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dilberty · 07-10-2009

Hi, I'm using Backup Exec 11d for SBS running on SBS 2003. We recently moved to a new server and decided to go with disk backup (instead of the old tape drive). We purchased 2 Seagate FreeAgent portable USB drives which are connected to one of the w...

dilberty · 07-25-2009

Those are some great ideas sdixon. Btw, I think budget is not the only consideration to choose reomvable drives over tape. For a small business, recovering from "total loss" is much faster with removable drives. Since USB is available on every machin...

dilberty · 07-24-2009

Removable drives are a headache. Drive letters may change when you swap them. They need to be "Safely Removed". BE doesn't handle any of this properly. This got me thinking that trying to use removable drives as tape is a bad habit... I'm currently ...

dilberty · 07-24-2009

Seems quite odd that I paid a lot of money for what's supposed to be a user friendly backup program with user interface and then ending up writing custom scripts to achieve basic tasks. I think using removable drives with BE may not be the correct ap...

dilberty · 07-23-2009

I'm having similar issues. I think Backup Exec is just not designed for this type of backup strategy (rotating removable disk drives). I've previously used BE with tape and it worked perfectly, ever since switching to removable disk drives the backup...

dilberty · 07-14-2009

Installed BE 12.5 trial. Defined a new Device, this time "Removable B2D". Surprisingly it accepted a network share (the previous version did not) and so far so good. Switched drives, device didn't go offline and no intervention was required. If I'll ...

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