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Backing up and restoring remote servers

I have backup exec 2010 R2. Going to be upgrading to 2012 here in the next day or two. I have several servers onsite and 4 remote servers. To backup the 4 remote servers to the tape library device I have takes way to long as it is slow over the…
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Symantec Backup Exec can't see network shares

I have a CentOS 6 host with a NFS export where I have stored some virtual machine backups. Now I want those backups to tape for archival. I have mounted the share to a drive letter under Windows 2003 R2 and can see the contents of the share. I…
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Backup Exec - How does it see Overwriteable media?

I have a Backup to Disk folder (on a USB Drive) which does a full backup Monday through Saturday, inclusive. It runs at 23:00 each day, but the drive is only large enough to fit 5 backups. (Each backup is about 360GB, the drive 1.81TB.) If I set the…
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Backup Exec - Differential Backups and Overwriting

I have a setup for a customer whereby a full backup is conducted on a Friday - then Monday through to Thur, differentials are carried out. Now, there is a single media set for these two jobs (I understand that is obviously not the best way, if even…
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Trying to backup Exchange Mailbox Store using Backup Exec 2010

I am trying to backup our Exchange Mailbox Store using Backup Exec 2010 R3 but when I select "Microsoft Information Store" and view the mailbox store it says that it is 0 KB in size. Is there something that I need to do for it to actually show the…
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symantec Backup Exec 2010 vs 2012

I have a work group of 30+ computers and would like to backup to a Buffalo NAS. I don't want to buy agents for each computer's but to install just the administrator console on one machine and run backups to the NAS Storage. I have decided to go with…
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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 or do i just need to get larger tapes?
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Can a backup server HBA be zoned into 2 tape drives without confusing applications?

| tape drive 1 | ---- | switch 1 | ---- hba1 | backup server | hba2 ---- | switch 2 | -----| tape drive 2 | Our backup server has 2 FC HBAs. Each is zoned into a different drive on the back of the tape library via a separate switch. Each tape is…
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Backup Exec thnks tape drive with Exchange Backup is a server

I have a tape drive with a Exechange Public Folder backup set that I wish to restore to Exchange Server 2010. Backupexec sees the dataset and can access the tape drive for file selection. It keeps trying to access the tape drive as \EXCH1 and is…
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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 added a week, and in terms of restore is not very…
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Backup Exec & Multiple Servers

So I'm looking at our current Backup Exec system and am running into a very basic issue with only a stupidly complex solution as far as I've seen on their site. Servers back up one at a time. We have a selection list that has all of our servers on…
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Symantec Backup Exec and connecting to IPC shares?

I am hoping to be able to have Symantec Backup Exec (2010) connect to some Windows machines via their IPC shares for backup. It seems to work for a couple machines I tried, but several others it's not. For example, I was able to add a user defined…
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Setting up Symantec Backup Exec weekly full B2D job; How to set OPP so that you keep two weeks of backups?

I am trying to setup Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 to do a weekly full backup to an external USB drive. I would like to keep the last two weeks of full backups for the following reason: Example: If I happen to have a physical disk failure while my…
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Backup Exec: How to restore Sharepoint content database to filesystem?

I have a problem with Backup Exec 2010 and a Sharepoint 2007 site. I wanted to restore some deleted files from a documentlibrary with Backup Exec. However this was only partial successfully. For some files i get the error V-79-57344-33938. For…
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Media server on DC or on standalone media server?

Our organisation currently has Backup Exec 11d installed on the Windows Server 2008 r2 domain controller. I'm currently performing a domain migration which involves transferring all roles etc from the old DC to the new DC. Initially Backup Exec was…
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