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OST (openstorage) backups vs. Backup to Disk folders in BackupExec
Can someone explain the advantages (and disadvantages if there are some) of using OST (Symantec's Openstorage) for backups vs normal "Backup to Disk" folders in Symantec BackupExec?
We have the ...
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Am I able to restore individual mailboxes/messages when backing up VMDK of Exchange 2010 on ESX with BackupExec?
We are running Exchange 2010 on a VMware infrastructure, and backing up with Backup Exec 2010 using ESX licenses.
I was led to believe that even though we are backing up entire VM guest images, ...
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Backup Exec “Removable Backup To Disk” with Rotating Disks?
I am setting up a backup system using the latest Backup Exec 2010 R3, and I would like to use usb hard drives as a backup media. I'm trying to figure out the best hassle-free way to introduce a disk ...
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Backup Exec: Seeking guidance on hands-off backup-to-disk strategy
In a nutshell:
SBS03 server with Backup Exec 12
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Two USB drives, each 1TB.
USB drives are swapped weekly.
A weekly full backup and 4 days of subsequent backups just about fills a ...
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Getting an 'Access Denied' error when trying to create backup job for Backup Exec 10D
I guess the easy answer to my question is 'Something doesn't have the correct permissions'. =P.
I read Backup Exec b2d NAS, but that didn't really answer my question.
I have poked around the Admin ...
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Backup Exec runs out of tapes… because it hasn't scanned
Our particular tape drive inventories tapes based on barcode. Until it's done inventorying new tapes, it registers in BE as "Robotic door open" and we can't run a scan to update the tape inventory in ...
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How to duplicate a backup set from one media server to another
I really honestly can't figure out how to do this.
It's easy enough to open Backup Exec and tell it to duplicate the data on one local device onto another local device. What I cannot figure out how ...
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How can I determine Success/Failure of Jobs in Backup Exec database?
I'm trying to programmatically gather backup history from the Backup Exec 12.5 database. I think I can get this from the JobHistoryDetail table, but that's a guess (Please correct me if I'm wrong on ...
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Use of Append for Backup Exec 10.1d - Two Jobs to One Tape
We are running a Windows 2003 SBS server and Backup Exec 10.1d
We currently have one job which backs up both hard drives then the exchange server, but recently we have had problems with VSS ...
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Back up server in separate domain
I currently have a backup server on one domain, say domain A. This backup server has Backup exec 11d installed on it, and is responsible for backing up numerous other servers in the same domain.
I ...
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service for restoring tapes
I've got 30 to 40 LTO-1 and LTO-2 tapes that we used with BackupExec to backup our data. About a year ago we moved to another backup solution (Veeam).
My LTO drive is dying/dead, and I'd like to ...
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best way to backup Exchange 2003 using Symantec Backup Exec 12.5
I'm a newbie admin for an Exchange 2003 server running on Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard, all storage on the server is local, no DAS, SAN or NAS. The server is being backed up to magnetic tape using ...
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Is there any reason why BackupExec 2010 cant find any Windows 7 machines?
If I install RAWS (from the backup exec directory) on Windows XP machines, my backup exec server is able to find them quite easily. Is Win7 not allowing RAWS to publish?
Thanks
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Backup Exec not overwriting 'IMG000000' folders
I'm using Backup Exec 12.5 to backup to Removable Backup-to-Disk Folders.
As part of this backup, it's creating folders in the root of backup disk, called IMG000243, as well as the .bkf files in ...
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Is it possible to backup a guest operating system in Hyper-V R2 with Backup Exec 12.5?
Is it possible to backup a server with just a remote agent on the guest operating system on a Server 2008 R2 host server? If it is possible would there be any major overhead?
I understand Symantec ...
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Do I need a Backup Exec 12.5 Agent to backup a shared folder on a workstation?
Have a couple of workstations with shared folders that I'd like to backup. Backup Exec 12.5 sees them in the selection list, but failed saying that the Remote Agent couldn't be contacted:
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Backup Exec Remote Agent for IA64 architecture
Does anyone know what is the best way to obtain a "Backup Exec Remote Agent" that works on the IA64 architecture? I have the install CD for version 10d, but it appears to be incompatible.
I can't ...
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Networked removable storage
I'm looking for ways to improve my off-site backup strategy, and a big hurdle is making it easy to remember to take the media off-site every day.
Rather than having to go into the server closet to ...
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How to use Symantec Backup Exec with S3 Amazon Storage?
Is there any proven efficient way on how to use Symantec Backup Exect for Windows Servers to use S3 as one of the Devices to backup to. Even if it means to use a plug-in to make it work.
thanks!
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Information Store failing to be written to backups
Here where I work we use Symantec BackupExec 11D to handle all of our server backups. recently had an issue crop up on the weekend where the backups got hung up. Ended up restarting all of the ...
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Backing up Windows 2003 Server that has Certificate Authority
I want to export and migrate a Certificate Authority CA role from a Windows 2003 machine to a new copy of Windows 2008 R2 virtual machine. I was told that I cannot have 2 CA roles on the same network ...
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Strange Symantec Backup Exec behavior
On one of our main servers (a Poweredge R510 running Server 2008 R2 Standard 6.1.7601 SP1 Build 7601), we run Symantec Backup Exec 2010 R3 (Version 13.0 Rev. 5204, 64-bit).
Each night, we have a ...
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Back up Event Viewer folder using backup exec without installing the remote agent
How to backup a shared folder without installing the remote agent?
I used and enabled the "Enable selection of user shares" but an error appears "Failed to connect to computer"!
I appreciate any ...
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Strategy for backing up TFS 2008
I have Backup exec 2010 R2 running on Win2008 R2, and I need to backup TFS 2008. I have about 10gb of TFS database files. From msdn articles I have read, all backups of the TFS databases must be time ...
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NetApp NDMP backup with BE 2010 R2 works, restore fails
I'm having some issues with a new Backup Exec 2010 R2 installation. I configured a NetApp FAS2020 as an NDMP device and want to backup files from the SAN to a tape drive connected to my backup server. ...
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Exchange 2007 restore - Backup Exec Unable to Attach to a resource
I have been struggling with this one for months! Grateful for any advice.
The setup is a windows 2003 server network, 4xservers on the domain. Two exchange 2007 servers (only one with mailboxes still ...
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BackupExec first setup - is this all I need?
I have purchased BE 2010, an SQL agent, an Exchange 2010 agent and 12 server agents. Symantec gave me a link to their website, but no matter with which serial number I log in, I get the same download ...
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Best practices for system state backups with Backup Exec
As our virtual infrastructure keeps growing with more virtual servers I've noticed that our backup job (both weekly and daily) has grown to the point where I have no maintenance window left to patch ...
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What is included in a 'Server-State' Backup, and is it enough?
When using Veritas Backup Exec and selecting System State as a backup item, what exactly is backed up? Veritas seems to refer you to Microsoft, and Microsoft tends to be equally vague about what this ...
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Mixing jumbo frames on Vsphere 5 ISCSI network
We have a HP C7000 blade chassis with a HP Lefthand SAN solution. The ISCSI network is in its own VLAN and is using the standard MTU of 1500.
We also have a backup exec 2012 server that has read ...
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Backup Exec 2012 - Global exclusions by directory name?
I'm kind of a n00b with BE, so forgive me if this should be obvious.
With other backup systems in the past, we have had a general policy of excluding any folder named DoNotBackup. This provides a ...
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BackupExec 2012 File System Archiving - Access is denied to Remote Agent
Gentlemen,
I've been struggling with a Trial version of Symantec Backup Exec 2012 for about a week now. It was installed as an upgrade to our 12.5 license, and the setup completed with no issues. ...
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Symantec Backup exec 2012 for SBS - moving data to offsite drives
Can anyone advise how best to run the following strategy, or even if it is possible/sensible strategy?
I am looking to backup an SBS server using BE2012 where the data is backed up on a weekly full ...
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Backup Exec has lost compression ability
We are running Backup Exec 11d (Version 11.0 Rev 6235)
The server is hooked up to an HP Ultrium 440 tape drive.
It has been performing very well for a few years now, it has processed about 3-400 TB.
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>Lotus Notes Backup Exec 12 restore options - Which one?
What do these restore options in backup exec mean when restoring a Lotus Notes database?
Retain original IDs
Select this option to restore the original database IDs.
Assign new database ID
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How to backup Backup Exec 2010 job setup, job history, catalogs etc
How do you make a backup of the job setup, job history, catalogs etc for Symantec Backup Exec 2010 Small Business Server edition and how do you restore them again afterwards? Do I just need to backup ...
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Low performance between VMware and backupexec
I have a dedicated HP backup server, connected to an HP autoloader(SAS).
The server is connected through 1 Gbps (network interfaces bridged) IPv4 to the network, where I from BackupExec 2010 R3 ...
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Restoring from BackUp Exec to 2003 Recovery Storage Group
We seem to have some issue with recovering Exchange 2003 data via BackUp Exec 12.5 to Recovery Storage Group.
We have set-up a dial-tone Exchange database, and now trying to restore latest backup to ...
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Backup Exec ~> Using Removal media to move to another server?
We have an old application that requires a Backup Exec 9. I have this backing up straight to tape currently. We are looking at doing a Disaster Recovery plan that would allow us to have a second site ...
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Backup Exec 10 - Network connection to the remote agent has been lost
Okay, so I have 4 remote offices, all running off of a 3mb ethernet connection. Two sites are part of a WAN and 2 sites are using 3mb connections over a site to site tunnel.
I am using Backup Exec ...
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BackupExec 12 + RALUS - VERY slow backups
We use Backup Exec 12 and the Remote Agent for Linux/Unix Servers (RALUS) to backup a large
RHEL5 system. For various reasons we need to do a daily working set job. These working-set jobs run ...
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Anybody know where I can find a “how to” for upgrading Linux remote agents to Backup Exec 2010?
I haven't been able to locate one and it's not as simple as deploying from the server app like it is for Windows.
Any help would be appreciated.
Nevermind:
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How do I set a folder range based on the first letter for a selection list in Backup Exec?
Using BackUp Exec 12.5, I want to create a selection list that includes a range of sub-folders from a folder. So all sub-folders that start with A-F would be included, for example. I'll have ...
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Schedule a Scan in Backup Exec 12.5
Is there a way to schedule a "Scan" in Backup Exec to find out what tapes are available by barcode? Or do i have to schedule an inventory instead?
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Hyper-v back-up
We are trying to decide a good backup strategy for our new Hyper-V setup.
We have 3 VMs on Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V host. We installed Symantec BackupExec 2010 on the host and have the Hyper-V Agent ...
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LTO3 tape volume appears to be smaller than 800GB
I am using BackupExec and it is asking for second tape. I am using LTO-3 ultrium 800 gig 2:1 compression tapes and it stops and asks for secound tape at 558,916,035,547 Byte count. Is my setup wrong ...
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Cannot get Backup Exec to backup Exchange
I have a media server, Windows Server 2008 SP2 running Backup Exec 2010 R2. The SQL and other Windows agents work but I cannot backup the Exchange 2010 server running Windows Server2008 R2. I have the ...
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Automatically Snapshoting AWS instances (or other back up strategy)
I just realized that my aws instance count has risen into the double digits. I'm currently backing portions of my folders and dbs and moving them off to a backup instance.
What I think I should be ...
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Unchanging/Passive content backup procedure
What is the simplest of ways to backup my data:
It's a 1.5 TB disk (25% free now)
I have LTO4 tape and media 800/1600
I have Symantec Backup Exec
The data is not changing, only a very short % is ...
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How do I retieve a file that was backed up with Norton Backup Exec?
I have the Norton Backup Exec Agent installed, configured, and working on one of my Windows Servers (2003). I don't know anything about the configuration, but I can answer questions if someone needs ...
