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 tape is in which slot of the tape drive or library.25KViews5likes3CommentsHOWTO: 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:22KViews5likes6CommentsUnderstanding 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”21KViews0likes6CommentsBasic setup steps for the Bare Metal Restore (BMR) option to NBU
This information is an adjunct to documentation found in the Bare Metal Restore (BMR) System Administration Guide. Symantec NetBackup Bare Metal Restore 7.5 Administrator's Guide http://www.symantec.com/docs/DOC516317KViews4likes0CommentsNetBackup Concepts and Terminology. (work in progress)
All about Veritas NetBackup In this article we’ll review NetBackup Enterprise Server and all the components involved in the backup process. This includes some licensing, installation and configuration concepts. I will only cover 3 TIER NetBackup Configurations.17KViews12likes2CommentsPreparing 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.17KViews8likes7Comments