Inventory and Catalog - What they do and when to use them
Two commonly used features of Backup Exec are Inventory and Catalog. Inventory is generally used when you physically change tapes in your tape drive or library and you'd like to inform Backup Exec of the change. Without performing an inventory, Backup Exec won't know which tapeis in which slot of the tape drive or library.DFS and DFSR: Backing up your distributed file system with Backup Exec
The following guide is intended to provide you with procedures for backing up your DFS and DFSRFile Servers: - Which DFSFile Server To Backup? - You'll want tocompare your file servers that participate in DFSor DFSRand select the one that has the following attributes:
Backup Exec vs NetBackup (Comparison of Legends)
Hi Connect, It has been in discussion since long, which would be best for environment. Choice between legends have been concern of corporates. Attached are comparison sheet for Backup exec and NetBackup. Have outlined feature sets which i've worked till far and as per Product documentations. Feel free to comment for your views to improve the same.Using iSCSI to backup your environment to a NAS with Backup Exec
There are a fair amount of forum topics that have been raised over the past couple of months around backing up to a NAS using Backup Exec. While it might be a viable option, and in most cases cheaper to tape (it also gives you the backup-to-disk ability that most backup vendors are now pushing), it hasn't always been easy to set up.
