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How to deploy Backup Exec via the AWS Marketplace

How to deploy Veritas Backup Exec on AWS Marketplace.Veritas Backup Exec provides simple, rapid, and secure offsite backup to AWS for your in-house virtual and physical environments and protects cloud-based workloads in AWS. Veritas Backup Exec helps...

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How to deploy Backup Exec via the Azure Marketplace

How to deploy Veritas Backup Exec on Azure Marketplace.Veritas Backup Exec provides simple, rapid, and secure offsite backup to Azure for your on-premises environments and protects cloud-based workloads in Azure. Veritas Backup Exec helps customers r...

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Useful links for Upgrading Backup Exec

At its most basic, the upgrade procedure for Backup Exec is simply running installation media for the most recent version on an existing Backup Exec server. Backup Exec 15, 16 and 20 can be upgraded to Backup Exec 21 with this method. Article 1000443...

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rdmchugh by Level 1
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Freeze / stuck to one tape

Hi all, I experiance a really enoying problem with Backyp Exec 15: I have some jobs that freeze without any error during backup (mainly simple file backup from windows server to tapes) If i don't cancel them they keep runing for days and never end...

Roger69 by Level 3
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Tape media labels overwriting

I'm having a very odd issue. I've done a fresh install of BE15 on Windows Server 2008 R2 with a new Quantum LTO-7 Drive and new Quantum LTO-7 tapes.  I'm trying to get all my media labeled. I've created one custom media set called LTO-7 Dailies and ...

BackupExec 12.1.6 not using entire tape

Support, This has been an on-going theme with this product for years. Not a criticism but an observation. I am a Commvault guy by trade. However, this piece of software, BE12, I have worked for in previous iterations years ago. My primary issue isn'...

Duplicating Exchange backup sets to tape is extremely slow

I have a fairly simple setup where I do a full Exchange (2013) backup once per week with nightly incrementals in between. The Exchange data is backed up over the network to local disk storage on the backup server, then duplicated to tape. GRT is enab...

bernath by Level 0
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Re-cataloging a tape of virtual machines

Most of our backups are virtual machine backups that are then duplicated to tape. I recently had to re-catalog one of or older tapes and Backup got errors indicating that it didn't have enough room. I need to figure out how much room I need, hence th...

Backing up to 'All Devices' does not work

We have a Dell Tape Library that has 2 drives that can be backed up to at the same time. And, we have a dozen jobs that run in the span of a weekend. My quandary is this...in the 'Job Setup' properties and the Destination for 'Device and Media', th...

Remove Specific Folders From Backup Sets?

Hello all,   I'm working with a client who has a specific need for 2 years worth of retention for *almost* all of their backup sets. ~7 months ago, we configured a job to capture their critical data with a 2 year retention period. For the last 7 m...

Backup job hang with no error code

Hello All, Since 2 weeks, i have an understanding issue with my Exchange server (2013). I updated it with Tuesday Patch (liste below) and update my exchange server from CU6 to CU12. My job hang randomly (2 Go, 10Go, 100 Go ...) with no error code. I...

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The remote agent crash suddenly!!

Good morning,   We have a issue with a remote agent. Suddenly Crash with the next events: Source: BEDBG Event. ID: 259 A process crash has been detected. Faulting application: beremote.exe 14.2.1180.2113 Faulting module: beclass.dll 14.2.1180....

eliasml by Level 3
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Resolved! Backup assemblies

Dear colleagues! I need your help and some solution for a problem. I backup some folder of GAC for SharePoint Farms 2010/2013: %windir%\assembly and %windir%\microsoft.net\assembly. Everything is ok, no errors, all folders' structures are ok. But w...

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Resolved! Backup Exec Feature Licensed but not Installed

Hi All, From the license information in BE i was able to see as below its says Licensed YES but Installed NO. Does this mean Library expansion is not possible ? i mean using more than one drive ?                         Feature                     ...

Nayabsk by Level 6
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VMWare ESXi VM Backup

  I am testing ESXi 5.5 VM backup using Backup Exec 15 The backup is creating a hot add device on my Backup Exec 15 VM All my VMs to be backed up are on the same host 1. Is it neseccary to have the Hot Add feature enabled - it eats up a lot of di...

Remote agents crashing or hanging since FP4

Many all of our remote agents on 2008R2 and 2012 R2 servers are crashing since FP4 Remote systems with SQL 2008 R2 seem to be the most common and very frequent.  Here is an image sample of what we see almost every day from a host of servers:

Driver needed for Exabyte Magnum 2 x 24

I am needing the driver for Exabyte Magnum 2 x 24 Tape Library running on windows 208r2 - backup exec 2010R3.  Can someone point me to the URL for me to download the driver.

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BE restore job is failing

Submit-BEFileSystemRestoreJob command is failing with error. command is: Get-BeJobHistory -FromLastJobRun -Name 'backup_definition_Full_275417-Full' | Submit-BEFileSystemRestoreJob -RedirectToPath C:\temp\tdir13778 -name restore_job87808_11113 -Fil...

Resolved! using BE 15 for ARCserve restore

searching for a restore solution (catalog rebuild) for ARCserve has led me to Backup Exec. i chance upon someone's workaround on what i'm trying to accomplish now. i have a 2004/2005 backup in DDS4 media created by ARCserve 2000. now that i have rev...

manatee by Level 6
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BE15 - B2D Verify hangs indefinitely, E_PVL_MEDIA_NOT_AVAILABLE

I have a specific job that has now become stuck on Job Status  "Active: Queued - Verify" while backing up to Disk a total of 5 seperate times with the same issue, although each has occured unpredictibly, on different days, weeks apart. The job will ...

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Server recovery - lost disks

I am involved with the recovery of a Windows SBS 2011 server that has serious damage on the boot drive caused by a faulty disk. I've had Microsoft support looking at it most of today and looks like we need a full restore. The server has BE 2012 SBS v...

Restore job reaches 100% on the status but keeps going.

Setup: We are utilizing 2 servers to restore; our backup server LABMGT00 and our SQL Server LABDB01. I am running Backup Exec 2014 on a Windows 2008 R2 server, and SQL Server 2012 standard on Windows 2008 R2. This setup is completely isolated and wa...

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General Questions about Backup Exec configuration

Hi, We're considering Backup Exec as a backup solution and trying to find out if it fits our needs. We have 3x remote sites. Each site has a Windows server (2008 or 2012) and a handful of Windows and Mac clients. I've been flicking through the admin...