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Backup and Archiving Community

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Information Anesthetic: Taking the Pain out of Backup

Simon Jelley

Symantec Employee

It seems like businesses are looking at modernizing backup like it’s a trip to the dentist: too time-consuming and painful, and always costly! So they end up taking shortcuts, hoping that the cavity of data loss will never occur. But just as advances in dental techniques have taken much of the...

Posted: 05 Feb 2012 | 2 comments

Endpoint Management Community

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How To Install Symantec Management Platform 7.1

ziggy

1. Summary This article details the steps I took to install the Symantec Management Platform (SMP) 7.1 on a Windows 2008 R2 SP1 VM, with 8 CPU's, and 16GB Ram. These steps worked flawlessly for me, but should be reviewed with your architect first to ensure th...

Posted: 12 Dec 2011 | 25 comments

Endpoint Virtualization Community

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Virtualized Internet Explorer 6 for Windows 7

karl_bunnell

Symantec Employee

Adoption to Windows 7 is accelerating and migrations from prior versions of Windows to Windows 7 are really starting to pick up steam. One significant impediment to migrating to Windows 7 is the lack of native support for Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) on Windows 7. Many enterprises still rely on interna...

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 | 65 comments

Storage and Clustering Community

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Using Symantec FileStore in VDI Deployments

Ruchi Goyal

Symantec Employee

In this video, Product Manager Ruchi Goyal, discusses the implementation challenges of desktop virtualization and how Symantec FileStore addresses those challenges to provide the best VMDK storage farm solution. Resources: White paper:Scale-Out Storage Optimized for VMware Virtual Desktop Infra...

Posted: 09 Jan 2012

Security Community

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A Reminder about Rootkits

John H

Symantec Employee

Rootkit stories show up in the mainstream media on a regular basis these days. While these stories raise public awareness about what the bad guys are doing, they usually leave readers wondering what they can do to protect themselves from silent threats infecting their computers at home and i...

Posted: 18 Jan 2012

Inside Symantec Community

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Better Backup For All

Deepak Mohan

Symantec Employee

Explosive information growth is not new news for organizations anymore – it is becoming the norm. The incredible strain this growth puts on infrastructures designed to manage and protect it has been a growing concern for years, though much more accelerated in recent times as virtualization and...

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 | 10 comments

Vision User Conference Community

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DISCOVER THE POWER OF KNOWLEDGE

LeslieMiller

Admin

What powers your IT career? If the answer includes deep technical knowledge, up-close access to experts, and productive connections with your peers, you won’t want to miss Symantec Vision 2012. Join us this year for even more hands-on labs, technical breakouts, in-depth training, and one-on-on...

Posted: 14 Jan 2012 | 3 comments

Partners Community

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Backup Exec Deduplication Assessment Tool

GFK

Symantec Employee

Technical introduction to the upcoming Backup Exec Deduplication Assessment tool, designed to enable partners to demonstrate the value of Backup Exec deduplication technology within customer environments by scanning server resources and generating accurate deduplication assessment reports.

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 | 4 comments

Developers Community

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Validation and ID Protection Service (VIP) Developer Test Drive

Kimberley

Admin

The Symantec™ Validation and ID Protection Service (VIP) Developer Center provides free APIs and implementation documentation for a pilot test environment. By using the Symantec VIP APIs, you can evaluate, test, and integrate VIP two-factor authentication into your own online applications. Va...

Posted: 29 Jun 2011

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discussion comment 5 min ago

Mervynmm commented on: Howto recover or recreate Opscenter database

Hi I dont have a backup copy of the current database .I am trying to recover this database or create a brand new one , but dont want to re -install opscenter to achieve this .

new discussion 7 min ago

Sa1 posted: SAN based backup in Virtual Environment

I need a solution Hi, What is a best practice for taking SAN based backup (on SAN Fiber network) in Tape Library in following virtualized environment: 1. Solaris 10 LDOM (Control Domain & Guest domain both of Solaris 10) with SAP Oracle database on it. 2. Vmware Vsphere-5 (Host running ESX and VMs running ...

new idea 8 min ago

Aaed Alqarta posted: Run Command on Clients > Re-authentication

Hello, It would be great if SEPM console has a new command to be runned on remote clients that require a SNAC re-authentication. In some cases, network switches will take time to re-authenticate machines. Customers who face issues with 802.1x might still allow machines to access the network even if they failed compliance check. (Security, 11.x, 12.x, Endpoint Protection ...

discussion comment 9 min ago

NIKHIL2346565959 commented on: DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PURE DISC,ADVANCED DISK AND DATA DOMAIN

what if my data domain is full? is it use to store backup images?

discussion comment 11 min ago

pkh commented on: Backup Exec 2010 R3 Sharing Media Pool

You can use the same media set for media residing on both devices if the OPP and AP settings for both devices are the same.

new discussion 14 min ago

syedzeeshan posted: update emm databases

I do not need a solution (just sharing information) hi , run this command C:\Program Files\Veritas\Volmgr\bin>tpext -loademm then shutdown services C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin>bpdown -f -v to check status C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin>bpps ...

discussion comment 15 min ago

Marianne van den Berg commented on: Backup of individual mailbox in Exchange 2010

MAPI backups are not supported on Exch2010. You can configure GRT backups to disk to enable single item restore. See NBU for Exchange Server Admin Guide http://www.symantec.com/docs/DOC3669 for details. Also see list of Exchange videos that give step-by-step instructions: http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO41825

new discussion 16 min ago

syedzeeshan posted: shutdown job scheduler

I do not need a solution (just sharing information) c program files/veritas/netbackup/bin/admincmd # nbpemreq -terminate This will stop the nbpemdaemon and the associated nbpem_emailand nbproxyprocesses. # nbpemreq -suspend_scheduling This will stop the nbpemdaemon from scheduling backups. Manual ...

discussion comment 16 min ago

NIKHIL2346565959 commented on: what is the basic functionality of these commands

ok What scsi means?

new discussion 18 min ago

syedzeeshan posted: run nbu report

I do not need a solution (just sharing information) hi , Backup admin are required to provide netbackup for policies C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\admincmd>bppllist.exe -allpolicies -verbose -L > bppllist.txt you will find the .txt file in admincmd folder go into admincmd folder ...

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