The Known Issues feature is now LIVE!
The Symantec Connect community asked us to list the known issues so every end user could see what we are aware of and what fixes are in progress. Here’s the original Idea post that got a boatload of votes. Well, the day many of you have been hoping for has finally come.
Interested in usability studies for Backup Exec?
The Backup Exec team is committed to enhancing your user experience with our software, and we are pleased to invite you participate in usability studies. You will not be asked to purchase anything. Typically we conduct usability study sessions remotely. This means you will use Backup Exec running on our test machines controlled conveniently from your own workstation. It’s easy and requires only an hour of your time. If you are interested in participating, please send us an email with your contact information including your name, email address, company name and job title. You may be contacted by one of our usability engineers for additional information so we can schedule you for future studies most relevant to your areas of interest. Thank you for your interest in shaping the future of Backup Exec!
New Symantec System Recovery 2013 Out Now!
IT organizations facehardware, software and database / application downtime, lasting short periods of time to shutting down the business for days on a regular basis. Without adequate planning and preparation, any type of downtime can compromise a return to operations and cause financial damage as the ability to generate revenue is lost.
The Concept of Snapshot Levels and Quiescing
In my struggles to understand various instant snapshot technologies, I have come up with the following way to help me better understand the fundamental concepts behind all snapshot products. Please note that everything covered here are deliberately oversimplified. I also refer to LUNs, disks, volumes and partitions interchangeably.
Ten Backup Mistakes in a Virtual Environment - Part 1
With VMworld this week, much of the news and attention is focused on all-things-virtualization. Virtualization is truly a game-changing technology and one that most IT pros are already neck deep in. The benefits are obvious: increased utilization rates, increased business flexibility, lower hardware costs, better utilization of computing resources, reduced space requirements, power andVeritas System Recovery 18 On-Demand Webinar
This one hour on-demand webinar will look at how organizations can recover from system loss or disasters in minutes, not hours or days.Veritas™ System Recovery 18 helps protect your organization proactively by capturing automated backups without disrupting productivity.System Recovery the Easy Way
Have you ever experienced a complete system failure and then realized that you don’t have the correct hardware to be able to recover the failed system to? Or have you ever experienced a system failure and found yourself scrambling to get that system up and running when time was of the essence?
The Next Big Thing is Already Here
We have seen some bombastic marketing over the last several months in the data protection space. One vendor stuffed 26 women in a Mini Cooper, and Veeam called platform proliferation “the next big thing” when they announced intentions to deliver Hyper-V support in December of 2011 – despite it being available for the past three years from Symantec.
FAQ: Difference between BESR and BE.
Some of the main differences between Backup Exec and Backup Exec System Recovery: 1) Backup Exec is a backup and restore software, whereas Backup exec System Recovery is a recovery software. 2) BESR canwrite data only to disks not to tapes, whereas BE can write to both. 3) BE works at file level whereas BESRworks at block level.
