Online Storage for Backup Exec
Syntex
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November 11th, 2009
Does anyone know when Symantec will release the 64-Bit agent for SPN?
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ntruhan
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October 13th, 2009
Hello,
I am currently running the trial of the Online Storage using Backup Exec 12.5 Small Business Edition.
We currently have about 35 - 40GB of data that gets backed up in our full backups that occur once a week now, and about 5GB of data that gets backed up as a differential the rest of the week mon - thurs. (office is closed on weekends).
There are, of course, two jobs that do this, a full and differential. AS a trial, I setup an account with the Online Storage and setup a Duplicate Set Copy of the Differential Job.
There are two problems that we are running into with this.
First, both jobs currently backup to a DAT-40/80 Tape system running with hardware/software failback compression.
Once that job runs, if it does run successfully, we have had a LOT of backup failures with the tapes, upgraded tapes, cleaned, etc... which prompted us to upgrade from BackupExec 11d to 12.5 and start Online Storage.
Since the upgrade, however, the tapes are also suceeding, but I...
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SwathiTurlapaty
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October 5th, 2009
I am trying to think creative on a Monday morning and am quiet happy to get this phrase in my mind.."JUST ONE WORD".
Yeah...it's my call-out for the most you can say about a Symante'c Backup & Archiving product with just ONE happy word. For example: "Enterprise Vault is Execeptional Vault". Just shout back on this thread, as we can continue to witness the wonderful "one word" stories about our favourite products :-).
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Daren Lewis
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September 15th, 2009
For the bad guys, it can be a costly exercise to produce new families of malware in order to maintain their criminal activity at sufficient levels. Registering new domains is much more economical for them, and by spreading the malware across as many different websites and domains as possible, the longevity of each new malware is increased. When employing server-side polymorphism, the same family of malware code may be packaged differently into new strains, automatically and dynamically, each time it is accessed. This requires a different anti-virus signature each time in order to detect it accurately. These approaches combined with the use of “bullet-proof” hosting services and “fast-flux” hosting means that criminals can ensure that malicious websites are not taken down quickly in response to complaints.
In many cases the organized criminals often have highly automated techniques in place that require little or no monitoring, and their systems are...
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Daren Lewis
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September 15th, 2009
In early August, a number of very well-known social networking websites were reported to be victims of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. The attacks appear to be linked with a “Joe Job” style spam run against an anti-Russian blogger. A “Joe Job” is a spam technique that spoofs the From: email address using a real email address (i.e. an unsuspecting victim) to make it appear as though that person was responsible for the email.
The spam run, as far as MessageLabs Intelligence can determine, was estimated at less than one percent of all spam at that time and distributed from a currently unclassified botnet. The run was significantly smaller compared with some of the more recent spam runs, such as the URL-shortening attacks from Donbot.
Although it is presumed that this spam run contributed to the DDoS attacks on these social networking websites, it is unlikely that this run alone could have caused all the reported disruption, suggesting that...
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Daren Lewis
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September 15th, 2009
Over the past two months, MessageLabs Intelligence has been tracking the rise of URL-shortening services appearing in spam emails. With so many of these legitimate services available on the internet, many are being routinely abused by spammers, so much so that many have been forced to close, leaving users with indignant messages explaining why, for example in Figure 1 and Figure 2, below.
Figure 1 - URL shortening website abused by spammers
Figure 2 - URL shortening website temporarily closed due to spam abuse
Spam runs containing many new shortened-URLs continued through July and August, with a peak of activity on 26 July at 9.25% of all spam, equivalent to more than 10 billion spam messages per day worldwide. This can be seen in Figure 3.
In this particular spam run, the focus was pharmaceutical and again, the Donbot botnet, one of the largest botnets currently in operation, was perceived to be responsible.
Example subjects included the following:
Phentermine 37.5...
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Daren Lewis
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September 15th, 2009
Real Host, an ISP based in Riga, Latvia was alleged to be linked to command-and-control servers for infected botnet computers, as well as being linked to malicious websites, phishing websites and “rogue” anti-virus products. Real Host was disconnected by its upstream providers on 1 August 2009. The impact was immediately felt, as can be seen in Figure 1, where spam volumes dropped briefly by as much as 38% in the subsequent 48-hour period.
Much of this spam was linked to the Cutwail botnet, currently one of the largest botnets and responsible for approximately 15-20% of all spam. Its activity levels fell by as much as 90% when Real Host was taken offline, but quickly recovered in a matter of days.
Figure 1 shows the relative proportion of spam originating from the five major botnets globally during the period of this attack: Cutwail, Xarvester, Rustock, Mega-D, and Donbot. The scale used is a relative index based on the relative volumes and spam rate...
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Daren Lewis
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September 15th, 2009
The most common trigger for policy-based filtering applied by the MessageLabs Web Security Service for its business clients was the “Advertisements & Popups” category, down by 2.07% since July, to 58.03% in August.
Analysis of web security activity shows that 45.4% of all web-based malware intercepted was new in August, an increase of 44.7% since July, and 19.5% of web-based spyware was new, a 0.01% decrease since the previous month.
An average of 3,510 websites per day were identified as harboring malware and other potentially unwanted programs such as spyware and adware; a decrease of 2.9% since July.
The chart below shows the increase in the number of new spyware and adware websites blocked each day on average during August compared with the equivalent number of web-based malware websites blocked each day.
Read the entire report or listen to the podcast.
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Daren Lewis
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September 15th, 2009
Spam: In August 2009, the global ratio of spam in email traffic was down by 0.9% from the previous month at 88.5% (1 in 1.13 emails).
Hong Kong was the most spammed country in August although levels fell by 0.8% to 93.4% Spam levels in the US and Canada rose to 89.5% and 88.7% respectively. The majority of other countries saw a decline in August with levels in the UK falling to 91.6%, Germany to 90.4%, France to 90.7%, and The Netherlands to 86.3%. Levels in Australia and Japan declined to 90.6% and 89.2% respectively.
Anti-Virus and Trojans: The global ratio of email-borne viruses in email traffic was 1 in 296.6 emails (0.34%) in August, almost unchanged since July.
In August, 14.8% of email-borne malware contained links to malicious websites, a decrease of 0.4% since July. Spoofed postcard mails were responsible for 21.3% of malicious links in August.
Although virus activity in China declined to 1 in 196.9 emails, it was placed at the top of the virus table for August....
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Daren Lewis
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September 14th, 2009
Welcome to the new MessageLabs Intelligence blog. For a decade the MessageLabs team has been protecting our clients against internet threats. With services across multiple communication channels – email, IM and web – we see billions of connections per day and have a unique view of the challenges of conducting your business online. Now as part of Symantec we will be highlighting our understanding of the threat landscape, emerging threats and other business challenges that our hosted services address. We will also give you insight into our plans to help our clients deal with these issues through enhancements to our existing services and new innovations.
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yau2914
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September 14th, 2009
Hi All,
Recently, i reinstall the Symantec Veritas Storage EXEC 5.3, and i had facing problem on reinstall this application.
*My server OS: Window 2003 SP2
*NO install Terminal Services
While i reinstall SE, the application does not allow me to choose any component to install after i key in the product key.
On the component menu , all the component is in " Red cross" and do not allow me to select " install " .
I had try to reinstall SE with login to local admin ID but failed.
On summary, the IE unable to display any error message( Pafe cannot be displayed) and the log files show that the installation completed with successful.
Need yr help please...
Thanks,
RAY
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JRV
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September 13th, 2009
Prelude
Initially, I wrote this about Backup Exec, because that's where I ran into this problem. I'm also a SAV & SEP veteran but don't recall seeing this heinous language in their KB articles. So maybe it's a Veritas thing. But, whatever...
...then it occurred to me that while BE may (or may not) be the only Symantec enterprise product to which the symptom applies, the cure is universal. Because it bridges a huge gap between the goals of Symantec Sales, Support, Connect, Knowledge Base, and Product Managers. So I've taken the unusual-and-hopefully-not-presumptuous step of tagging it to all available products. It is global.
That kinda makes it Ideas spam, I know. Never done it before; probably never will again. Hope you can forgive me!
Don Quixote Battles Symantec
Two KB articles I've browsed recently contain variations on this boilerplate (emphasis mine):
"There are currently no plans to address this issue by way of a patch or hotfix in the...
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SwathiTurlapaty
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August 3rd, 2009
Have you deployed Symantec Backup solutions?? If so, share your story and win great prizes!
Submit a blog entry by September 30th, and earn 75 Connect Rewards Points (that's a lot more than a traditional blog entry). If your story is among the best, you will receive a kit with a Flip Ultra cam, where you can tell your story to the community and Symantec by submitting a video blog! The Grand Prize winner will earn an additional 2,000 Connect Rewards Points, redeemable for a Nintendo Wii, iPod touch, among other great prizes.
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TomSchroeder
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June 26th, 2009
Storage Networking World, Oct 27-28, Congress Frankfurt, Germany
Visit us at SNW Europe that will be held in conjunction with Virtualization World and DataCenter Technologies and learn how to better utilize your existing storage assets to take control of ever-increasing storage and how to optimize your data center.
For the sixth consecutive year SNW Europe will open its doors to the European IT community, bringing educational, thought-provoking and inspiring conference sessions together with the most comprehensive expo featuring all the leading players in the industry today. The SNW Europe conference will feature real-life customer experiences from across the region coupled with non-partisan technology tutorials delivered by members of SNIA, the leading industry association, and a wide range of other industry commentators and consultant-led sessions discussing the very latest industry trends. Co-located with two brand-new conferences and exhibitions focussing on Virtualization and...
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TomSchroeder
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June 26th, 2009
Gartner DataCenter Summit, Oct 5-6, London, Royal Lancaster Hotel, UK
Visit Symantec – the Premier Sponsor at Gartner DataCenter Summit and learn how to optimize your data center and to reduce IT costs while improving the utilization of your IT infrastructure and administrative resources.
Gartner Data Center Summit offers guidance on turning today's improvements in IT infrastructure and process efficiency into tomorrow's business advantage. A new set of objectives is emerging - efficiency, reusability and policy-level management. Technology developments, process and cultural changes, play a significant role in realizing these goals.
Topics: Blade Server Hardware, Business Continuity Management, Client Computing Hardware, Cloud Computing, Configuration Management, Data Center Management, Data Center Services, Disaster Recovery, Enterprise Management Software, IT Infrastructure and Operations Management, Server Hardware, Storage Hardware, Virtualization
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EtsukoK
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May 19th, 2009
Today, Symantec will participate in the 2009 Phoenix Awards at the National Small Business Week event in Washington D.C. Since 1998, the Small Business Association has given the Phoenix Award to business owners, public officials and volunteers who displayed selflessness, ingenuity and tenacity in the aftermath of a disaster, while contributing to the rebuilding of their communities.
Losing critical information in the wake of a disaster can be crippling for a small business and it is critical for small businesses to establish a disaster recovery plan. By putting basic best practices to action companies can protect against data loss and system downtime, establish business continuity and ensure rapid recovery from a disaster.
We’ve put together a list of simple tips that can help small business easily develop a disaster recovery strategy:
1. Know what needs to be secure and protected – This data includes customer information, human resources information, proprietary trade...
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SwathiTurlapaty
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May 11th, 2009
Hey all!
Did you all know that we now have a new rewards system in place? Considering the changes made to it, I would want to revisit the tips that I shared with you in my last blog. My point of focus is yet again the "Voting" and "Mark as Solution" features. Now, when your post is marked as a solution you gain 25 points, while your votes to the posts will no longer gain you 0.5 points. Instead, with every thumbs-up you make to a post, the respective author will be adding some points to his kitty. If you think that voting is a benefit to the content authors and not you, its definitely not. You do a favor now to your peers and they will return your favor back when you have some content posted. It's a give and take policy. Therefore, make it a point to make "Voting" and "Marking as a Solution" part of your routine.
Check this out for more details.
Digressing from the above topic, I would want to share some more information that can...
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Dano Oliveira
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March 13th, 2009
As a product manager for Backup Exec I have the pleasure of talking to many of our customers and partners in the field. It’s fascinating to hear about the latest backup strategy, with the newest hardware and the way customers use our product to secure good backups. On the other hand, what concerns me is the lack of strategy when it comes to disaster recovery.
When I did IT work, which wasn’t too long ago, I remember having to rebuild a server from scratch when it crashed. True, I had my data secure, but the time it took to rebuild that server cost the customer or company money. It was very painful; I remember having to locate the drivers disc, install the OS again, get everything updated, reinstall the apps, configure everything, etc… and then restore the data. After that, I had to make sure everything was synced and then reconfigure the backup job.
Of course this is just the Reader’s Digest version. You, who...
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SwathiTurlapaty
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March 9th, 2009
Hello folks,
Thank you all for taking time to provide us with some constructive feedback about ‘our’ community. We will be working on your suggested improvements in our next release... So please stay tuned.
Alright, now it’s time to divert our topic from ‘Community Health’ to ‘Community Wealth’. The new site has lots of robust content made available to you. Leaving aside the forums which continue to be a hotspot for many, I would want to discuss about the Articles, Videos and Downloads. How resourceful are they? How different you want them to be? What more would you like to see? These are some of the many questions that I am seeking answers for. Any thoughts are welcome.
And, just to reiterate, the community provides you with a wonderful opportunity to contribute content. You could blog, write articles or post any videos or scripts that could be quite informative to your peers. Just a few guidelines to be keep in mind...
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SwathiTurlapaty
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February 27th, 2009
Firstly a very warm welcome to the new Symantec Connect site. This is a place for all of the STN, Juice and the Altiris Support Forum peers to meet and discuss about their favorite products. We have bundled some great new features on this community site so as to provide our priceless users with great product information via Forums, Articles, Blogs, Videos, and more . One distinguished feature of this new site is that the users can contribute content. So, please avail this wonderful opportunity not only to discuss in the forums but also to share some of your valuable information through blogs, videos and articles. Guess what! you'd be rewarded for all of the sincere contributions you make to the site. Check out the Symantec Rewards Program for more details.
And now, to introduce myself, I am the Community Manager for the Backup and Archiving community that includes some of Symantec's top products namely BE, BESR, NBU, EV, SPN and more. STN users might very well know me as "...
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SwathiTurlapaty
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February 27th, 2009
Executive Summary
Symantec Backup Exec™ for Windows® Servers is a comprehensive backup and recovery solution that protects a wide range of data resources, from file systems to popular databases. Symantec Online Storage enhances Backup Exec by providing secure off-site backup storage hosted in redundant data centers that are managed by Symantec for long-term storage and disaster recovery purposes.
Symantec Online Storage for Backup Exec is an offering of Symantec Protection Network (www.spn.com), which provides market-leading Symantec technologies to customers as online services. Symantec Online Storage for Backup Exec is completely integrated with Backup Exec for Windows Servers (v12 and higher); in theory, you could send any on-premise backup to Symantec Protection Network data centers. However, when backing up over the Internet to managed data centers, the performance is not the same as when backing up to local disk. The amount of bandwidth available, frequency of backups...
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SwathiTurlapaty
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February 26th, 2009
Hosted applications delivered over the Internet, commonly called "software-as-a-service," are rapidly gaining popularity with customers in small and large businesses, as well as with consumers. By 2010, this form of delivery is estimated to comprise 23 percent of the $120 billion U.S. software market, according to a recent report by RBC Capital Markets.
What accounts for this growth? Software-as-a-service (SaaS) offers several advantages compared with buying traditional software licenses. Here are some of the most compelling:
Lower TCO: SaaS is usually paid for on a monthly subscription basis. That can make payments more manageable for customers, spreading them out over time rather than paying a lump sum.
More importantly, this model helps lower total cost of ownership by eliminating some of the non-licensing costs associated with using an application. When running an application in house, you need hardware to run it on, and IT staff to provide ongoing maintenance. With...
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