Script to show the amount of Front-End data protected by a Backup Exec Media Server
Script to run localy for each existing Backup Exec Media Server (versions 2012 or above) or where the Backup Exec Database is located. More and more Backup Exec customers are moving away from the legacy licensing based on agents and options to a Capacity based Licensing. As is the most easy, flexible and cost effective option to protect your data, having unlimited agents and options available for deployment. Capacity Licensing is based on FETB (Front-End Terabytes), the amount of data at source to be protected. (more details). With this tool existing customers will be able to estimate how much data are they currently protecting with their Media Servers. ZIP password: backupexec
How to export the list of all Backup Exec Remote Agent servers in Backup Exec 2012
The following scripts will enable you to find all servers with Remote Agents installed and will export to a .csv file. It is strongly suggested to use these scripts on a test environment first: 1. Download the "ServerList.zip" file. 2. Extract it to a folder. 3. Move the folder to a server where Backup Exec Database (BEDB) is stored.Performance Tuner for Backup Exec VMware backups
Symantec Backup Exec offers the possibility to back up virtual machines from a VMware vSphere environment directly by the hypervisor. To increase the performance of these backups, it is possible to manipulate the number and the size of the buffers, Symantec Backup Exec uses by editig some registry values.Holiday List Creator for Backup Exec
Backup Exec 2012 and 2014 offer possibilities to import holidays into the configuration in order to exclude those days from having backup jobs run. Unfortunately, there's no possibility to use wildcards in the import files, which makes the creation of the import file quite difficult. Therefore we've created a tool, that provides a GUI to create such import files.Script for chaining jobs in BE 2012
This BEMCLI script is a follow-up to my article https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/use-bemcli-chain-jobs This script makes it easier to set up the jobs that you want to run in sequence. 1) Get the list of jobs You can get the list of jobs that you want to run by running this cmdlet and pipe it to a text fileImport tape to first empty slot in a robotic library
Following a discussion in the forum, attached is a pair to scripts to import a tape in the portal to the first empty slot of the library. It is a refinement of script first posted by JaapT. This script caters for installations which do not use barcode labels and has less disk I/O's.
Re-Register VSS on Windows Server 2008
Many of us are facing issue with Windows Server 2008 Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) failure while backing up. The batch file will re-register the VSS DLLs, you need to reboot the server after running the script. (Applicable ONLY for Windows Server 2008 and 2008R2)
