About Mark_Valpreda

Mark_Valpreda · 01-11-2015

I have a client that rotates 3TB USB drives fairly routinely. Sometimes they forget, and their ~600gb backup gets halfway through and waits for more space. There are retention policies in place to keep daily backups for 2 weeks and end of month backu...

Mark_Valpreda · 12-30-2014

I typically use Symantec System Recovery to do P2V of older machines and had a very high success rate, but this one is getting the best of me. Clone/white box Windows 2000 SP4 1GB RAM Symbios SCSI adapter Single 36GB drive - there are bad sector...

Mark_Valpreda · 07-30-2014

Just started getting these errors on our backups after no issues at all in the past. Backup Exec 2012 SP4 on Windows 2008 R2. Both patched, server recently rebooted. Errors: Backup- VRTSRV::\\vmhost01.domain.local\Hyper-V?Virtual?Machine\DC01 Acce...

Mark_Valpreda · 07-22-2014

I needed to recover a file today. I plugged in the USB drive from the backup job I needed. I check the storage tab and the drive is empty. I check the drive and there is nothing left on there but the BEData folder. I grab another drive, check it on m...

Mark_Valpreda · 06-21-2014

Small Business Server 2011 - fully patched and freshly rebooted Backup Exec 2014 Small Business Edition - fresh install Set up a Friday full job and a Monday-Thursday differential jobs to a set of USB drives that are rotated. The Friday full job si...

Mark_Valpreda · 08-25-2014

I didn't try and run an inventory or catalog. It just started deleting the jobs. I have another set of files to recover tomorrow, so I have set those drives for read only in Backup Exec....even though they are not plugged in. Hopefully they I don't ...

Mark_Valpreda · 08-04-2014

C:\Program Files\Symantec\Backup Exec\Data\Hyper-V\Temp\7C75D230-EA47-47BE-B56F-F57EDDA3E0CC\A374E99B-0D7A-4410-8F62-A186ACD7F928\ was a folder that could not be accessed. I tried to delete it and could not. CHKDSK /F on C:, run that on reboot, delet...

Mark_Valpreda · 06-21-2014

Remote agent is installed on the VM. Backup Exec is using the domain adminstrator account and all permissions tests pass.

Mark_Valpreda · 01-24-2014

Thanks. That was perfect. Didn't think about looking in there.

Mark_Valpreda · 10-27-2013

You need to have a 64bit media server. I am sure if you have Exchange 2013 in your environment you have another 64bit server somewhere.

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Backup Exec 2014 - Cancel backup if not enough space on USB drive for full backup.

P2V Windows 2000 machine with SCSI drive to Hyper-V

Backup Exec 2012 - Errors out of the blue on Hyper V backups

Backup Exec 2014 - Deleting expired jobs on USB drives automatically?

Backup Exec 2014 - Stuck on 'Discovering Resources'

I didn't try and run an

C:\Program

Remote agent is installed on

Thanks. That was perfect.

You need to have a 64bit