Washington DC Backup & Archiving User Group

Public Group | Founded: 08 Oct 2008 | Serving 93 members

Welcome to the Washington DC Backup & Archiving User Group website!

If you live in the Washington DC area and use any Symantec Backup or Archiving products, we invite you to join our User Group! To become an official member, click the "Request Membership" button (you must log into Connect first).

Why join our User Group and attend our meetings?

Learn and share best practices
Network with your peers
Find answers to challenges
Receive latest information on Symantec products
Earn Connect Points and redeem for prizes!
Enjoy free food!

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Backup and Recovery, Storage and Clustering

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event comment 18 Apr 2013

John Cooperfield commented on: User Group Challenge VIII at Symantec Vision 2013

discussion comment 19 Mar 2013

Nicolai commented on: Optimized Synthetic Backups failing with error 79 for automounted file systems

Netbackup does not follow file system it think is are "remote" e.g. NFS You need to check mark the "follow NFS" option in the policy to let Netbackup follow automounted directories. See this tech ...

discussion comment 10 Aug 2012

LONGOWWF commented on: MSI quiet install When Users NOT logged on?

That's what I normally do, have a Custom CleanInventory job run daily so it removes the computers from the collection the task applies to. I've chosen run as soon as computer is notified, but Only when a user is not logged on is ...

discussion comment 03 Aug 2012

Jryankee commented on: NBU 5020 - Linux Media Server - Status Codes 83 and 84

Are you using 5220 as msdp or just media servers. If using as msdp, is the client dedupe or target dedupe. Try each and see what happens. If both, what happens if you backup to advance disk pool?

New blog entry 10 Jan 2012

Dean Bliss posted: Better Backup for All

Symantec is on the verge of launching two of the biggest product releases for Backups. The goal: To make backups faster and easier than ever before. Learn more here: http://www.betterbackupforall.com (Backup and Recovery, Backup and Recovery Community Blog, 7.1.x and Earlier, 201

New blog entry 16 Nov 2011

Dean Bliss posted: IDC's report on Symantec's V-Ray technology in NetBackup for VMware protection.

IDC approached Symantec, unsolicited, for a briefing on V-Ray. They were looking to create an Insight Report for their customers as they had so many inquiries around V-Ray. You’ll find this to be a very comprehensive and technical write up that shows NetBackup’s leadership in virtual machine pr

New blog entry 26 Oct 2011

Dean Bliss posted: NBU 7.5 Beta 2 - now available

NBU 7.5 Beta 2 is now available. You can register at this link: https://symbeta.symantec.com/callout/?callid=F61A94A5CE0F4F0D8213F3C9B862F3A7 If you choose to participate in the beta you can also post ideas, recommendations, issues, and comments on the Beta Connect group located here:

New blog entry 20 Oct 2011

Dean Bliss posted: Follow up from User Group Meeting

Thanks again for attenteding the latest user group meeting. And a BIG thank you to Geico for hosting this event. As a follow up several of you had plenty of questions around the NetBackup Appliances. Below are links to more resources about our appliance story and the different models/sizes we

New event 30 Sep 2011

AndyN posted: Washington DC Backup & Archiving User Group Meeting - October 20, 2011

GEICO Thu, 20 October, 2011 - 10:00 - 13:00 EDT Join us for our next Washington DC Backup & Archiving User Group meeting on Thursday, Octo

blog entry comment 29 May 2009

Pascal.KOTTE at BECHTLE commented on: Symantec User Group Program FAQ

OK, you see it was done the 23 May... Just 2 days after my comment above [But I do not say my comment was the source of the ".peter" creation ;-)] www-secure.symantec.com/connect/ideas