Backup Exec 2012 Has Issues
To help someone who may be thinking about upgrading to Backup Exec 2012, be careful. Backup Exec 2012, while it does have a very nice user interface and much better view of the backup jobs, it has some major issues that are not yet resolved. We did an upgrade over a week ago and we still can not compete our backups. The issues today are: -- The upgrade got us into a look over the "deduplication" feature and needed to call support for a answer (we have placed the solution on the forum) -- The reports are not working at all. It appears it is using the old reports or is just broken. So no reports on media, or jobs, etc. -- We have run out of backup space and there is NO way to manage the "media". You can see media sets but you are unable to sort or figure out which ones you can delete. (other thanjust reading though theunordered list) NOTE: We can not run a report to view the media which was suggested as a work around. -- There is no way to change the "retention" date of a "media set". So we wanted to reduce the retention period for existing backups so the space on the backup to disk folder will be reclaimed. Well since there is no concept of a "media set" in this version, you can only change the date for future backups. -- It keeps doing "discovery" on computers we have already noted as not needed to be backed up. Discovery runs on its own and adds machines that it finds. Even if we delete the machine, the next time discovery runs we are deleting it again from the list. We need to run discovery but once we make a decision on the machine, it should stop showing up. We are committed to Backup Exec 2012 but are really in a bad way with the product right now. So if you thinking of an upgrade, it might be better to delete you old version and start from scratch. Or wait. Hopefully this will prevent another user from going through this nighmare.
Tape set confusion ...
Good morning, I've some logical problem with BE 2010 R3: We use a Quantum i40 tape library with two magazines to backup our SAN. To organize the tapes we use the left magazine for the daily tape set (allways in the library) and the right one for the weekly tape set (changed every monday). So I've configured two jobs and two Tape sets in BE 2010 R3, one for the left with 5-day overwrite protection, one for the right with always overwrite. Everything is full functional, but sometimes BE seems to be "intelligent" and uses some tapes from the wrong tape set, one example from this weekend: The weekend job is configured to use the "right" weekly tape set / magazine. There are a few temporaly tapes and enough over writeable in the right magazine available - but it use one over writeable tape from the "left" daily magazine. Why? Every Job is configured to use one static magazine / tape set, why is BE changing this and re-join the tapes to different sets? Many thanks. Erik
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BE 2012 Beim Verarbeiten eines Backup-to-Disk-Befehls trat ein Fehler auf
Hallo zusammen, ich bekomme folgende Fehlermeldung im Eventlog eines W2k8 R2 mit BE 2012 SP1. Das Volume mit dem BtD Ordner ist 16TB grioß und hat noch über 1 TB freien Platz. Die Meldung erscheint im Sekundentakt bis zu 50 mal beim Sicherungsauftrag. BackupExec Job Engine schmiert dann ab und muss neu gestartet werden. Jemand eine Idee? Alle Artikel die ich gefunden habe beschreiben einen andren Fehlercode. Error=0 hört sich nach "könnte alles sein" an. Protokollname: Application Quelle: Backup Exec Datum: 06.09.2012 00:46:25 Ereignis-ID: 33808 Aufgabenkategorie:Keine Ebene: Fehler Schlüsselwörter:Klassisch Benutzer: Nicht zutreffend Beschreibung: Beim Verarbeiten eines Backup-to-Disk-Befehls trat ein Fehler auf. Changer: MoveMedium() Improper InitCode Found (B2DDrv1.4). Error=0 THX tcpipServer Agent out of date
I started seeing LiveUpdate Information About the agent for windows on at least one server does not have the most recent updates? To Install the most recent updates, on the Backup and restore tab, right click the remote computer that is out of date, and then select Update. 1.There is no indication on what server agent is out of date 2.After right clicking on each server on some I can see Update is grayed out and on some its clickable 3.Does this mean they are out of date and need to be updated? 4.What happen if I update the server will I have to reboot? 5.The server is Windows 2003 with exchange 2003 running on a cluster serves with 2 nodes 6.It seem each node might need the upgrade and the cluster seems to need 7.I am assuming after I update the active node the cluster will be up-to-date 8.Should I manually run LiveUpdate on the backup Exec server monthly and after an update I should update the clients?
