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!Connect 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 BackupExec 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! Iam a storage engineer for an outsource team, looking after a very large production company with sites across Africa and Asia.
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"FAQ: Download links to earlier versions of Backup Exec
As i have seen some members asking for download links to earlier verisons of Backup Exec, i thought of posting those in a BLOG. Backup Exec 11d for Windows Servers:https://www4.symantec.com/Vrt/offer?a_id=30140 Backup Exec 12.5 for Windows Server:https://www4.symantec.com/Vrt/offer?a_id=51792
