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!How to check why Backup Scan takes many time
Starting from some week, the Weekly Full Backup takes really many time to perform Backup Scan operation. Usually it takes not so much time and I'd like to understand the reason , but I don't know other ways to check except the Symantec Backup Exec console where I see only the status. I am using 11d with all the latest patches on Windows Server 2000 Any suggestions or comments how to check more details ? Thanks, PaoloSolved981Views9likes3CommentsConnect And Protect: Finding stability with Backup Exec 12.5
I've already written an article on how we moved from ARCserve 11.5 on about 34 sites to Backup Exec 11D, detaling all the issues we had and how we got around them, so this blog deals with moving to Backup Exec 12.5 and why we did so! I am a storage engineer for an outsource team, looking after a very large production company with sites across Africa and Asia.Backing up System State using Backup Exec 11d
Hi, If you are using Windows backup utility to back up 'System State' i understand it always performs a copy backup (Full) no matter what type of backup (incremental, differential) you choose. Is this also true for Back up Exec? Does it ignores the back up type and always performs a Full Backup? Thanks in advance for your replies. NikSolved973Views7likes4CommentsThe 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-Disk jobs,media sets & Backup Exec for 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 can write data only to disks not to tapes, whereas BE can write to both. 3) BE works at file level whereas BESRworks at block level.