Interested in usability studies for Backup Exec?
The Backup Exec team is committed to enhancing your user experience with our software, and we are pleased to invite you participate in usability studies. You will not be asked to purchase anything. Typically we conduct usability study sessions remotely. This means you will use Backup Exec running on our test machines controlled conveniently from your own workstation. It’s easy and requires only an hour of your time. If you are interested in participating, please send us an email with your contact information including your name, email address, company name and job title. You may be contacted by one of our usability engineers for additional information so we can schedule you for future studies most relevant to your areas of interest. Thank you for your interest in shaping the future of Backup Exec!The Next Big Thing is Already Here
We have seen some bombastic marketing over the last several months in the data protection space. One vendor stuffed 26 women in a Mini Cooper, and Veeam called platform proliferation “the next big thing” when they announced intentions to deliver Hyper-V support in December of 2011 – despite it being available for the past three years from Symantec.FAQ: How to configure Media sets,B2D Jobs and Backup Exec for proper management of disk space while using B2D?
How to configure Backup-Diskjobs,media sets& Backup Execfor proper overwriting of backup sets? Media Overwrite Protection Level: FULL. (From tools --> Options --> Media Management) Job should start as Overwrite Only. (Backup job properties) Media Set Configurations:FAQ: Difference between BESR and BE.
Some of the main differences between Backup Exec and Backup Exec System Recovery: 1) Backup Exec is a backup and restore software, whereas Backup exec System Recovery is a recovery software. 2) BESR canwrite data only to disks not to tapes, whereas BE can write to both. 3) BE works at file level whereas BESRworks at block level.Use BEMCMD to start jobs
BE comes with a commandline line applet called BEMCMD. This program is located in the BE installation directory, along with it manual. One of the BEMCMD can be used to start jobs which were already created. For example, "C:\Program Files\Symantec\Backup Exec\bemcmd.exe" -o1 -j"Backup SQL Logs"Backup Exec Install Blog (Server Migration)
So, your backup server is a few years old and you find yourself in need of a newer, bigger, better, faster one. Just one problem, you want/need to keep your data from Backup Exec for compliance reasons. You have the perfect server that is ready to take on this new role. It is some new 64 bit monster with Windows 2008 R2, tons of I/O capacity, memory, disk space and more.Upgrading your old Backup Exec to brand new ver. 12.5
I just wanted to share with you what I have found useful for upgrading your old version of BE for Windows Servers. There are a couple of steps that must be performed before doing any upgrades in order to have sufficient backup of your current BE server.