BackupExec / BEMCLI / New-BEVMwareSelection / IaC
Trying to select all VMs in a folder: This works, but selects a single VM, not all VMs in a folder: #$v01 = New-BEVMwareSelection "DC\Folder\NameofVM" None of these work: #$v01 = New-BEVMwareSelection -Path "DC\Folder" #$v01 = New-BEVMwareSelection -Path "DC\Folder/" #$v01 = New-BEVMwareSelection -Path "DC\Folder/" #$v01 = New-BEVMwareSelection -Path "DC\Folder\*" When BEMCLI does not crashout, it all looks ok in the GUI, as it maps the folder name correctly, but when job runs, it says no VMs selected and nothing to backup. When BEMCLI does crashout, it cant find a VM named "*". 🤷♂️ Did "someone" forget to add wildcard selection to the logic itself? The Help file implies this should work, or have I got the wrong syntax? Help appreciated, as its part of IaC to script/build the backupserver and its jobs.
Virtual Machine Backups Suddenly Got Slow
Hello, In December, our backups of VMWare full virtual machines suddenly slowed way down. At that time a staff admin recreated datastores and bumped the VMFS version from 5 to 6. There were no other changes that I'm aware of. Agent based backups run fine. Only Virtual machine backups run poorly now. It doesn't matter whether I backup to disk or tape, they never achieve a rate above 300 MB/min. Ideas on where the bottleneck is? Something is limiting the communication from Backup Exec to vCenter. I have a case open with support, but they are not figuring it out. I run BE 21.4 on a physical Windows 2016 server. Backup targets are NAS appliances and direct attached SAS tape drives. The server has teamed NIC that connect to three VLAN's: data to servers, second to NAS appliances, and third to underlying SAN appliances that host our VMWare environment. Our VMWare is old: 6.5. Thanks for your help. Ray
Backup Exec Architecture for VMWARE
Hello, Please guide me what's best way to deploy vertias backup exec for VMWARE . Can I install 2 instances of Backup Exec 1 on physical server and 1 within VM. if my VM environment have issues I can use Physical one to restore VM's . The virtual backup exec server will speed up the backup operation by using hot add features. do I make sense? what's the role of media server?
[closed] Block level backup of encrypted VM
Hello, We have encrypted our VM thru the VM encryption module provided by VMWare since 6.5 version. As it is not supported by BE 16, we are doing now file level backup. Is there some news regarding an update of BE 16 that will allow block level backup with encrypted VM ?
Backup Exec 16 cannot recover single elements from virtual machines using GRT
I'm using Backup Exec 16 to backup 2 Vmware virtual machines with Active Directory and Exchange 2013. I have noticed that even if i have enabled GRT in the job options i can only restore the whole vmdk. I cannot restore single elements from Active Directory or Exchange using GRT. Both virtual machines have the backup exec agent installed. I'm using the default Microsoft VSS provider to backup the virtual machines. Jobs successfully complete without errors. I cannot understand why the backups aren't granular.
Backup Exec 16 - Temporary VMware folders are not cleaned from the Backup Exec data directory
HI All, So we started with Backup Exec 14 few years back and I've updated to BE 16 last week with latest patch due to following issue when Symantec could not resolve it. Issue: When backup up VM's, there are lot of Temporary folders been created in folder C:\Program Files\Symantec\Backup Exec\Data. (Folders name include VM's name and date ), and number of folders been created keep growing everyday. Troubleshoot done: I've logged a call with Symantec and for a week they did troubleshooting and today an Advanced tech called me and advised that this is a known issue and only work-around is to delete these folders manually ? Now I have had the same above issue while we were on BE 15, with all the patches installed, hence why I quickly upgraded to BE 16 to see if that resolve the issue. Symantec advance support tech directed me to this article ( https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.000023219 ) which is according to the article was an issue on BE 2014. So I don't believe that Backup Exec 16 will have this now, will it ? And I can't accept an answer been deleting these folder manually every day as a solution. Does anyone experienced this kind of issue ? CheersvSphere 5.1 Support Update
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Exchange 2010 Backup : Updating Catalogs Very Long
When backing up Exchange Server 2010 it appears to backup the data with zero issues. However, it takes 20+ hours to run a Differential backup due to the length of time it takes to update the catalogs. This was an issue for us in the previous version of Backup Exec 2010 R3. The issue was not consistent though. For instance; in 2012 we had an issue in late July and early December. The issue in July seemed to correct itself? The issue from December is still ongoing. The backup rate is at about 282 MB/min. Whereas while updating catalogs runs at about 1 MB/min. This definitely appears to be the issue as the entire backup is less than 10GB. The full backup runs normally and does not take an extended period of time while updating catalogs. For all Exchange backups we are running GRT. Any help would be greatly appreciated.