Greetings one and all!
I am here to offer up a new White Paper Symantec commissioned from ESG comparing single backup solutions vs mutliple solutions to handle virtual environments.
From the intro:
In early 2012, ESG’s annual spending ...
Recently, Symantec commissioned 451 Research to take a good hard look at Backup Exec's philosophy of and strategy toward protecting heterogenous environments.
From the intro:
The 451 Take
Though VM-specific vendors have made ...
Understanding Compression in Backup Exec:
An explanation of Hardware and Software compression used with Backup Exec
How does compression work?
It can be better explained with an example. Consider a text file (.txt) with its ...
LOG Locations in Backup Exec:
Backup Exec Support Log (SymHelp):
Default Directory: C:\Program Files\Symantec\Backup Exec
Filename: <Servername>__<Date>__<Time>.sdbz
Usage: Symantec Help ( ...
CATALOGS:
When cataloging a tape, Backup Exec reads the header information from the tape and stores it in a file on the hard drive.
The information contained in the catalog includes, but is not limited to:
•Tape ...
The following table shows the hotfixes which were released for Backup Exec 2010 R3 version. All the hotfixes in Italic are not anymore available through LiveUpdate, because they were replaced by Service Packs
Hotfix number ...
Introduction
Using Backup Exec to backup virtual environments that use Hyper-V 2 (Windows Server 2008 R2) as hypervisor may be not as simple as it first looks.
In this paper I want to cover some of the reasons why partners and customers struggle ...
Fonctionnement de la sauvegarde de déduplication Backup Exec Travaux: les travaux de déduplication en divisant les données en segments 128K, puis stocker les segments dans un dossier de stockage de déduplication, avec une base de données qui permet de ...
I hope this will help out other users and also the Symantec tech support team:
I would like to preface this by saying that I have been working on trying to get BE2012 installed on my system since it came out. I waited for SP1 with abated breath ...
If you’re new to backups, or even Backup Exec, working out how everything works, gets installed and configured, and fits together, can be a very daunting place to be.
I started out the same as any other newcomer to backups, and the skills ramp-up was ...