At our site, we have been slowly virtualizing our servers.  I have decided to take advantage of that and use Hyper-V agents to simplify our full backups.  However, since a Hyper-V backup will not reset the archive bits, even with GRT enabled, I cannot ...

At present, if GRT is enabled for the Hyper-V windows VM backups, the system will Snapshot the VM, backup the snapshot catalog the snapshot   This last step takes a long time and there is no reason it couldn't be done in the ...

It is apparent to me and many others that the SMTP system in Backup Exec has been broken almost as long as I have been using it, sometime around 2005. That was probably before they were even taken over by Symantec, but the problem was able to be fixed ...

Backing up Hyper-V virtual machines to disk folder with GRT enabled "copies" in IMG folders the entire VHD files of the virtual machine so including the empty space of the virtual machine's partitions with no compression options. It is ...

A competing VMWare backup company, Veaam, has a product out that can perform a synthetic full creation of a vsphere API backup. Netbackup would dominate the space if they could provide a similar feature AND be able to support the file level restore on ...

The Microsoft Hyper-V agent will not back up a Hyper-V machine if it contains Pass-thru disks.  There is a limitation of the Microsoft Hyper-V VSS Writer that it will not allow the backing up of the Pass-thru disk attached to a Virtual Machine.  BUT, it ...

Whenever we backup a VM using the Hyper-V agent, the Backup Exec media server attempts to connect directly to the VM on UDP port 135. This is triggering our Intrusion Detection System and sending unecessary alerts to our security administrators.  ...

Dear all,   Please advise how we can merge two or three reports and generate a single report. Example. I need a daily backup status report of last 20 hours. Where I want to see the status by selected policies only. Where I want to ignore to monitor ...