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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: V-79-57344-3844 - The media server was unable to connect to…
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MSSQL Backup Question

I'm currently taking over for someone who was in charge of backing up over 250 servers on different platforms, until we hire a replacement. The main question I have is: If we use a backup software, such as Symantec backup exec, does this perform the…
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Network Restore of OS to Non-System Drive - is it possible?

I've got an intriguing goal with an equally intriguing problem to overcome: how to restore an OS to a set of blank disks attached to a running computer. This computer is running the very OS I want to restore to the blank disks, and I when the…
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Backups failing due to access problems

We're using Veritas Backup Exec 16.0 to run backups of our servers. We've upgraded from Backup Exec 2010 and have been firefighting problems since then trying to get the schedules to run smoothly. Veritas Support have generally be utterly useless…
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Data Compression

We have an HP StorageWorks 1/8 G2 Autoloader using LTO-6 tapes working with Symantec Backup Exec 15. I've set the backups which are going to tape to use hardware compresison "if available, otherwise software" compression. When I look at the…
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Crash Dump error 0x80070057 - Windows Server 2003R2 SP2 BSOD BackupExec related

as of last night we have had an IBM Server running 2003R2 BSOD a couple of times and I have been trawling the net for answers ever since. I've pinned down what triggers it and that is a BackupExec job which has ran without error for as long as I can…
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Is there a way to measure or change how fast a Windows Server 2012 rehydrates data that it previously deduplicated?

Since the deduplication option was enabled on the Windows Server (currently at about 40 percent deduplication rate overall), the speed of the Backup Exec 16 job became much slower - less than 30 percent of the speed observed previously. Apparently,…
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Backup Exec Server is establishing connection to unknown host outside network

Backup Exec produces a large amount of entries in my firewall. It tries to connect to a host outside my network on TCP Port 135 which is normally used for RPC. As I noticed this I logged on that server and found ot that the associated socket is…
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Backup Exec 2012 - Can only see Server 2012R2 Quorum Node

I'm currently trying to get BE2012 to backup or restore to a 2 node failover cluster running on Server 2012R2. The cluster itself only serves a single file server role, which is behaving itself and is visible to clients in the test environment. The…
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Backup Exec - One backup to two locations

We are running Backup Exec 11d (I know, I know... next year's budget). We'd like to set up backups to go to the current backup server, which hosts a tape drive, and to a remote server which has a large RAID we've set up as our "off-site" backup. The…
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Backup Exec Monitoring Tool

Does anyone know of a monitoring tool for Backup Exec 12 and BESR 8.5? I'm sick of going through all the email alerts or logging into servers to check the status of my backups. Servers are Windows Server 2003 and XP workstations
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Backup Exec and SharePoint Gotchas

We have Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 installed and configured to back up our SharePoint servers. The farm consists of: 1 virtual web/search/Central Admin server (soon to be extended with a second WFE) 1 physical indexing server 1 virtual SQL…
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Error restoring files from backup using backup exec 2010 error code e000fee1

Hopefully some had experiencing same problem like me using symatec backup exec 2010 r2. We are using this software for backup and it not had problem until now, but lately when I want to restore files from incremental backup it always fail with error…
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Can I install Backup Exec in a guest

We want to have a single physical machine as host, having several guests. One of the backup solutions we're considering is using Backup Exec to backup to external disks or tape, having Backup Exec installed in one of the guests (and agents in the…
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Restore User or Backup exec settings after demoting

Just don't mess with a server when you're not feeling focused, because you can end up something like i did: I have a server (WS2003 R2) which acts as backup server (backup exec 2010). We needed a domain for Cluster services, so we decided to try…
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