Dedupe doesn't seem to be working properly 3600 R3 was R2
Appliance was R2, was upgrading to R3 twice, once in September and once again at the end of October. Ops center crashed on the first appliance. 3 months ago I was sitting at 2.3 to 2.5TB of dedupe storage at a 16.1:1 ratio, this was directly before the first upgrade. So I had about 37.03-40.25TB of hydrated data. Since then I obviously have upgraded the appliance on around Sept 16. Looking in the adamm.log is where you can really tell it starts to grow from that point until now, because within 2 weeks it climbed a TB. Now I am at 4.88 TB and about to fill up the storage. I am manually having to delete the oldest backups sets trying to reclaim some data. My dedupe ratio is now at 10:1. Since I have only jumped up 7-8TB of hydrated data, but yet have doubled the amount of space taken up with the dedupe something seems wrong. I have only added 3 servers to the mix since Sept 16th, which each house about 50GB of data. All jobs follow a basic template with a few being different: 1 full a month with differentials in between. The fulls kept for 95 days and the differentials kept for 32 days. I have a ticket open on this but the tech doesn't believe anything is wrong. We looked in the audit log and it show media being reclaimed and deleted, but I don't think this is a consistent case. Right now I have a lot of Expired backup sets that are not being deleted. Some I think are being affected by the known bug that is not deleting backup sets that were taken with 2012. Other though I expired yesterday morning and they are still there, other are deleted right away. My environment is all Windows. I have almost half 2012R2, almost half 2003 and a couple of 2008 and 2 Windows 7. I only have 2 or 3 out of 20 servers being backed up that have more than 100GB on them and only 10 of the have more than 50GB. One of the ones with more than 100GB has 800GB of data on it, 1/4 of it being pictures which I know do not dedupe well, but this servers was being backed up pre upgrade to 2012 with no issues. The other server having more than 100GB of data is a file server with 200-300 GB on it, which resides on a windows dedupe storage which takes it down to 150-200GB. To me there is no way, in my environment that going from 37-40TB of hydrated data/2.3-2.4TB dedupe at 16.1:1 ratio, and it sat this way for 4 months leading up to the 2014 upgrade.....to 47-48TB of hydrated data with 4.88Tb when deduped at 10:1 ratio within 2 months of the upgrade is correct. The only reason I haven't filled up my dedupe yet is I am manually expiring backup sets. But it is still climbing and the dedupe ratio is going down and I won't be able to fight it off for longer without doing more drastic expirations. Is anyone else experiencing something similar? Is there anymore information I can give that would help?823Views0likes4Comments
License for SYMC BACKUP EXEC 2014
Hi, I have been given two serial numbers both starts with M. One is forSYMC BACKUP EXEC 2014 ESSENTIAL PROTECTION SUITE FOR BE 3600 APPLIANCE BNDL STD LIC ESSENTIAL and the other is forSYMC BACKUP EXEC 2014 ESSENTIAL PROTECTION SUITE FOR BE 3600 APPLIANCE I/O ESSENTIAL. I am using Backup Appliance 3600R2. Which one of these two I should use to get upgrade to 2014 ? RegardsSolved941Views1like5CommentsBackup Exec 2014 RHEL 6
Hi, according to SCL there's still no official support for RHEL 6.6, which basically leads to "i'll wait to update until it's supported". Now this may cause security or bug fixes problems in the meanwhile and i've read around that the big difference between supported and unsupported is caused by the kernel release, now: rhel/centos 6.6 2.6.32-504.el6 rhel/centos 6.5 2.6.32-431.29.2.el6 Honestly i dont think this may cause that BIG difference, but i can't see around any kernel version related SCL.... So my (double) question is: - has anybody updated and everything is still working fine? - should i insted wait until 6.6 magically appears in the scl? And mostly, will the update 6 of branch 6 be supported? Thx!Solved583Views2likes2Comments
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
Appliance 3600 Upgrade to Backup Exec 2014
Hello, i been waiting on the appliance upgrade for a while now, we have to migrateall servers to windows server2012 R2. But without upgrading the appliance first we wont be able to backup our production servers. I been reading on the forums that it would become available in september... Now we are september, is there any ETA for when backup exec2014for appliance 3600 gonna be available? I need to start migrating ASAP :S1KViews1like6Comments
Is it possible to Configure Backup Exec 2012 Appliance 3600 as a OpenStorage?
Hi guys! I need your help. I have here 2 Backup Exec 2012 servers: -BE1 - (Appliance 3600) -BE2 - Windows 2008 Stardard R2 I performed two Test Scenarios: TEST1 Scenario: Configure BE2 as an OpenStorage from BE1 (Appliance) RESULT: BE2 successfully configured as OpenStorage TEST2 Scenario: Configure BE1 (Appliance) as an OpenStorage from BE2 RESULT: Unable to create a OpenStorage with this message "Unable to connect to the Openstorage device. Ensure that the network is properly configured between the device and the Backup Exec server" I am very sure that both servers are connected. So I want to ask if it is possible to configure BE 2012 Appliance 3600 as an OpenStorage. Thank you!Solved1.1KViews0likes5CommentsBE 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.Solved1.6KViews1like15Comments
