Duplication of Backup sets to be scheduled
Hello all, I am trying to find a way in BE 2014, how to schedule duplication of backup sets. I am duplicatingone server (backup set)this way:https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.HOWTO98918 I have about 10 servers and I need to create monthly backup, which should consists of last full backup setof all servers backuped to Virtual disk (a link above is working only under 1 server). Only one possible solution how to backup month tapes is duplication backup sets for me. I do not want to do it manually each month, is it somewhere possible to create automatically? Thank you, RobertSolved1.5KViews0likes3Comments
Simplified Disaster Recovery (SDR)
Hi, If the D drive of my backup appliance 3600.R3 is almost full i.e. 5 TB and with this setup I create the SDR disk (simple disaster recovery disk) , how much size should I expect of SDR disk ? I wonder if the creation of SDR disk would take the backup of D drive as well which in my case is around 5 TB of data. Regards1KViews3likes5Comments
Backup Exec 3600 Appliance not supporting GRT on Server 2012 R2 and Exchange 2013
Hello Support, Can I get help with an issue on Backup Exec Appliance not supporting GRT with restores of Server 2012 R2, Exchange 2013, Active Directory, Sharepoint 2013, in fact all GRT required products. I know the appliance is EOL. I thought getting the R3 appliance would enable me restore GRT supported applications from Backup Exec 2014. Now I have to deselect GRT as I keep getting backup complete but with exceptions. The GRT works well in non-BE 3600 appliance environments. I saw the below in the hardware compatibitity list on page 10 Backup Exec Deduplication Disk Storage and BE 3600 appliance Non-GRT and GRT backups are supported and no staging is needed for GRT restores. But the GRT does not work on the appliance. Who else has this issue and has it been resolved?783Views0likes7CommentsDedupe 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?823Views0likes4CommentsSnapshot/Checkpoint before upgrading 2012 to 2014
Hi all, I am looking to upgrade the Symantec Backup Exec Appliance 3600.R2 from 2012 to 2014. I was wondering if there is snapshot/checkpoint enabling way available ? If upgrade doesn't go well or I am not happy with 2014, I could rollback to 2012 with same settings/Data and backupjobs ? I havea tapedrive attached to my appliance 3600, I was wondering if this could cause the upgradation process any problem ? BTW, How many of you have successfully upgraded Backup Appliance 3600R2 to 2014 ? and how did it go, was everything fine and smooth ? RegardsSolved807Views0likes6CommentsAD SDR Gives login error
Hi, In our customer place they are using Backup exec appliance 2012 There is Full system backup is configured with SDR for active directory Active directory crashed. and we tried to restore the entire system using SDR we gave domain credetials and we were able to browse the recovery points, and we are able to start the restore process, and we get the below mentioned error. the job failed with the following error: Backup exec could not log on the server with the logon account specified for it. The logon account does not have valid credentials. Ensure that the user name and passwords are correct in the logon accounts. we also tried using local administrator account. but same error. note: backup exec services are running under domain user. backup exec system account is running under local administrator account. we treid changing the system account password also. but no use. finally symantec engineer says its credential issue, and we are providing wrong credentials. We are totally confused. Need some support here. Regards Kamal775Views0likes3Comments
How to figure the best backup to the solution
Dears, first of all, I am so much new to this site also this brilliant technology. I will have lots and lots of questions I need your help with. The matter of fact I have a client need backup to his Exchange, AD and other Files. My question is how to figure the best solution for the client, when I have to apply one time backup or normal backup to disk or deduplication, how I can figure the optimum solutions. Thank you786Views0likes6Comments
Operating System not found when Restoring VM
Hi community I've some backup of Vmware VMs with Backup Exec 2012 Appliance, now i need to restore in another different server, the restore process finish sucesfully, but when i power on the Vm i obtain the message error "Operating System not found" . These are my scenario: The VM Source ESXi 5.5.0) is in Vshpere 5.5 Operating System: Windows Server 2012 R2 2 partitions ( C: et D:) In different datastore Array Controller : HP Smart Array B320i RAID Controller The Destination VM is: ESXi 5.5.0, I've only one datastore Array Controller : HP Smart Array B320i RAID Controller I need to restore about 10 VMs with the same settings and i've the same message Thanks1.2KViews0likes5Comments
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, matt1.5KViews0likes18Comments