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Five Critical Decisions for Virtual Machine Backup and Recovery

@BackupMikko | 08 May 2013 | 0 comments

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.

Host-level Integration and Virtual Machine optimized...

Symantec NetBackup Manages Both Virtual and Physical Environments for California Hospital

ALJohnson | 01 May 2013 | 0 comments

In this video, Antelope Valley Hospital CIO Humberto Quintar discusses the reasons his organization selected Symantec NetBackup, including support for both physical & virtual environments, faster, more granular backup and recovery, improved staff productivity, and reduced costs. Check out the video here: http://bit.ly/YRe0gh

Resolution of Ops Center Services not started,When Upgrading VBR TO Ops Center

inn_kam | 29 Apr 2013 | 1 comment

Hi Guys

i want to mention a very special step which we need to take care about,when upgrading VBR To Ops Center

as when we upgrade OpsCenter from VBR ,And go to internet explorer ,it shows Server not found

when we checked the services Ops Center Services were not starting

so i took help from symantec

they resolve this and told that donot uninstall the VBR Server, and told us to follow the steps:

Use the following procedure to uninstall VBR after upgrading to OpsCenter server on Windows platforms:

1. Select Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services and stop the Symantec Product Authentication Service.

2. Navigate to the following location after upgrading from VBR to OpsCenter server: <install_path>\VERITAS\Security\Authentication...

db_FLISTsend failed: system call failed (11)

drhartman | 26 Apr 2013 | 1 comment

The backups have begun to fail consistently with the following error:
Error bpbrm (pid=16758) db_FLISTsend failed: system call failed (11)

I have found that the directory, /opt/openv/netbackup/db/images, is pegged at 100%. What suggestions might you have to recover from this situation?

Thank you,

Russ

Symantec Backup Exec™ Management Plug-in 1.1 for Kaseya® now supports Kaseya Server v6.3

Krishna Pratap Singh | 15 May 2013 | 0 comments

Symantec Backup Exec Management Plug-in 1.1 for Kaseya until the recent past was supporting the following Kaseya versions namely Kaseya Server v 6.1 and Kaseya Server v6.2. The release of Kaseya Server v6.3 in first quarter of this year changed the scenario a bit and the existing plug-in was no longer compatible. However with the release of service pack (SP1) for Symantec Backup Exec Management Plug-in 1.1 the wait for Kaseya 6.3 support is finally over.

So What’s New?

This release of the plug-in includes following new features and capabilities

Platform Support for Kaseya Server 6.3
Support for Windows Server 2012
Support for MS-SQL Server 2012

It is important to understand that the SP1 release of the Symantec Backup Exec Management Plug-in 1.1 for Kaseya is just a platform support release...

Removing VMWare snapshots left behind by Backup Exec

AshutoshTamhankar | 23 Apr 2013 | 0 comments

Snapshots created for a virtual machine on an ESX host, may not be deleted after a backup if the remote agent crashes abnormally during the backup operation. So that such orphaned backup exec snapshots can be deleted automatically, following registry key could be set:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Symantec\Backup Exec For Windows\Backup Exec\Engine\VMware Agent

Key name	Value	Data type
AutoOrphanSnapshotRemoval	1 = Orphaned snapshots created by Backup Exec are deleted at the beginning of the backup.	REG_DWORD

More information here: http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH200709

Disabling security (TLS/SSL) between Backup Exec Server and Remote Server communication for test purposes?

AshutoshTamhankar | 23 Apr 2013 | 2 comments

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.

This is...

Ops Center Vs Ops Center Analytics ( Free Vs Licensed Option Respectively)

inn_kam | 18 Apr 2013 | 2 comments

This article is taken from symantec special hidden document

http://eval.symantec.com/mktginfo/enterprise/white_papers/b-nbu_7_opscenter_analytics_WP.en-us.pdf

Ops Center (Free Product)

OpsCenter is a free product which gives you the ability to monitor, alert and do operational reporting on NetBackup, Enterprise Vault, Backup Exec and PureDisk. OpsCenter server is part of NetBackup and can be deployed on master server for managing a single domain, or independently for managing multiple NetBackup Domains. It also allows you to do minor management tasks such as “upping” tape drives, restarting failed jobs, freezing/unfreezing and other tape functions, restarting services/daemons on Masters etc. The free version limits historical reporting.

OpsCenter Analytics (Licensed...

Dealing with Microsoft SQL Server database backup issues by symantec

inn_kam | 18 Apr 2013 | 2 comments

i have searched and also use this tech note for my SQL server troublehooting

this is KB Article and very hidden article by symantec but its very useful for the users taking Backups of SQL Databases

So just for easiness of users i am publishing it, will help all SQL users who are backing thier data bases through Netbackup

How to troubleshoot Microsoft SQL Server database backup issues

Article:TECH38369

Created: 2005-01-13

Updated: 2012-09-10

Article URL http://www.symantec.com/...

Most Common Issue when EMM Server is down. How to Resolve by Symantec.

inn_kam | 18 Apr 2013 | 0 comments

In Netbackup ,the most common issue came i.e EMM Server is down ,

So i search in Symantec , and very hidden article came up,by Symantec, and its not easy to find this article

So i am sharing this , its excellent one. i resolved a lot from this

How to troubleshoot NetBackup Enterprise Media Manager (EMM) startup issues

Article:HOWTO61176

Created: 2011-12-02

Updated: 2012-09-27

Article URL http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO61176

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