I created a job with the following schedule:

- daily full backup @ 1pm every week day
- weekly full backup @ 1pm every Friday
- monthly full backup @ 1 pm every last workday of the month

Whenever the last working day is a Friday the schedule operates as expected: the monthly backup runs. The weekly & daily backups are superseded.
However when the last working day is not a Friday the scheduler tries to run both the daily and the monthly backup. I expect it to run the monthly backup and supersede the daily backup.
Am I missing something here?

Hello,

i'm facing a strange issue, i followed the Symantec procedure but unfortunately i have a problem with my catalogs.

I am out of space on my C disk, so i start the BEUTILITY to change the catalogs path to a new disk. Everything gones fine, then i restart my BE services. I change the configuration of BE2012 to specify the new location, and i restart the server.

Now i have to issues:

1) When i want to restore, BE is unable to see backup sets previous 7 days, instead of before i was able to restore for months

2) Today, after night backups run, i can see that my catalog folder on C is not empty, as if the new backups write their catalogs in the old folder.

Please help, because the only "bad" trick i have in mind is to create shorlink in my old folder catalog

Dear ALL.

I have a simple question.

I took a test backup (with default settings) of one virtual machine on my ESXi.

When it finished I recieve a message like:

V-79-57344-38726 - Backup Exec failed to connect to virtual machine 'My machine' and was unable to collect the necessary metadata to restore individual application items. You cannot perform GRT-enabled restores of application data from this backup. You must install the Agent for Windows and the virtual machine tools provided by your host software on the virtual machine.

I understand what it mean that I have to install BE-agent to the guest OS and I'll do it. But why this server appears in list of servers?:

I have a Windows 2003 Virtual Machine that we back up the System State every night. My boss wanted to restore the System State from September to the particular server today in order to fix a problem that did not exist previous to November. The restore from Backup Exec 2010 R3 completed successfully and Backup Exec said to complete the restore, reboot the server. We rebooted the server and now it blue screens with a stop 0X0000007B. We restored the machine from a snapshot we took before the restore. Since it is a VM, we did not add any new hardware. This machine is not a DC.

Please let me know what needs to be done to restore the System State of a server.

To all,

I have BE 2010 R2. On a phyiscal old file server, the backup job rate is 1804MB/min for 660GB in backup size. The job takes 7 to 8 hours to complete to tapes. It's acceptable to us. I then created a new virtual machine on VMware as our new file server and installed the backup agent in OS. I copied the files over to the new server, less than 400GB, however, same backup job to tape, it takes about 12 hours at a job rate of 560 MB/min.

Looks like the backup job on VM runs slower than on physical server. Is it normal? Anything I need to tweak on the backup job.

Please advise

Thanks
Calvin

Hallo zusammen,

wir haben heute einen Windows Server 2008 R2 installiert (inkl. alle Windows Updates) und anschließend Backup Exec 2012 installiert. Auch hier wurden alle Updates und patches per LiveUpdate installiert.

Nun haben wir aber das Problem, dass im BE unter dem Reiter Speicher immer "Geräte erkennen" läuft... und das schon seit Stunden.

Dienste wurden mehrfach schon neu gestartet, aber ich weiß nun nicht mehr was noch falsch sein könnte.

Unsere Sicherungshardware ist ein Quantum Superloader 3 mit einem LTO5 Laufwerk.

Im Geräte Manager sind beide Devices installiert und erkannt worden.

Soo... nun hoffe ich dringend das ihr mir helfen könnt!!!

I keep getting this exception on my server's full/incremental job pair:

V-79-57344-33925 - Error: ShareWebDb.mdf is a component of a SharePoint server farm. It must be backed up using the Backup Exec Agent for Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server. Select it for backup from the Microsoft Server SharePoint Server Farms node.

I have a Farm job, runs fine.
I do have a support case with Symantec Tech Support, but so far they are dodging the real issue and feeding me busy work.

Months ago when I installed this box, I moved the SharePoint databases and such using the SBS Console, to the "D:" data volume.. among other file shares and such.

Beginning 12/14, the Full job (on Fridays..) threw this exception.  That is thrown, as is every DB and log file for SharePoint for CompanyWeb.. which comes with SBS.

The first suggestion by support is to feed them version info and ensure my LiveUpdate is up to date.  It is.

The second suggestion was that I should exclude the SharePoint Resources and corresponding SQL instances/dbs from my main job's backup selections.. they already were.  Any SQL on this SBS box I don't care about.. my LoB server hosting an ERP product, I do care about.. not an issue to exclude all of it.

The third suggestion was that I should exclude the LDF/MDF pairs from the backup selection.

Okay.. but that turns off SDR.  YES, they are on D:, not C:.

As an MSP, I have multiple clients and multiple cases of this problem.  Some clients, I have gone so far as uninstall SP from SBS.. a different side-effect which makes SBS cry, but not Symantec's problem I guess.

First problem.. why aren't any of the kb articles current with Backup Exec 2012 issues? Every situation I encounter has articles about former versions.. including the "updated" articles.

Second problem.. As mentioned, this is one among at least six clients with this issue.  We using a monitoring/management system and agent.. I really want these backups to SUCCEED.. else I am looking at them daily.. so saying "meh, you know it's alright, deal with it" is not a solution.  We are looking at other backup solutions at this point.. we already abandoned Endpoint Protection about two years ago.

While I wait for the next busywork request from Support, anybody got the fix?

Hi,

We have a Exchange server where we Installed Backup Exec and Backup Exec System Recovery on the same. We are getting this error frequently . Any idea is appreciated One concern can we install Backup exec and Backup exec system recovery on same server. Backup exec job is failure and BESR is success.The Symatec Backup exec error is

 Snapshot Technology: Initialization failure on: "Microsoft Information Store". Snapshot technology used: Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS).
 VSS Snapshot error. A Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) snapshot is already running on the target computer. Only one snapshot can run at a time.  Try running the job later

And in the windows event viewer I get

An attempt to open the file " for read only access failed with system error The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another processThe open file operation will fail with error -1032

Thanks.

Coming from years of Retrospect, and getting lost in my dup to tape stage with BE2012.  I want to make full backup to disk every Friday and dup that to tape.   I want to make differential backup to disk every M-R (saving last 4 days so I always have multiple diff copies) and duplicate only the day's differential to the days tape.  

Here is what I want on site

1) Disk copy of last 4 Friday FULL backups (so, 4 separate FULL backups)

2) Disk copy of Monday differential, Tues differential, Wed differential, Thursday differential.

Here is what I want sitting in a warm, dry, place offsite 

1) Friday tape (actually I rotate these so I have 4 different ones: 1st Friday of this month, 2nd Friday, etc)  - ONE full backup on each tape from that same day.

2) tape for Monday with differential ONLY that was just run on Monday.    Tuesday tape with Tuesday's diff to disk,  Wed tape, Thursday tape  (so these tapes are pretty short).   I could live with these being one Friday plus the daily differential, but tape is too small for every darn thing that is on disk.  

First part is pretty easy, but how in the world do I get part 2 w/BE?   Suggestions?  Am I missing something obvious?   In the past, this strategy has worked well for me (backups finish in reasonable time, and I have multiple full sources plus multiple diff if I ever need a bare metal restore).  

I'm in the middle of a recovery and used SDR to get me up to a certain point, but now I need to restore the system state from a non-SDR backup that occured later.

I boot to Directory Services Restore Mode but all my restore jobs fail because of account login issues. I came across articles that suggested changing all the services to Local System Account, but that doesn't resolve the issue. I see that under Login Accounts Backup Exec is configured to use a Domain account that obviously can't be authenticated in DSRM mode.

How and the heck to you restore System State with Backup Exec 2012?

Thanks in advance for any advice you can give!

I know there has been a lot of discussion and related articles for the system state backup failures. I have been through most of them and have had no success on a Windows 2003 Server with Backup Exec 2010. I have tried most of the fixes and suggestions and it completes fine with NTBackup.

I'm am still getting:

V-79-57344-65245 - A failure occurred accessing the object list.

The item System?State\Active Directory\C:_WINDOWS_NTDS\ntds in use - skipped.
V-79-57344-65245 - A failure occurred accessing the object list.

The item System?State\COM+ Class Registration Database\COM+ REGDB in use - skipped.
V-79-57344-65245 - A failure occurred accessing the object list.

The item System?State\Internet Information Services\IISMETABASE in use - skipped.
V-79-57344-65245 - A failure occurred accessing the object list.

The item System?State\Registry\Registry in use - skipped.
V-79-57344-65245 - A failure occurred accessing the object list.

The item System?State\System Files\System Files in use - skipped.
V-79-57344-65245 - A failure occurred accessing the object list.

The item System?State\SYSVOL\SYSVOL\8e7591ee-71bd-4513-a34938fc4d2c58e0 in use - skipped.

Disks are ok, disk space is ok, memory is ok, I have applied all updates for Windows and Backup Exec, Backups that do not include the System State run fine, System State backup with NTBackup run fine, I've tried AOFO, changed BEUtility settings, etc, etc. Nothing out there seems to help, so if anyone has any further suggestions I would greatly appreciate them.

Hi All,

I've finally gotten to my W2008R2 file server migration and thus a new install of BEX 2012.  I have re-attached my same Quantum LTO-4 tape drive.  I will start fresh (ie, no migration or upgrade/import from BEX10d).  From what I have been reading here, I believe I need to invetory and catalog the drive and setup my new backup scheme using the tape drive, but before I do anything, I want to make sure;

1. Is it best to use the Symatec drivers or the Quantum drivers since I have the choice?  

2. I want to be able to recover data if necessary, from the old tapes (that willl serve as past monthly/yearly full backup archives) collected on my old W2003, BEX 10d file server.  I'd make a "Restore Data" directory on the new server and restore to it if old files are ever needed.  Is it as easy as putting the the tapes into the drive, invetorying and cataloging them, and then seeing the contained data to restore?  

3. Still unclear on the ups and downs of using hardware vs. software compression and if they are widely recommended.  

Tnx in advance!

Dear Community,

I am not sure if this is a bug or not.

Scenario:

My backup (Backup vm daily) is set to backup to disk with an OPP and APP of 0 and then upon job completion, it is duplicated to tape.

Problem:

I am still able to see  my VM which is backed up 2 days ago. Why is that so? If my understanding is correct, I should only be able to see data which is backed up the previous day only.

This has been an ongoing problem all along but lately, my storage is out of space hence i have decided to post the issue here. Did I mis-configure or is this a bug or?

Advice appreciated please. 

I have attached the logs and my backup exec version is 2010 R3

Happy new year!

Hello,

Need help with most fragile release of Backup Exec,

All of sudden AVVI \ non GRT backup for a Unix machine started failling.

Nothing is changed with this machine or enviorment side (beside 2 hotfixes from symantec for BE),

I guess, it is just the attention seeking tendency of the BE, that cannot see me working on other Imp assignments.

V-79-57344-65304 - The Virtual Machine resource is not responding. Backup set canceled.
V-79-57344-65304 - The Virtual Machine resource is not responding. Backup set canceled.

Also BE remote agent service stops after that:

Faulting application beremote.exe, version 14.0.1798.0, faulting module ntdll.dll, version 5.2.3790.4937, fault address 0x0002a80f.

Thanks in Advance

bonjour,

j'ai installer backupExec 2010 dans une machine virtuelle , et je veux mon support de sauvegarde soit le robot,mon problème j'ai pas arriver a voir le robot de sauvegarde , comment je fais????

M.Salutations

Hello,

I have a SBS 2008 server with HP Storageworks Ultrium 448 SAS, and Backup Exec 12.5. The issue is that when the backup job starts - it says queued and stays like that for ages. If I try inventory - says no media servers available. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the backup tape using Symantec drivers - same thing. Tried newest HP driver - same thing. Tried the driver suggested from Microsoft updates - same issue. Repairing the backup exec did not help. The only strange thing that I noticed is that after every install, the device shows in Backup exec that it is in use. I tested the device with HP storageworks and library tools - it is visible, and does not report any issues. 

What can be the problem with that device, and is it possible for some reason the Backup Exec to be broken ?

j'utilise BackupExec2010 , je veux lancer un job de sauvegarde de la base exchange qui situe dans un autre serveur sachant que dans la console  je trouve pas les option d'exchange , comment je peux integrer l'option d'exchange dans ce serveur s'il nexiste (pour ne pas installer de nouveaux BackupExec sur le serveur d'exchange , je préfere lancer la sauvegarde a partir d'une seul console)

mon serveur exchange sous VM(sachant que le serveur phisique d'exchange est craché )

Hi,

I’m having a problem with Backup Exec and not backing up any jobs at all the moment – the job status states on all jobs (disks and tape) ‘Ready; no media servers are available’. I am running BE 2010 R3 with all latest patches and updates on a Server 2008 SP2 (x64) box.

This is both Disk backups and tape backups – I have done the following: -

·         Ensured all updates are up to date via LiveUpdate

·         Restarted all BE services

·         Paused ALL devices, disable and re-enable

·         Uninstalled the drivers for the tape drive and disk, restarted the server (a couple of times), re-installed the drivers again

Done the above to no avail and still comes up with that message (Ready; no media server are available)

On the devices tab, I noticed that the media server states ‘Discovering Devices’. After I restart the services or server, all the devices are offline and I have to enable them manually but still states this message ‘Discovering Devices’. When I attempt to perform a job, then it comes up with that message in the job status and hangs there and no way I know of getting rid of it.

At the moment none of my backups jobs are performing. Any other things I can try?

Thanks.

I recently installed Backup Exec 2012 and I am trying to configure it to backup 2 servers to one tape.  I want to do full backups.  I can successfully backup each server individually but I'm missing something when I try to back both up to the same tape.  So here is how I have things set up:

I have a media set named "Full Backup" with overwrite protection set to 1 hour and append set to infinte-allow append.

I have 5 tapes associated with this set.

I setup a backup job for "Server1" to run 1st and overwrite media.

I then have a job for "Server2" set to run later and append to media.

Both jobs are configured to use the "Full Backup" media set.

The 1st job runs fine.  However, when the 2nd job begins, it ejects the tape and says "remove media and respond ok."

Do I have something setup incorrectly with the overwrite or append settings?  What am I missing?

Thanks in advance.

OK, so... we set up a robotic library on our Win 2k8/Be2010 R3 system, and all testing and backup schedules working fine.  However, we can't get barcode labels working for a number of reasons, so we're skipping that for now.  Inserted a bunch of new tapes, initialized, inventoried, etc.  I then applied Media Labels to five of the 8 tapes installed, and let the backup jobs run.  Fast forward Monday morning, and the backup jobs have completely skipped the named tapes in slots 1-5, and started using the tapes beginning in slot 6.  All are identified as "scratch media", so can someone enlighten me on why just applying a name to a tape PREVENTS it from being used (new tape, Scratch Media, at top of slot rotation).  Barcode rules are shut off; tapes have barcode labels on them, but BE isn't reading them (not that it should if barcode capability is shut off).  I'm at a loss here.

Thanks.

Steve in Reno