3600 Upgrade - Backups lost?
Hey, Sorry if this has been posted or is written somewhere but i need to know for sure. On the 3600 appliance, the upgrade from 2012 to 2014. Will you lose the backups stored on the appliance, and will you still be able to access the 2012 backups after the upgrade? Thanks.Solved539Views0likes1Comment
3600 appliance opinions
Looking for some real world opinions on the 3600 appliance. Thinking of using them at several branch offices throughout the country. work well? ease of setup? what would you do different? all that stuff! I am familiar with using BE software. Thanks, matt1.5KViews0likes18CommentsBE Appliance 3600 additional Tape Drive
Dears, One of our customer purchased BE Appliance and Tape Library Expantion License, they have a tape library with two tape drive, the Applinace comes with ons SAS port, and the SAS cable when connect the cable to one tape drive the BE detected one tape drive. Please need your recommendations.Solved1.6KViews1like15CommentsBackup Exec Appliance 3600: Update is not working
Hey everyone, the Update functionality on our Applicance 3600 is not working. I guess it's blocked by our Firewall... Anyone knows which Server/s andPortsthe Appliance needs for the update so I can open them on our Firewall? Thank you very much, FlorianSolved542Views0likes1Comment
Appliance Best Practices? D2D2Tape?
Hi All, I have been testing the appliance now for a couple of months and would like a bit of advice please if possible on my backup plan. We have one appliance and 20 oddWindows Servers 2008R2 on a Vmware platform using iSCSI for the SAN. I would like to stage my backup jobs to tape (LTO6) eventually so this is what I am thinking :- Full backup of all VM's at the weekend with differential backups during the week for key servers only and the key server backups are also duplicated to tape. Servers hosting Lotus Notes - just backup the nsf and daos repositories to disk and then to tape each night. Because I have 2 jobs running each night, one for the critical VM's and one for Lotus Domino Databases, it doesn't seem so easy to duplicate both tasks to the same tape -my ideal situation would be the tape backup runs from the backup set on the disk, not streamed from the live servers - during the day. Can this be achieved by using Groups? And will the duplicate job rehydrate my disk backups to tape or stream from the server? I see the DirectCopy option but there appear to be no settings to tweak? Also, is it better practice to simply backup the full VM through the vCenter server or select the server individually from the backup list, selecting all of the disks thus enabling the simplified disaster recovery? What are the pro's and con's? One of my concerns is that the LAN could be saturated when we backup big changes in data as the appliance sits on the LAN whereas my VM's are on a separate iSCSI network. Would it not make more sense to situate the appliance on the same subnet and physical switch as my iSCSI SAN? Then it wouldn't need to traverse my gateway - which has a bottleneck 100MB link to my DMZ - so my web server backups are sloooooooow.... Any thoughts, much appreciated StuartSolved465Views0likes1Comment
Backupexec 3600 and Vmware Workstation
Hello Everyone, I've searched everywhere and can't find an answer to my questions about the BE3600. Does anybody know: 1) Will the appliance backup VMware Player, Workstation and MS Virtual PC 2007 VMs that sit on top of Windows 2003/2008 Servers? 2) Can we restore a physical server to a VM ON the appliance itself or do we need a standby server to do this? We do not have any ESXi hosts, we only use VMWare Workstation, VMWare Player and VirtualPC 2007 so that would be our only option available to restore to at this point in time. *I realize these aren't the best virtual platforms to restore to, but these are non-critical systems running in the VMs but we still want to be able to protect and restore them. 3) If a failed physical server is restored to a VM and we rebuild or replace hardware in the failed physical server, can we then restore the data contained in the VM back to the physical machine once it's brought back up? Any help is much appreciated. Thanks! JaySolved738Views0likes2CommentsUnknown Server - Server Farm 1 appears....
Hello everyone! This might be an easy question and might be basic stuff but I'd like to confirm what i think i know. Setup: Symantec 3600 Appliance, VMware 5.1 - Server 2003 R2 (32bit)runningSharepoint 3.0. So I added my sharepoint server to the list of servers to backup. When the server appears I get another aditional server listed called Server Farm 1. So first question is, 1. Why did this server farm appear when I added my sharepoint server? 2. The stuff listed under the server farm 1is the same stuff listed under my sharepoint server under Microsoft SharePoint Resources, Do I need to backup both? Can I delete the Server Farm 1 and still fully backup the Sharepoint server? Thanks for reading!Solved728Views1like1CommentHelp with backing up VM's
Hello people who are reading this. Here is whats going on. I have 3 servers running vmware ESXi5.1and vCenter controlling them.I havea brand newSymantec 3600 Appliance. All the VM's are stored on a SAN connected by iSCSI. Now the old way I've been backing up the VM's is by installing the Agent for windows on the VM's and backing them up like that. Everything works fine like that. Since I now have the 3600, I shouldhave the V-Ray edition of agents for VMware. (Understand that I know nothing about the V-Ray edition other than they backup virtural machines better)I have everything from AD toSQL to Exchange and Sharepoint running on VM's. (Server 2003-2008R2)Is the methodof backing up the VM's the same as before oris there a better way then installing an agent on every VM?? Example: I have 3 Host ESXi 5.1 servers and 1 vCenter and 10 VM's. What is the best way to backup all the VM's? Do I install an agent on every VM? I have the option ofadding a vCenter server to my list of servers to backup, when I edit the selections I can see all the VM's on all the hosts but when I expand a VM it just shows the vmdk. Is there a way to backup both the vmdk and individual files on the server in one job? (i.e. exchange mailboxes, documents, etc.) Or do I create one job to backup the vmdk and one to backup the server itself?? Hopefully someone can understand my madness lol Thanks for any help!Solved875Views1like3CommentsRemote Backup
Hello, We currently have two BE 3600 r2 appliances. Both are backing up all our servers. For critical servers Full backups weekly then daily incremental Rest Full backup bi-weekly then daily incremental We also have a another location, which is connected with 20M connection vpn(our main site has 20M up, and secondary site has 25down) I have been trying to figure out what the best way, I can backup our "backups" to that site. Because I can add network storage as destination on the BE appliance, I was thinking I can have a NAS device at the remote site, and that start backing up. But I have about 4.5 T of data in total. I can backup all that locally first and then take the device to the remote location. But then because my local backup are essentially chaning every week, how can I modify my existing backup stragedy so I can have local backups along with remote backups. Any suggestions on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, GurpreetSolved800Views0likes3Comments
