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”21KViews0likes6CommentsHOWTO: ACTIVE DIRECTORY Backup/Restore with NETBACKUP
Dear All I would like to provide you a simple HOWTO for backing up and restoring Active Directory with Symantec NetBackup My Environment: Master / Media Server = Windows 2008 R2 64 Bit Active Directory = Windows 2008 R2 64 Bit Symantec NetBackup Version = 7.5 Client = Windows 2008 R2 64 Bit Assumption:21KViews5likes6Comments(Netbackup) VMWare Backup over SAN
Such a great feature to backup your VMWare virtual machines through SAN and you are about to know why What are the Advantages 1 - The first thing is that (Netbackup for VMWare) supports a wide range of VM Guest OS including Windows Linux as mentioned on15KViews12likes18CommentsHow 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.12KViews6likes7CommentsUsing 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