Understanding Compression in Backup Exec:
Understanding Compression in Backup Exec: An explanation of Hardware and Software compression used with Backup Exec How does compression work? It can be better explained with an example. Consider a text file (.txt) with its content as “aaaabbbbbccaaaddd”21KViews0likes6CommentsPreparing your Powershell environment to run BEMCLI and scripts
One of the changes that BE 2012 has brought about is the change in the BE commandline interface from BEMCMD to BEMCLI. BEMCLI is based on Powershell which is a more powerful scripting language than the DOS commands. Needless to say, to fully exploit BEMCLI, you got to be familiar with Powershell.17KViews8likes7CommentsHow to backup SQL logs and truncate them in BE 2012
If your SQL database is set to Full Recovery Mode, it maintains transaction logs. If these logs are not truncated from time to time, they will grow and eventually fill up your disk. BE will warn you that you need to truncate your log.12KViews6likes7CommentsBackup 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.9.2KViews7likes8CommentsUsing Backup Exec with Hyper-V 2.0
Introduction Using Backup Exec to backup virtual environments that use Hyper-V 2 (Windows Server 2008 R2) as hypervisor may be not as simple as it first looks. In this paper I want to cover some of the reasons why partners and customers struggle getting reliable backups in those environments, especially when using clustered Hyper-V installations.8.4KViews14likes12CommentsUsing 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.6.7KViews5likes0Comments