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Why Heathrow and What is P2V and B2V for Backup Exec 2012?
SeanRegan | 12 Jan 2012 | 0 comments

 

I’m excited to have a guest Blogger Rudy McNeese and the Heathrow, Florida office join the Countdown to Better Backup. Today we opened the launch countdown window for Instant Disaster Recovery with P2V and B2V. 

With this capability Backup Exec 2012 will expand add two new key capabilities, physical to virtual conversions, known as P2V, as well as the ability to backup to virtual format, known as B2V.

The P2V process utilizes parallel data streams to store backup data from a protected server to a Backup Exec 2012 server while simultaneously sending the same backup data, in the form of a virtual machine, to a virtual host in the environment for both VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V environments.

The result of a P2V operation is a fully recoverable backup set as well as a fully functional virtual machine that can be used for permanent virtual conversion operations as well as warm failover, disaster recovery scenarios.

The B2V...

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Why Roseville is the 1st City on the Backup Countdown Calendar?
SeanRegan | 09 Jan 2012 | 0 comments

 

Why Roseville?

We started the NetBackup and Backup Exec launch sequence this week with the release of the Countdown to Better Backup Calendar. This was modeled after the idea of an Advent Calendar. Every few days we will open a new window to reveal a new feature of the launch calendar leading up to the product launch. As part of the launch effort each square on the calendar will open in a different city worldwide. This helps us reach our customers and partners in cities around the world and it gives us a chance to bring together all the people who have worked on the release.

Often in marketing it is hard to deliver technical information to the end customers. Everyone is busy, and there is so much noise online it is hard for product announcements to reach customers. One just needs to post a question on LinkedIn asking question about a technology to...

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Handy BackUpExec Links
Kiran Bandi | 27 Dec 2011 | 2 comments

Step by Step guide to download and install BE 2010 R2: http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH138264

BE 2010/R2/R3 Administrator's Guide: http://www.symantec.com/docs/DOC2211

BE 2010/R2/R3 Software Compatibility: http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH137682

BE 2010/R2/R3 Hardware Compatibility: http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH137050

BE 12.5 Software Compatibility: http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH62301

BE 12.5 Hardware Compatibility: http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH62114

BE 12 Software Compatibility: http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH56442

BE 12 Hardware Compatibility: http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH55640

How to upgrade and migrate BE 11d/12/12.5 standard,CASO and SAN/SSO environments to 201o with a different server name and version of windows: http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH137015

Direct upgrade path from BE 11d/12.0/12.5/2010 to BE 2010 R2: http://www.symantec.com/docs/...

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Use the Product and Agents / Options Landing Pages to find solutions faster.
Carlos_Quiroga | 21 Nov 2011 | 0 comments

Symwise, our Symantec public knowledge base, offers the possiblity of performing specific searches on errors for each Product Agent and Option, which delivers a narrowed down and improved article result set which will help you find solutions faster and resolve issues most times on your own.

As a Backup Administrator and Backup Exec user, you should be acquainted with these search resources and use them as the first step in troubleshooting problems, before posting questions on the forums or calling the support line.

 

Accesing Symwise - the General Support Landing Page

To enter the General Support Landing Page, you must navigate to:

www.symantec.com/business/support

This is the general Landing Page, and although you can start searching here, it is convenient to first select a...

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Is it acceptable to place an LTO 5 barcode label on an LTO 3 tape in order to make it over-written on by Backup Exec
Striker 303 | 21 Nov 2011 | 3 comments

Labeling an LTO 3 tape with LTO 5 sticker will not matter at all with Backup Exec.

For LTO's, older tapes are backward compatible with newer drives as follows:

- The previous generation tape can be read/written.
- The generation previous to that can be read.
- Generations before that are not compatible.

eg: an LTO-5 drive can read/write LTO-5, can read/write LTO-4, can read LTO-3, and is incompatible with LTO-1/2.

Newer tapes cannot be used in older drives under any circumstances. So, placing an LTO 5 barcode label on an LTO 3 tape would not make it over-written by Backup Exec.

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It's software, Jim, but not as we know it
Barnaby_Wood | 28 Oct 2011 | 0 comments

In a coupe of days time I will have been looking after Backup Exec in some shape or form at Symantec for eleven years. Sales, pre-sales, regional technical leader and now as Subject Matter Expert. In that time I've known software and that's it, really. Certainly, like any pre-sales guy I could make the hardware do useful stuff but it was software driven.

 

So what's with backup appliances? Software and hardware in one go. Some time ago Symantec launched the first NetBackup appliance and with a series of appliances now available it seems that the business is going from strength to strength. But It's not like e-mailing a license key or buying boxed product software. There are incredibly slick processes being running in the background managing the logistics and I'm in awe of the people who make it happen. I'm lucky enough to call some of them friends. They do the hard work so you don't have to; but more of that later.

 

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Who's Looking After Your Clouds?
Barnaby_Wood | 28 Oct 2011 | 0 comments

Cloud is the answer. It has to be doesn't it? And its all about software, right? Wrong. I'm at VMworld in Copenhagen this week and its not just about software and its not all about virtual. Sean Regan walked around the show and found 14 hardware boxes that weigh more than him. Cloud? Maybe - clouds aren't weighed down by steel boxes. Consolidation? Maybe. Some of its expansion, especially in storage, but shhh, don't tell anyone; its a secret.

 

From customers I've talked to here it seems to be all about doing more with existing hardware. Getting the cloud you want from the infrastructure you've got. That sounds like its a blend of physical and virtual, not just all about virtual. Symantec can take the hardware you've got today and help you build a cloud infrastructure on top of it in partnership with VMware. Once you've built that infrastructure, we'll help you protect it too. Can you imagine deploying a physical production...

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Backup Exec Sevices Issue
Vinothkumar | 21 Oct 2011 | 0 comments

Issue:

Unable to restart the backup exec services from Tools menu, click Backup Exec Services

Error/Scenario:

While restarting the service the services gets hang, unable to stop the services or start the services

Resolution:

If the backup exec services hangs while restarting from Tools menu, click Backup Exec Services then we need to manually stop the services and start the services

We can start or stop the services manually from services.msc (Windows Services) option.

If the service is in "Stopping" or "Starting" status then we need to kill the services from task manager

Taskmanager >> Processes >>End the services.

After killing the services we can manually start the services and we can open the backup exec.

Applies To:

Backup Exec 2010

Backup Exec 12.5

Backup Exec 11d

Backup Exec...

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Unable to perform the VSS backup.
Vinothkumar | 21 Oct 2011 | 1 comment

Issue:

Unable to perform the VSS backup.

Error:

Error code:  0x8000FFFF"

Event ID Logs:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: VSS
Event ID: 12302

Cause:

Issue with the corrupted registry settings

Steps to replicate:

Perform vssadmin list writers in cmd - If unable to get any writers listed need to follow the resolution.

Resolution:

We need to delete the registry key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\EventSystem\{26c409cc-ae86-11d1-b616-00805fc79216}\Subscriptions

Note: Before deleting the registry key please backup the complete registry

After deleting the registry we need to restart the services

  • COM+ Event System
  • COM+ System Application
  • Microsoft Software Shadow Copy Provider
  • Volume Shadow Copy...
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Backup Exec Usability Sessions – Backup Exec 2012 Upgrade
Elizabeth Teffner | 25 Jul 2011 | 5 comments

The Backup Exec Usability Team is interested in your feedback!

We are currently recruiting current Backup Exec customers for remote usability sessions to gather user feedback on a upgrading to a new version of Backup Exec. We are looking to for customers who currently are using Backup Exec and will be upgrading to newer versions of Backup Exec. So basically any current Backup Exec user!

These sessions will be conducted via WebEx and only take 1 hour of your time.

If you are interested in participating in this usability study, please click here to view available session times. The sessions are offered at various times from August 1st– August 5th.

This is your opportunity to help shape the future of Backup Exec.

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