted to install SP2 but I am concerned about its deduplication disk. My questions are Would SP2 cause any issue with deduplication? What steps are required during upgrade to take care o...
Hello, I use an old version of backup exec for a 2003 DC which is also my fileserver. I added a NAS to my environment with the main share \\nas\backups. I configured backup exec not only to backup local disks to the tape backup but to add a use...
Hello Friend, I have VMware 5.5. host installed and working fine. I have created one Linux VM (AlienVault) with size of 1TB. I wanted to take snapshot backup of this VM using my Symantec backup exe 2014 software. I tried but fails. backup exec gives...
Hi All, I try to follow the below technote to grant the security policy, however, the service "Backup Exec Server" wont able to start on the DC. https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.TECH136148.html Can the service run without domain admin pe...
Dear all, I fnd the backup job always alert the Library insert message after it had been ran on 2 or 3 Sundays. Sunday is the beginning of backup cycle. The BE will change the tapes when the new backup cycle begins. I check the media writable peroid...
Hi all, I need to clarify how many backup exec licenses needed with this configuration: 2 windows server 2012r2 (servers A and B): 1) Server A (windows sever with gui): -Backup Exec Installed -Hyper-V with several VM: no exchange, no sql, etc. o...
SBS 2011 (Server 2008 R2, Exchange 2010, SQL 2008), Backup Exec 2012, all fully patched. RD1000 USB 3.0 backup drive. Backups of system and Exchange running flawlessly since build three years ago. Performed random restores of files/Shareport/Exchan...
I have a BE 2014 server with only target storage which is dedup storage. I do not have any other disk or tape storage. I am guessing its a bad idea to have even the BE server backup go to the dedup storage cos i am not sure how to recover in case t...
Hi I have total of about 32 TB of dedup data that will be in the dedup storage including the retention and daily and weekly backups. Can i present 32TB lun to backup exec server ? I read in one article in this forum that it supports only 16TB whe...
Hi I am setting up a new BE 2014 envt and using the BE dedup option with HP MSA as disk storage. Since I am backing up VMs (using API) which are a mix of Linux and Windows does it make sense to have 2 diff disk libraries one as target, 1 for Linu...
Hello, I have a full backup of a physical Windows 2012R2 Server with Backup Exec 15, and I want to restore it as a VM on a (different) Windows Hyper-V 2012R2 Server. I tried using the SDR disk, but there seems to be a problem with the UEFI configur...
Hi I have a SQL 2012 server (virtual machine) which I intend to backup using the agent for vmware API method. I believe once the options are enabled I can perform a GRT restore for SQL. My query is regarding full system recovery. If i restore the...
