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James_Avery · 05-25-2012

When adding a license file to BE2012, the process of adding the file unchecks ALL of the existing licensed products after its run so that you now have a trial installation and you have to re-run the licensing app and recheck all the appropriate boxes...

James_Avery · 04-25-2012

Another improvement! I move physical duplicated tapes weekly to a vault case which is then taken to a data vault for a week. When it's returned to the data center, the tapes are removed and placed in a cabinet for another 5 weeks of retention. In BE2...

James_Avery · 05-05-2011

I have a truly strange problem with one backup job out of 383 scheduled jobs. It's backing up a backup folder that's been rsync'd from an internal backup job on a unix server to a linux server for the purposes of off-site storage. The client server...

James_Avery · 01-18-2011

Greetings: Perhaps someone could provide an explanation for the following: Weekend backups finished, all jobs duplicated to physical tape from VTL backups. It's time to unload the tapes and take them to the data safe for safekeeping. In order to ke...

James_Avery · 09-15-2010

I'm rather disappointed (read annoyed) that the RAWSBulkUpdate.exe utility is apparently not included with Backup Exec 2010 after my upgrade. This is/was an extremely handy and easy to use application that made it very easy to update the agents on t...

James_Avery · 07-01-2012

NOT EVER!

James_Avery · 06-27-2012

I have run into a really interesting instance of this. I have a CASO and a managed backup server. Created a convert to VM from a backup. Made sure the iso was on the server, pointed to it in the job. Kept getting the "unable to open the iso" error. S...

James_Avery · 05-30-2012

added new maintenance license files to server, clicked through to finish, and ended up with a Trial Version of BE. Went back through the licensing, re-checked all the previously checked boxes and ended up with a licensed version of BE. Added a new li...

James_Avery · 05-15-2012

Interestingly enough, I DIDN'T have any multiple server selection lists. All of my servers had their own selection list, but were backed up via multiple policies. I could add, remove, change backup times, jobs, with only a couple of clicks of the mou...

James_Avery · 05-11-2012

I discovered just yesterday that even though you have a virtual tape library configured with 16 LTO4 tape drives, if the specific tape drive that was used for a backup isn't free - it's backing up a server - a restore job won't run until that SPECIFI...

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Anyone else have this issue?

Can't move tape from vault to offline

One backup job out of 383 insists that it's been cancelled because of a media alert response

Tape moved to vault - changed to scratch

What's happened to RAWSBulkUpdate.exe?

NEVER!

Grrr....

Fully licensed BE2012

Interestingly enough, I

An "interesting" discovery