Should I use the same storage for OS part and Backup DB part?
We are trying to set up Linux server for the backup server, and are using NetApp storage for the both OS part and Backup data part. We have two different type of stroage both from NetApp. One is FAS which has a lot of storage based functions, and support NFS, SnopShots, DR replications.The other one is E-serieshas less functions and primarily for the backup data images. Should I seperate OS and Data part , one on FAS, and the other on E, or does that matter. Thanks!Solved1.9KViews0likes12CommentsBackup Exec 15 -Tape Drive Solutions
Good afternoon, I am new to backups and need to setup a backup strategy. I am working in an isolated location and need to configure the backups for my site using a Tape Drive. I want to follow the company standard, but I cannot find any information on how to configure the software for what I need. I need help with the following backup configuration: I need to create pools under media sets per below. Backup-01-Daily Differential Backup-02-Weekly Full Backup-03-Monthly Full Also what I need is to create a pool of tapes that will be designated to a particular backup policy so when the BE asks for a new tape, it is using the same tape for the same purpose and can be added to as tapes fill up. Example: Daily Differential Backup will use Tape: LTO00001 – which I would like to label Daily instead of LTO00001 Weekly Full Backup will use Tape: LTO00002 which I would like to label Weekly Monthly Full Backup will use Tape: LTO00003 which I would like to label Monthly I have fumbled my way through to the point that I am getting backups, but I don’t want to have it so chaotic when it comes to all these tapes that seem to have part of this and a part of that on them. Again, I really need a step by step as I am not familiar with the fine tuning. Thank you in advance… Windows SVR 2012 R2 STD Backup Exec 15 – Ver.14.2. Rev 1180 (64-bit) Tape Drive: IBM ULTRIUM-HH6 SCSISolved590Views0likes1CommentBackup Exec 2014 Storage device pool SelectionMethod not working as expected
I have created a storage device pool include 2 disk storage devices 001 and 002. I have changed the selectionmethod=mostfreespacefirst using CLI (only support in Exec 2014). But it seems to be not working as expected. The backup job should target to most free space disk first, but it some time chosen the less free space disk then job failed because disk is full. The GRT backup jobs are not expandable to other storage devices. I have searched around the internet but have found no answers. ThanksSolved1.7KViews0likes12CommentsDLM doesn't delete expired data
we use Backup Exec 2014 for backup in our company. our dedup storage size 15 tb and in cas view show 9.78 tb used and rest of them free. but in windows explorer side there is only 770 gb free and still reduce this size. on the other hand backup sets shows lots of expired backup sets exist and no deleting for 3 months maybe later. Also ı found some documents for manual reclaimin and test it 100-200 gb size deleted. please help us any idea is useful. thanksSolved597Views0likes1CommentUnable to configure an Appliance - 5230
I have been involved in a task to move backups to Netbackup Appliances in our estate. For the first time I am seeing a very strange problem which is stopping meto configure a media server to a master server. The errors is : Appliance> Media x - [Info] Checking the pre-requisites... - [Info] Validating the network configuration. - [Info] Checking if external storage is present. - [Info] Validating master server name 'x'. Master server communication check .... :[OK] Name lookup check ........ :[OK] Firewall/Port check ........ :[OK] Master server access pre-check ....... :[OK] Restarting NetBackup services ........ :[OK] Master server access check ........ :[OK] EMM server access check ........ :[OK] Master server reverse access check ... :[OK] Version compatibility check ........ :[OK] - [Info] The system time of master server 'x' and media server 'x' differ by 1 minutes. - [Info] Using x as master server. - [Info] Acquired lock on the storage. - [Info] Looking for existing storage configurations... - [Info] Found existing storage configuration. Attempting to import the configuration... - [Info] Successfully imported the storage configuration. - [Info] Upgrading storage configuration to the latest version... - [Info] Updating disk names... - [Info] Mounting the 'Configuration' partition '0'... - [Warning] Unable to mount the 'Configuration' storage partition. The 'Configuration' storage partition may already be mounted. - [Info] Moving appliance configuration database to the Configuration partition. --------------------------------------------------------------- INFO: Adding the following servers to the NetBackup configuration SERVER=x --------------------------------------------------------------- - [Info] Configuring media server on the appliance... - [Info] Restarting NetBackup services. - [Error] Failed to add appliance 'x' to NetBackup database. - [Error] Failed to add 'preibp01' as media server to EMM on 'x'. There are numerous things which have been tried here inclusing removing the DNS Entries for these servers from DNS and making Local Hosts entry on our master/media servers. nbemm logs are attached below on high verbosity though it doesn't says much. Any Clue techis ? Symantec case has been raised but just wondering if you guys have ever experienced this issue.Solved875Views0likes1CommentBackupexec 2014 Verify Job very slow
Hello Community I have got an Storage of 2 TB on a Windows 2012 Server. (Storage Pool, Parity, 1 Volume) My Exchange Server should be backed up there. But after the job finishes the verfiy job will never end. Same for the catalog job. It seems not able to finish the job correctly and fails after a while (22+ houres.) The exchange Server ist not big (around 140 Gb). With BE 2012 this worked fine. Please help me out here. Tipps allready done: Seperate Verify jobs Changed storage from GPT to MBR (Suggestion from Symantec) Delayed catalog not an Exchange backup updated Agent No matter what I change, the Verify or Catalog will fail. Runs around (0.03 MB per Minute. The Backup runs smoothly with 1400 MB/min) On my secound storage (Windows 2008 R2) the backup runs perfekt. Any help is welcome. Cheers1.2KViews0likes5CommentsHow do I use remaining space on an existing disk for Backup Exec Disk Storage?
Hi. I have a disk that I use to store some backups from another process (copies of snapshots from some important VMs). I would like to use the free space on this drive for a Backup Exec disk-based storage container. I've decided 1,200 GB will be sufficient for my non-BUE files, so Backup Exec can have whatever's left. When I try to create the storage in Backup Exec, Backup Exec screws the math up somehow, thinks the drive is full when it's not, and won't let me write backups to it. Here's the drive before touching it with Backup Exec (2012, fully patched): Here's the files currently on the drive that need to stay there: So I fire up Backup Exec, go to the storage tab, click "configure storage", choose "disk-based storage", then "disk storage". I'll name the new storage, then tell it to use a local disk, pick the right disk in the dropdown (L: 1,121 GB Free): Click "Next", and there's nothing else to configure: This is what gets created. Notice there's a "Low disk space" warning, despite greater than half the disk being free. How doez I math? Here's the details sub-tab of the newly-created storage. Everything looks OK, except that the low disk warning should happen at 25% free: Now, I'd like to use the "Disk space to reserve for non-Backup Exec operations" setting to tell Backup Exec that I'm going to be using 1,200GB of this drive for other things. Apply that, and all the numbers in the "Statistics" section seem OK: Go back out to the summary, and there's no space free. Funny thing is, the Low Disk Space warning has disappeared: So, how do I do this? It seems Backup Exec never passed grade school math, and is subtracting the total used capacity on the drive from the "Total backup storage" number it comes up with (I think by subtracting the reserved number from the total capacity of the disk). It must think "I just created this brand new disk storage, and there's 900GB of used stuff on the drive. Must be backups in my freshly-created, empty, disk-based storage area. DERP!!!" Has anyone had any luck with this? Thanks!996Views0likes4CommentsAppliance 5230/Media server/BMR
Hi, i have configured appliance 5230 as a media server, I have check BMR admin guide that the BMR option can be enabled from GUI if the appliance configured as master server, what about if the appliance is configured as a media server? Thanks ThamerSolved1.8KViews0likes8CommentsBackUp Exec with NetApp E-series Storage Array
Hi, I have a Windows 2k8 R2 server on which BackUp Exec is installed and the server is connected to a NetApp E-series 2600 storage array through SAS. BUE is not recognizing the storage array and I would like to perform a backup of some volumes on the storage array to other volumes on the array. I got a warning message that tells "BUE did not detect an installed H/W provider that is required for this option. Install the vendor supplied virtual disk service H/W provider to each of the storage arrays that you want to use with the BUE". I wanted to know if my storage is supported by BUE and if so, what are the workarounds to get around this issue. Thanks, Vidya Suryanarayana820Views0likes3Comments