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Symantec’s NetBackup Platform Certified by SAP for Integration with SAP HANA;Provides Big Data Backup and Recovery Functionality
Jerry Gowen | 17 Jan 2013 | 0 comments

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – January 17, 2013– Symantec Corp. today announced its Symantec NetBackup solution has been certified by SAP to provide big data backup and recovery integration with the SAP HANA® platform.

The SAP Integration and Certification Center (SAP ICC) has certified that Symantec NetBackup integrates with SAP HANA as a third-party backup solution, allowing customers to directly connect their backup agents to the SAP HANA database. By automating the backup process, organizations can reduce the chances of human error, making it easier to enjoy the benefits of SAP HANA, deriving actionable information in near real time without worrying about potential data loss. Through Symantec NetBackup’s integration with SAP HANA, Symantec is providing customers a tested and certified backup and recovery solution for the SAP HANA platform.

Big data is a transformative technology for organizations due to the value it can bring in...

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Symantec Cooperates with SAP to Simplify Big Data Backups
Simon Jelley | 17 Jan 2013 | 0 comments

Big Data and Data Analytics are tremendously valuable tools for businesses today, delivering insights into every aspect of the business, from customer interactions to network security. But like any tool, it doesn’t have any value if you don’t know how to use it. This is where SAP HANA comes in. As a component of a Big Data solution, this new disruptive technology provides the in-memory database, which enables organizations to process both transactional and analytical workloads at incredible speeds—days to minutes, hours to seconds—allowing for more agile, data-driven business decisions.

Just like any other business information, however, Big Data can be impacted by downtime and disasters. Organizations are having a hard enough time backing up their traditional data storage. How can they be expected to handle hundreds or thousands of times as much information?

It’s simple – use the tools you’ve already invested in. Why waste...

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How to troubleshoot issues with a Robotic Library (autoloader/changer) and/or Tape Drive(s)
Donald Eady | 15 Jan 2013 | 1 comment

 

Alright… So just got that brand new or not so brand new Robotic Library (Autoloader/Changer) and or Tape Drive(s). Still bubble wrap / ship safe fresh, just unpacked and attached to the server and bam.. here comes the brick wall. The storage device is not displaying or perhaps the tape drives or libraries show up offline or worse yet they are not found, recognized or detected at all. What do you do? Well you have a couple of options you can spin once counter clockwise, blink your left eye, wiggle the mouse frantically, right click and see if its working now. Or you can take the suggested approach and follow this informative right down the golden paved road to the promise land of problem resolution.

From time to time hardware that despite being officially tested and supported by Symantec might show as offline, display incorrectly within the console, function outside of the way it was intended and or throw errors within the B.E. job log or windows event...

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Around BackupExec 2012
Walid | 09 Jan 2013 | 0 comments

 

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...

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Symantec System Recovery 2013 Delivers Powerful and Easy To Use System Protection for Windows Server 2012 and vSphere 5.1
Jerry Gowen | 07 Jan 2013 | 0 comments

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – January 7, 2013– Symantec Corp. today announced Symantec System Recovery 2013, providing organizations with comprehensive system protection with full platform support for Windows 8, Windows Server 2012 and vSphere 5.1. With the new version, system recovery is even more efficient and easier to manage with simplified installation, efficient backup and reconciliation, free centralized management, and easier issue diagnosis. Symantec System Recovery 2013 continues to allow companies to restore physical and virtual systems in minutes, even to bare metal, dissimilar hardware, remote locations, or virtual environments.

Click to Tweet: Symantec simplifies system recovery and provides comprehensive system protection for Windows 8 and...

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How to remove files that can not remove by 'You require permission from TrustedInstaller ...' on Windows Server 2008
Yasuhisa Ishikawa | 06 Jan 2013 | 0 comments

After verifying backups by restoring files to alternate location, it sometimes happens that we can not remove restored files by 'You require permission from TrustedInstaller to make changes to this file' error as Figure 1. This most likely happens when restoring system or program files. Owner of unremovable files is TrustedInstaller user, and only this user has full control right.

Figure 1 File Access Denied

Figure 2 Owner of unremovable files

Figure 3 Permissions of unremovable files

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SSR and Hyper-V_VM Protection
Mahesh_SSR_PM | 04 Jan 2013 | 0 comments

Hello all

I am making a blog post after a long time but now onwards I will be regular!

We keep getting queries on best practices/ways to protect Hyper-V VMs with SSR, so here is some useful information.

Two different Methods/strategies could be employed to protect virtual machines on Windows Server with Hyper-V role enabled environment:

 

Method 1: Host level backup

[Please note that for the backups to be crash consistent snapshot integration services should be installed in the guest machine.]

  1. Install Symantec System Recovery on the Windows Server with Hyper-V role enabled
  2. Take host backup. During backup please select OS volume and all related drives for backup. If OS volume and related drives are not backed up then user will not be able to restore.

As shown in screenshot below, all drives will be listed as related drives when Hyper-V role is enabled.

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Netbackup 7.0.1 java console hang
Manumohan | 28 Dec 2012 | 5 comments

Hi ,

Could any one please help. I have upgraded master server from 6.5.3 to 7.0 latter to 7.0.1

For administering backup i have installed java console 7.0.1 on one of the window server. But when ever i open java console getting hung cant even close the console.

i have checked setconf  int mem and max mem are ok. aut.conf also checked on Master server and have righ permission.

Master server is linux platform and sitting on DMZ,

Note: The other master server in the DMZ is able to administer using the same java console, that too in linux platform

Could any one find a solution for this?

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The (tiny) difference between not-so good and just awesome -Virtualization
zeboul0n | 12 Mar 2013 | 2 comments

 A new customer of ours has a quite nice 2-node, 2xCPU,  2x96GB RAM, 5x NIC VMware cluster with iSCSI SAN.

The virtual machines are all running Windows Server 2008 R2.
The problem is the former IT-partner didn't do all the things right when choosing and implementing a new virtualized environment.
 
  • 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 deduplication disk....
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New Release: Symantec Operations Readiness Tool 3.8
jmartin | 20 Dec 2012 | 0 comments

On December 18, 2012, Symantec completed another release of Symantec Operations Readiness Tool (SORT)! With SORT’s focus of improving the total customer experience for NetBackup and Storage Foundation customers, we’ve added the following features and improvements to the website: This release keeps pace with the latest NetBackup family compatibility lists and release related information and also adds important new functionality as listed below.

General

  • New capability to create email notifications when hot fixes/EEBs are fixed in a GA release.  This can be done via use of the SORT Notification widget or from within the Hot Fix / EEB Release Auditor widget.
  • Improved navigation capability for the NetBackup family of products in the Symantec Product and Platform Support Matrix
  • Support for NetBackup and OpsCenter 7.5.0.4 maintenance release in the installation and upgrade checklist and custom reports (...
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