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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, Backup Exec would allow granular recovery of individual…
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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 that). Can anyone tell me how I can determine…
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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 the SQL database or is there more involved? As a…
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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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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 other solutions to backup the event viewer folder…
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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 backupExec services to unjam it. The backs now are…
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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 complaining about the Advanced Open File Option and the…
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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 now have a server on another domain which requires…
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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 restore the data from these tapes, probably to a hard…
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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 connected to my virtual environment, runnning a fully…
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Is backing up SQL Server data and log file supported?

i know that Microsoft SQL Server nowhere documents that it is safe, correct, valid, or intended to backup the data (.mdf) and log (.ldf) files (*while SQL Server is running). i.e. you have no idea what state those files are in - they're not your…
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How to backup Symantec Backup Exec's catalog?

I'm running Backup Exec 12.5 on Windows Server 2008 Standard x64. The Server is connected to a Dell Powervault 124T with a SCSI interface and i run backups for the server itself and other jobs that backup other servers across the LAN. Now backup…
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Backup Exec: Seeking guidance on hands-off backup-to-disk strategy

In a nutshell: SBS03 server with Backup Exec 12 installed. Two USB drives, each 1TB. USB drives are swapped weekly. A weekly full backup and 4 days of subsequent backups just about fills a drive. After swapping a drive, the next Weekly Full job…
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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 Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 running on Windows…
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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 stamped the same or restoration will be…
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