“Hi, I have a question about Disaster Recovery using Backup Exec System Recovery. We are delivering a solution to a customer. In this solution a number of servers are used. Each Server is backed up using Backup Exec System Recovery ver. 8.55. Two of the Servers are running as a Domain Controller...”

“Yet another newbie question here.  I will be running BESR 8.5 Desktop edition on a peer-to-peer network that consists of two computers (running Win XP Home) and one NAS device (Netgear ReadyNAS).  Can I install BESR solely on computer A and make a complete backup, including operating...”

“Hello, Is it possible to make a Cold image of a server with the restore anywere option, and restore it to a new hardware? or is the restore anywere option only available when i install the software on the server? thanks :) ...”

“I am testing BESR version 8.5 on windows 2008 small business server. I have been able to do a full indepent recovery point of my server ( which is split into 3 partitions ). When I try recovering this it recovers fine except for Sharepoint and Exchange as far as I can tell. ...”

“Hi All, I'd like to know if this is possible to do or not ? I've got several partitions, namely OS 50 GB, Database 500 GB and Log 150 GB not all of them is full, the total data usage is around 95 GB and I'd like to restore it into single partitions of 350 GB new RAID-1 LUN, How can i do this ? ...”

“Just to add to the conversation, I downloaded the installation files and am testing BESR 2010 with Windows 7 and Server R2. So far, simple backups and restores are completing successfully. I will post my findings regarding a restore to different hardware and a P2V test as well using the two newer...”

“I have some questions about encryption: 1. there's an option to protect the backups with a password without encrypting them. isn't it enough ? 2. there are 3 levels of encryption: standard, medium and high. what's the difference between them ? is it the length of the password...”

“I am/was about to install the BESR Management solution however on looking at the systems requirements in the readme file it says that 'Symantec installation manager and Symantec Management platform' both need to be installed.  Where/how do I install these components? ...”

“I remember using some key combination would present you with an advanced option menu within the SRD environment giving you other options during a Restore job, however I do not remember what the key combos were and now I can't seem to find those options. Can someone help me with this one. ...”