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Backup Exec 12.5 or 2010?

Backup Exec 2010 has just dropped, and I'm about to implement a new BEWS infrastructure, complete with CALs and new central servers. When I specced this up last year, I ignored 2010 and focused on Backup Exec 12.5, since it's a mature product. In…
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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 servers before people arrive to work. We do…
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Backup filling up

We have a 400GB tape drive and use Symantac Backup Exec 12.5. Looking at the history from two months ago (before I was here) the jobs were finishing at ~355GB, but in that time it's jumped by 40GB to ~395 — in the danger area for running out of…
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Backup Exec 2014 Setup

So I'm really rusty when it comes to configuring Backup Exec 2014 to back up to tape library. Current config Server 2012 HP 1/8 G2 AutoLoader LTO4 via SAS Card Can someone help me out. enter image description here Before powering on the Autoloader,…
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BackupExec storage error after migration

I've migrated my BackupExec 15 installation to a 2016 Server by following this Document. If I try to run a Job I get an error saying something like No writable idle devices are available The target device is a B2D drive on a Synology NAS accessed…
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Looking for a new backup solution to replace dying tape drive

We're running Windows Server 2003 SBS and another machine with Server 2003 Standard on it. The SBS server is about 7 years old running pretty much 24/7 - a HP server of some description. We have an Ultrium 448 cycling LTO2 400GB tapes daily and…
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Google Cloud auth access key secret key?

Apologies for probably a basic question. Getting started with Google Cloud and require the access key and secret key to test online backups to Google Storage using Backup Exec 2015, however I can't find any clear instructions on how to obtain/create…
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Filebackup failed - In event log the "Virtual Disk Service" has stopped (at nearly same time)

We have an Windows 2008 R2 server which is used as file server. At the weekend my colleague makes a file-backup via backup exec. We do this on many servers but only this one make problems. We have this issue for about four weeks. Backup Exec starts…
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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 make any sense of Symantec's website.
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Backup exec LTO tape capacity shows as 17.8GB

I have come across administering a Backup Exec 10d system, and all its tapes show a Total Capacity of 17,8 GB while showing a Used Capacity of e.g. 281GB. The tapes are LTO2 so they should have 200GB uncompressed, which matchs the 281GB shown above,…
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ESXi 5.5 HDD and Tape drive paths

I got a new Dell server with a PERC H310 (2 HHD in RAID 1) and a SAS 5/E adapter for a Dell Power vault 4 tape Drive. I installed ESXi 5.5 with a windows 2k8R2 and a Debian virtual machine. I'm having a lot of troubles with Backup Exec. Sometimes…
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VERITAS Backup Exec does not accept tapes

VERITAS Backup Exec 8.60 Rv 3878 does not accept brand new Sony SDX3-100C tapes using a Compaq AIT 50 GB tape drive. I want to introduce new tapes to an ancient backup system as described above on a Windows 2k machine. I tried the "Inventory" and…
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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 only access to the Datastores, and we use SAN based…
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Determining what media Backup Exec selects

I have set up three backup jobs with Backup Exec 2010. It's a standard GFS, using a 24 slot Hp tape library. Right now we are just using 17 tapes. Slot 1-6 are daily, 7-10 are weekly and 11 and up are monthly. In BE I've created three media…
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Do these files look like virus remnants?

We've been having Backup Exec issues related to a corrupt file within SYSVOL on an SBS 2008 server. An anti-virus scan removed a file (the same one BE was failing on) from within the scripts folder as a trojan. The following files are still in the…
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