Upgrade backup appliance 3600 R2 to R4
Hello, I have received a notification from symantec that the upgrade for the backup exec appliance R2 and R3 to the new R4 is now available... anyone knows of any documentation or steps or notes about the how to perform the upgrade? the appliance currently uses windows server 2008 R2 and backup exec 2012. what will be upgraded exactly? the backup exec. version or both the OS and the backup exec.? appreciate any input on this.Solved1.6KViews0likes3CommentsBackup Cluster Hyper-v Subnet
Hi, Forgive my English first, I have configured a Hyper-V cluster with two nodes and a storage cabin. When I make a backup of the cluster gives me a different subnet always bug, there is a specific procedure for backing up a cluster of hyper-v on the other subnet. Version agents, Cluster Subnet Backup Cluster subet production Name server CSV Cluster thank you,Solved1.1KViews0likes4Comments
Backup agent on windows Cluster
Hi, I have a Windows cluster running MS SQL server. I want to install the backup agent on it in order to take the backup, I am wondering if I will install the agent on each node using the node name or I will install it on the cluster using the cluster name ? RegardsSolved1.3KViews1like3CommentsAppliance WebUI does not display information
Hello We are using BE3600R2 and whenever we using WebUI we are unable to find details related to Disk Raid Battery It says No disk No Raid and No battery. Please find the attached screenshot for more information. Thank you in advanceSolved912Views1like3Comments
Backup Exec 3600 appliance backup VMware vSphere 5.5 issue
Hello Symantec Team, I have a client who is facing some backup challenges. Infrastructure: Backup technology: Symantec Backup Exec 3600. This is an appliance that comes with a Windows 2008 OS preinstalled. Virtual infrastructure: VMware hosts 5.5, multiple hosts in a cluster, multiple VMs all Windows OS[2008,R2/2012] Issue: We have been unable to backup hosts using the Symantec Backup Appliance. We have a number of Centos hosts that Symantec does not support using the file level backup so we wanted to back up the complete image. We tried doing this and was unsuccessful. We had a dhcp server that actually crashed when the backup ran at night and resulted in a network outage the following morning. There is also a physical host that we are unable to backup . As we discussed most of our servers are not part of our enterprise AD domain. We have a few that is part of a standalone domain that the network group uses. Ultimately, we would like to have all the hosts in our vmware environment backed up. There is also a critical standalone host that runs Windows 2003 that we need to backup as well Any ideas to resolve this issue? Please provide an action plan, key points to focus, and thoughtsSolved472Views0likes1CommentDedupe 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?823Views0likes4CommentsBackup exec vss provider
Hi, Could someone tell me what is the function of "backup exec vss provider" ? How does it benefit the backup process ? It is set to manual in the services of my virtual machine (windowsserver 2008 R2) ? When I try starting it, it complains about "The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion" RegardsSolved3.8KViews0likes2Comments
BackupExec Appliance 3600R2 with CASO
The existing environment now that i have a BackupExec Server attached to the fiber tape library and i purchased Backup Exec appliance and CASO for the Physical server to enable the Physical server to manage the appliance and delegates jobs to it. I get an error everytime i tried to add the backup exec appliance as MBES for the Physical server. I want to double check if this solution is applicable and if anyone has any ideas regarding the steps have to be done to perform this solution. On the other hand , I want to notify that the physical Backup Exec server databse is SQL 2008R2 Express497Views1like2Comments
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!Solved1.1KViews0likes5Comments