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.24KViews5likes3CommentsUnderstanding 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:21KViews5likes6CommentsNetBackup 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- 17KViews16likes6Comments
Restoring Exchange or individual mailboxes/items using Backup Exec - HOWTO
Ithought Iwould share this with the forum, as Ihave seen some posts around this. I've had to restore individual mailboxes and emails for users since the move from ARCserve 11.5 to BackupExec 11D (and we are moving onto 12.5). Initially under the impression that this would be a simple process, Iwent about restoring from a particular date, and kept on running into errors with insufficient disk space. No matter what Itried, it wouldn't work.14KViews31likes32CommentsHow 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.12KViews6likes7Comments