I wasn't able to find a clear answer anywhere and we are currently running Backup Exec 2010 so I cannot test this for myself.
I am not interrested in GRT backups, my backups are full images without the possibility to restore single items from the ima...
I've had my annoyances with Backup Exec before and got most of them solved. This one however, is just plain stupid.
I've been running a rotating USB backup scheme for some years now and mostly got it to work flawlessly, one disk for odd-numbered week...
I have a set of 5 USB disks in a rorating backup setup. All these have assigned their own station letter.
On BE 2010 this was not any problem until I upgraded to 2010 R3. Now I get 4-8 warnings each day about media disconnected and going offline. ...
Last three weeks the System State backup on one of my servers has failed. There was a power failure around the times it started to fail but I cannot confirm the exact date, everything else is working after the hard reboot but it seems like the VSS wr...
So,
I have two Hyper-V servers running on Windows 2008 R2.
Those servers, and the backup server, are members of the same domain.
The credentials used by Backup Exec is member of the domain group Backup Operators.
I have a site license for...
Think I worked myself around the problem by creating an empty file as mentioned here https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/looking-definative-solution-using-backup-exec-usb-drives
I'd like to see how this works for a couple of weeks before...
It might be clearer if I explain my current setup,
We use 5 USB disks for rotating backups. These disks have separate drive letters and only one disk connected at any time, the remaining four disks are stored off site. Backup Exec marks them as offli...