BE 2012 and Data Domain w/ DDBoost
Background: So we have Backup Exec 2012 and two Data Domain DD620's. We have all the required licensing including the Data Domain DD Boost and replication licenses. I have installed the Open Storage Technology (OST) plugin 2.5.0.3 as suggested for the version of BE. Both DD boxes are visable and connected to my BE server. I have foud some documentation and a video that explains some of what I am looking for but not entirely and most of it is for BE2010. The BE 2012 documentation from DD is not up to date yet. I am trying to setup backups as my tape drive has had enough and is not working properly. Anyone I have talked to just says you backup to it, then I continue finding little things that need to be done. No verify, no precompression, some said no deduplication in the job, other said server side dedupe because DDBoost manages it with OST plugin. Too much information and not enough people knowing what to tell me. The DD weekend support guys don't know the software titles they just know the hardware. I need help now unfortunately... Question: What settings do I use for Backups? I have Active Directory, Exchange, SharePoint, and SQL agents.VSS Writer "retryable error" Exchange 2010 Windows 2008R2
I have seen many posts about this error, but most of them are for Exchange 2003 or 2007 or Windows 2003. This is happening on: Backup Exec 2010 R3 Windows 2008 R2, SP1 Exchange 2010 SP1 RU4 Preferred Server list has passive node first "Let Backup Exec automatically choose ..." is enabled AOFO turned off GRT enabled Error happens repeatedly, but not consistently Backup- DAGName2V-79-57344-65233 - AOFO: Initialization failure on: "\\DAGName\Microsoft Information Store\DataBase1". Advanced Open File Option used: Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS). Snapshot provider error (0xE000FED1): A failure occurred querying the Writer status. Check the Windows Event Viewer for details. Writer Name: Exchange Server, Writer ID: {76FE1AC4-15F7-4BCD-987E-8E1ACB462FB7}, Last error: The VSS Writer failed, but the operation can be retried (0x800423f3), State: Failed during prepare backup operation (7). The VSS Writer list always shows "retryable error" for the Microsoft Exchange Replication Writer, and the condition only occurs on this database, which is the largest of 5 databases, at 500GB, and is the last DB to be backed up. Followed all recommendations found so far: AOFO turned off, tried re-registering VSS, but a re-boot of the passive node is the only thing that works ... sometimes. Again, no consistency, not even in the failures or successes. The past 2 nightly backups failed while the previous 3 ran successfully. Re-booting the Exchange server(s) to fix this error is ludicrous, as well as costly to our user community. Anyone have an idea of wheer/how to pursue this?
BackupExec & EMC Datadomain
Hello; Nowadays I need to implement a deduplicated disk based backup&recovery solution for a clustered vmware system which is hosting exchange 2010 and AD servers... I have to decide how to position deduplication and backup software solutions together. In some articles I see that Symantec Backupexec and/or Netbackup is used with EMC Datadomain EMC Datadomain has deduplication feature and it's used also as a backup/recovery software. If I buy EMC Datadomain, will I need to another software Symantec Backupexec or Netbackup ? Both Backupexec and Netbackup has "deduplication" feature. If I prefer Backupexec, what's the advantage of Datadomain as an additional appliance?
Outlook is automatically Sending Draft emails
We have Windows 2000 SP4 and Outlook 2003 SP2 with the Enterprise Vault Add-in. We also have PGP_Desktop installed (with email functionality disabled). Some users are reporting that their draft emails are automatically sent...it only seems to happen with E-Store items... The below is the following steps I take to replicate the sending of drafts: •Save two e-mails in the Drafts folder •Turn Outlook offline •Reply to a estored e-mail •Turn Outlook back online (The estored e-mail will stay in Drafts) •Reply to another estored e-mail All drafts will then send, including the ones saved addressed to myself. (PGPstate that they are not touching the email, merely recording it was sent/received). Any ideas anyone? Is this a known issue?
Restore Job Failed - Error e000848c
Trying to do a test restore of a single message on a exchange 2007 mailbox, recieveing the error "e000848c - Unable to attach to a resource. Make sure that all selected resources exist and are online, and then try again." Backup jobs seem to run fine, just not the restoring. Tried the following link: http://www.symantec.com/business/support/knowledge_base_sli.jsp?umi=EvtID=V-79-57344-33932 But none of them seem to apply to my problem. The target restore is the same exchange server and storage groups. Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks. Tim