Banking, education, services, insurance, retail in addition to other industries in Lebanon are using Backup Exec 2012 to protect their data and consequently their business. It is widely used to backup databases, mailbox stores, files, virtual images, active directory and others platforms. It can be used to protect servers, personal computers and laptops.  Backup Exec 2012 offers an easy to use, user friendly interface with a step by step wizard to configure multiple options.  

Initially when I installed Backup Exec 2012, I was really disappointed to find out that some configurations did not work the same way that they did in 2010.  There were major changes to the interface and menus as well as the backup scheme switched from multiple selections/servers in one job to resource centric backup jobs.

On the other side, I was extremely happy to see simplified wizards to configure full and...

• First, keeping a lot of physical servers just out of laziness.
• Second, not implementing a separate iSCSI network.
• Third, not implementing a separate backup network.
• Forth, not implementing redundancy in (the only) network.
• Fifth, not choosing a VMware license which allows live migration (the customer thought they had but they didn't. VMware Essentials Bundle is....  just expensive)
• Sixth, not implementing a backup solution that targets a virtualized environment, just continuing the backups as usual and with no other backup storage then the primary...

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Do I have to verify?    Here is a short summary of what’s up with that verify portion of the job that everyone says is so important, but seems to take too long. 

To ensure your backups are healthy it is strongly recommended to run a Verify.  The Verify job checks that data can be read or restored from the media. Backup Exec includes this as a default in backup jobs but you can schedule the verify operation to run at a different time or you can disable it. Scheduling Verify to run at a separate time enables the backup jobs to complete in a shorter time window.

Options  are:

At the end of the job.  This is automatically set in the job

After job finishes, as a  separate job  You can check the checkbox to  Verify the data on the client if the device supports it;  This allows the verify job to run remotely therefore freeing up...