How far along are you on your virtualization journey? Most organizations already have more than half of their systems virtualized and are currently virtualizing their most business critical applications.

Now you are facing the challenge of keeping your ever-expanding virtual environment protected while providing the required service level for the business critical physical systems. Managing two separate isolated environments increases complexity and introduces potential for gaps in the data protection strategy if not carefully planned and implemented.

A poorly planned data protection strategy will not only increase risk to the data but will also consume more storage, restrict your recovery options and increase the time spent managing the environment. This is why it is important to understand the options and pitfalls when building a data protection strategy for virtual and mixed environments.

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Backup Exec issues a security certificate for both the Backup Exec server and the remote computer. The security certificate is valid for approximately one year and is automatically renewed during normal operations. However, if the certificate expires you must re-establish the trust. The certificate (*.CRT) and private key (*.key) is stored on the backup server and the remote server in the data folder ( %programfiles%\Symantec\Backup Exec\Data or %programfiles%\Symantec\RAWS\Data). 

The trust between the remote computer and the Backup Exec server is automatically established during installation:

1) push-installing the Agent for Windows to remote computers.

2) add the remote computer to the list of servers on the Backup and Restore tab.

For reasons requiring this mechanism to be disabled, use the following registry key on the backup server and the remote server.

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If you are looking at tuning performance of your backups generally, recommend you to go through the Backup Exec 2012 performance tuning guide:

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Backup Exec 2012 v14.0 Rev 1798 (64Bit)

Problem:  I used live update to install the 201596 hotfix on my CAS last week.  The update showed successful, but after the reboot there were problems.  The following three services were set to disabled after the reboot, Backup Exec Deduplication Engine, Backup Exec Deduplication Manager and PostgreSQL Server 8.3.  Also, all disk storage was missing (Local Backup to Disk Storage, Local Deduplication Storage and Network Disk Storage).  Only tape storage remained.

Troubleshooting: I tried to add a disk storage location back and re-catalog the sets, but that operation failed with a duplicate key error.  I deleted that disk storage and then was unable to see it as a storage location choice to add again.

I uninstalled the hotfix through the windows 2008 R2 uninstall utility.  The storage was still gone.  I reapplied and the hotfix with no change.  Those three services...