Hello!
My customer uses MS DPM and wants to know where Symantec Backup Exec can beat it. They use a lot of MS technologies: Windows Server, Exchange, SQL, Sharepoint, AD, Hyper-V, clusters and so on. They use EMC DataDomain as data storage devices and HP tape libraries.
Is there any comparison between modern versions these two products (BE vs DPM)?
I'm trying to figure out if it is possible to perform a bare metal recovery with the system that a client has in place. They are currently using backup exec 2010 R3 to backup a 2003 domain controller. That domain controller crashed. They have spun up a VM to restore active directory to - unfortunately nobody has the active directory restore password. As a last ditch attempt to get this domain controller back online, we were considering performing a bare metal restore to the VM. HOwever, I am not really familiar on the exact process and what is required. They were were backing up the entire domain controller to a tape drive. What do I need to look for to see if it is even possible to perform a bare metal restore of this server? Is there a KB article that outlines exactly how to perform a BMR through BEX? Thank you.
Salve a tutti,
ho un problema nell'effettuare un restore di alcuni dati importanti.
Avevamo schedulato i backup dalla sorgente X su un disco S.
Dopo un po' di tempo abbiamo avuto un problema su quella sorgente X e abbiamo migrato i dati su una macchina Y.
Quindi quando tento di fare il restore non riesco perchè la risorsa non è più disponibile.
Ho provato a creare una macchina virtuale con stesso Ip e stesso nome macchina, ma con una cartella mappata come disco S.
Ma il sistema non riconosce il disco S mappato come un disco valido e non effettua il restore.
Sapete se c'è una soluzione a questo? Si può cambiare il percorso di destinazione?
Ecco l'errore che mi restituisce: http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?pag...
Good morning,
I am planning on upgrading from Backup Exec 2012 SP4 to Backup Exec 2014 SP1.
After I ran the Environment Check, I got one 'Failed'.
The Microsoft SQL Server upgrade may fail because the account security identifiers (SIDs) of the SQL service group accounts created during the Backup Exec SQL instance installation cannot be mapped to the SIDs currently assigned to the SQL service group accounts
The link for more information points to http://entsupport.symantec.com/umi/V-225-303, but there does not appear to be an article there.
Can someone please point me to the correct article?
Thank you.
Hola amigos.
Tengo el siguiente inconveniente.
Necesito ejecutar Backups Diferenciales/Completos en Linux. Pero los backups mediante "Fecha de modificacion" no me sirven, ya que aveces copio archivos a los directorios y estos tienen una fecha anterior a la de la copia completa, y no se toman en cuenta en las copias diferenciales. Existe alguna forma de utilizar el Backup mediante Bit de archivo en Linux? U alguna otra alternativa?
Muchas Gracias!
Saludos!
Hi,
I am running the beta version of Backup Exec 2014 on a test VM. Now i have purcahsed the BE 2014 so I need to install it in a new VM with the same catelog and settings.
Please guide me.
Hi
We have been using BE 2010 for backup to tape over the last few years.
We had been using the BE 2010 True Image Restore (ADBO) in order to restore the contens of directories to what they were at the time of any full or incremantal backup - this is critical for us.
Beofre i'm upgarding to BE 2014 - do i still need the True Image Restore in BE 2014 - or can i use the Point in Time restore for same result?
we use Full backup once for each of our projects, and Incremantel backup on daily basis for about 3 month (till that project ends).
Using True Image Restore in BE 2010 - i was able to open up the restore wizard, choosing the latest incremantal backup, and using latest incremantal backup, i was able to restore any one of the full/incremental backups since the job was created,
Will i able to do the same using the Point in Time restore in BE 2014?
Can somebody explain to me why we can't cancel jobs that are queued up but not yet active? It's extremely annoying and a waste of time to have to wait for jobs to become active before they can be cancelled. I'm just curious if there's some technical reason why this capability isn't available or what the reasoning is behind this decision. It's seems utterly absurd but I'm looking forward to being convinced otherwise.
Sres:
Que hacer para empezar a respaldar un Exchange 2013 no dejando de respaldar los buzones de un Exchange 2010 en Backup Exec 2014.
Say:
What to do to start backing up an Exchange 2013 does not support leaving mailboxes on an Exchange 2010 in Backup Exec 2014.
Gracias de Antemano por su respuesta.
I have one backup job set for doing all my servers backup which runs on a daily basis. Having this problem for a while now. plz help me out here.
Hi
Regarding licensing of BE 2014 Remote Agent for Windows - does BE license comes with one remote agent included?
If i have one media server and two remote clients that i need to backup, should i purchse the main BE license + 2 Remote agents or the main BE license +1 remote agent?
Thanks
Hi
Using BE 2014 - i want to create:
For the first week - one full job for each day of the week
From the second week and on - one incrematel job for each day of the week.
Each day will have its own tapes.
When i configure the FULL jobs - i dont have an option to schduale the job to a specific time without hour/day/week/year interval.
I only have the options for spcific time with intervals, run now, no schduale.
I do have that option in the "One Time Backup" - but that way i can't configure the incremantal jobs for the second week and so on.
Am i missing something?
Thanks
Hi
We have some tapes that were backup using True Image Restoreon BE 2010.
I want to restore the data rom those tapes on another server that also got BE 2010 installed.
After placing those tapes in auto-loader of the second server and exute a Catalog opertaion on them,
Will i be able to see the True Image Restore information on the second server?
i.e - when restoring thsoe tapes on the second server, on the selection list of the restore, will i see all the snapshots from each backup and in all snapshot i will be able to restore the entire set by chossing the latest snapshot and not only the files that were backup in the specific snapshot?
Thanks
Hi!
I changed the password of System Logon Account.
After this, jobs on Vmware Hosts(there is vCenter cluster on hosts) failed:
Job ended: Monday, October 13, 2014 at 9:54:28 AM Completed status: Failed Final error: 0xe0000f04 - The Backup Exec server could not connect to the remote computer. Ensure that a Backup Exec agent is installed and running on the remote computer. If a Backup Exec agent is installed, ensure that it is the correct version. Final error category: Resource Errors
On Hyper-V hosts jobs works.
I logon to Vmware Console with System Logon Account's new password successfull.
Hi,
I have installed Symantec Backup Exec 2012 small business edition running on Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise edition. It was running fine all along and today morning i found an unusual message "QUERY FAILED" in storage tab which was kept on Backup Status(current media) to see the backup status.
I tried to come to the storage tab to see whether the cartridge is online,but it shows the message "QUERY FAILED". So I restarted the Backup exec service which failed to start and recorded the following message.
An exception occured starting remoting services for Backup Exec Management Service: System.ServiceModel.AddressAlreadyInUseException: There is already a listener on IP endpoint [::]:50104. Make sure that you are not trying to use this endpoint multiple times in your application and that there are no other applications listening on this endpoint. ---> System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: Only one usage of each socket address (protocol/network address/port) is normally permitted at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.DoBind(EndPoint endPointSnapshot, SocketAddress socketAddress) at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Bind(EndPoint localEP) at System.ServiceModel.Channels.SocketConnectionListener.Listen() --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at BackupExec.Management.Server.RemotingManager.ActivateHosts() at BackupExec.Management.Server.ServerCommon.Start()
I stopped all the services and restarted , but when it started It was asking for username and password when entered says the credential/username is invalid, check whether backup exec server is running. SQL server is running, port 50104 shows LISTENING and doesn't have ESTABLISHED status; it has so many TIME_WAIT.
Nothing has been changed in the server. The backup exec server is running locally and backing up to tape which is connected to the server.
Regards,
Anishk
Hi,
I am running backup exec 2012 and I am having an issue where the licensing is being incorrectly reported by the Symantec Backup Exec License Assessment Tool Report. It has listed one of the servers 4 times under the Agent for Windows and which gives me a does not meet licensing requirements error:
Agent for Windows N/A 7 8 No, need 1 licenses
Which is not correct as one of the servers is listed 4 times under the Server/Device name.
Where can I look to try and rectify this?
Hi,
I have a copy of Backup Exec 2014 V-Ray Edition running on Windows Server 2012 R2.
Although it did work fine, I can no longer backup some of my clustered Hyper-V virtual machines. On both of my Hyper-V Server 2012 clusters, the backup selection is empty with no VMs showing. The backup job now fails with:
e000942a - Backup Exec did not find any resources to include in the backup. Check the backup selections for this job to make sure it includes resources that are available for backup.
I've updated Backup Exec to SP1 and have updated the agents, and I've tried rebooting the hosts and removing/reinstalling the agents but it doesn't help. I have a Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 cluster that backs up fine, and all other backup jobs (SQL, file etc) are also working fine.
From the backup selection window, I can see the vhd files, but nothing is showing under the HA Virtual Machine heading. If I browse to the individual hosts, then I can get a list of the files on the local drives, and the system account being used has full admin permissions. I've also tried adding the system account to the cluster permissions and as a Hyper-V administrator on the hosts.
I've run out of things to try now. Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks.
Hi,
I'm setting up a standalone file & print server, which will run Backup Exec 2014 with a tape library. As it's running Backup Exec on the server it's backing up, rather than a remote server, do I still require a Windows Agent license?
I've tried googling around, but can't get a definitive answr, and just seem to get the Windows Agent install requirements.
Thanks
Ben
Hi,
Just a quick query really.
I currently have the following options set:
Job History 90 Days
Job Logs 30 Days
Truncate catalogs Unticked
I am trying to understand the implication of making changes to these settings.
At the moment if I view a job history which is older than 30 days, it only has the Job History tab so I know the settings are working.
As far as I know the Job Log is basically a more indepth version of Job History. (Is this right?)
What I am trying to understand is the impact of the truncate catalogs option. (I am fully aware I can regenerate the catalog from source media BTW!)
I am currently backing up to tape. If I need to restore there are currently two ways I look for data to restore:
I select the correct tape where I can see the Backup Sets tab and view the backup sets contained on the tape. If I click a backup set I can then view its contents.
The reverse way using the server I want to restore to where I can then search etc. I am assuming the catalogs are what is being searched if I select search but if I also manually browse..
If I set the catalogs to truncate over say 90 days what exactly do I lose?
Does BE remove all references to what is on the tapes completely... as in no backup set and no contents, or is it just the contents that disappear?
Hello Experts,
we are going back to Backup Exec ( Version 2014 ). Goal is to backup all virtual machines to Disk Storage and have a copy on tape.
The environment is:
Vcenter 5.5 with 2 ESX Hosts, HA Cluster, SAN over FC
HP Proliant DL380 G5 Server with Windows Server 2008 R2 and Fibre Chanel HBA that has Read Access to the SAN Volumes ( LUNS )
Backup Exec 2014 with latest SP1. We know that this Hardware is not recommendet for Deduplication, Performance is not important for the first step.
We have the deduplication option licensed and vmware agents + application agents for exchange, dc, sql
We checked the Administrator Guide, Deduplication Whitepaper ( Backup Exec 2014_Deduplication Option_White Paper ), Vmware Whitepaper ( backup_exec_2014-protecting_vmware )
Blueprints
Symantec Backup Exec 2014 Blueprints - VMware
Symantec Backup Exec 2014 Blueprints - Deduplication
So we think it should work like this
Three Group of vms to Backup
Windows VMs ( Agentless Backup ) with VM GRT enabled ( to restore file or folders if neccessary )
Windows VMs ( Agent Assisted Backup ) with GRT enabled for Applications ( for example Exchange Server, DC, SQL Server ), there is a Backup Exec Agent running to assist
Other VMs ( Linux or other OS ) without GRT enabled
All 3 Groups should be safed to one deduplicaton target in the night ( Backup Window 10:00 pm - 07:00 am )
Its local Storage ( SATA RAID ) in the Backup Server
On Weekend there should be a Full Backup of all 3 Groups
Mo-Fr Differential Backup
Over the Day the Backup data will be copied to Tape
Has anybody such a constellation in use ?
We start testing with a test vm ( windows Server 2008 R2 ) to the Deduplicaton Folder.
We have Problem to Backup the VMs to the Dedupliation folder if the GRT Option for VMs is enabled ( no Application GRT )
We always get the Error E0009579
Granular Recovery Technology (GRT) backups of Virtual Machine (VM) to deduplication storage fail with an error "0xe0009579 - Unable to copy the virtual machine disk using the VMware VixDiskLib"
There is an Article http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH168488
When we disable GRT it works but we cant restore file or folder from the vms.
The Article is for Backup Exec 2010 R3, we use Backup Exec 2014 with SP1.
If we do the job to a normal B2D Folder it is working with GRT for the VMs
We also found this
Verify of GRT VMWare backup fails with "Unable to copy the virtual machine disk using the VMware VixDiskLib" and reports that the VMDK is corrupt when targeted to Deduplication folder
Completed status: Failed Final error: 0xe0009578 - Unable to copy the virtual machine disk using the VMware VixDiskLib. Final error category: Resource Errors For additional information regarding this error refer to link V-79-57344-38264
Its another Error, not the same, but the behavior is like we have.
http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH209472
So for what i am looking is a expert who has expierence with vmware backups and deduplication.
Best Regards