Backup Exec Blog

Welcome to the Backup Exec Blog! Here you will hear the latest news and views from the Backup Exec product team.

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  Updated: Drew Meyer 08 May 2013

  Third-Party Evaluations of Backup Exec

  We remain on track to deliver the two new Service Packs for Backup Exec in July, bringing long-awaited platform support and quality enhancements to market. As you watch (or beta test) and evaluate your next moves, several helpful new pieces have been published by 3rd party analyst firms on the value of Backup Exec in a multi-platform environment. Note: some may require very a mild registration.   Three on Backup Exec 2012: From the 451 Group: Symantec preps New Release of Backup Exec as it Prepares to Fend off VM-Only Backup Vendors From ESG: Assessing the TCO of Unified vs. Parallel Backup Solutions for Virtual Environments From ESG:...
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  Created: Drew Meyer 30 Apr 2013

  Rock the Vote at VMworld!

  Hey everyone, we're attending VMworld this year and we've got the most awesome story to tell you about our own real-life software-defined datacenter. The Symantec internal IT team uses our own stuff to provision complete environments - yes, networks, servers, applications, configured on the fly - for deployment on demand to any of Symantec's global users. If you want to see it and hear from the guys who built it, vote us up here: http://ow.ly/kz6Qj Symantec IT’s Real-World Experience with a VMware Software-Defined Data Center  There are other great sessions to see too. Exercise your right! Demand the topics you want to hear! http://ow.ly/kz5h9 Session 5851 with @...
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  Created: Kate Lewis 22 Apr 2013

  Backup Exec™ Management Plug-in for Kaseya® Out Now!

  I am pleased to announce that the Backup Exec™ Management Plug-in for Kaseya® version 1.1 SP1 is out now! This plug-in enables Kaseya users to remotely monitor the Backup Exec servers from within the Kaseya Virtual System Administrator™ (VSA) console. Through the use of Kaseya VSA console, this plug-in provides the following monitoring information: Status of the backup tasks that ran on the Backup Exec servers. Active alerts generated on the Backup Exec servers. State of the storage devices and amount of space available on the disk-based storage devices that are configured with the Backup Exec servers. Various monitoring reports, such as active alerts, backup job history, license usage summary, and discovered machines summary report are also available with this plug-in. For more information and to download the Backup Exec Management Plug-in for Kaseya installation package, please visit:...
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  Updated: Drew Meyer 27 Mar 2013

  Schedule Update for the next releases of Backup Exec

  We've been discussing this topic across a number of threads lately, so I thought I'd drop it here for all to see. The development team has been extremely focused on quailty enhancements, as reflected in the last Hotfix released February 20th. It's had over 20,000 downloads without logging a single traceable support event. Next up are two Service Packs, about to drop as beta code. Both are arriving at the same time; both are automatically delivered via the auto-update server when they reach General Availabilty and both apply to the software and the appliance. They are called: Backup Exec 2010 R3 SP3 Backup Exec 2012 SP2 The public beta release is in May and it represents the largest production-ready, white-glove, on-site testing activity that we have ever done. For more information or to join the nearly 2000 users that are already signed up, check out the...
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  Created: Kate Lewis 22 Mar 2013

  Your chance to be famous

  Happy Friday Morning! It's coming up to 9.00 am here in California and so far it's turning out to be a beautiful day. The sky is blue, the sun is out in full force and the landscape around me is simply stunning.  One of the projects I am working on today is the creation of a Backup Exec show real and I wanted to give everyone the opportunity to be featured in this video is some shape or form. I am looking for statements and fun facts about Backup Exec in regards to what makes it special and standout against the competition. If you have an exhilarating, exciting, astonishing or incredible (you get the idea!) fact or story and would like to provide a quote, please get in touch with me. The top 3 responses as judged by my Product Marketing Director (Drew Meyer) will be featured in this video. To make you feel comfortable, I also wanted to let you know that we would never use your name, title or...
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  Created: ALJohnson 11 Mar 2013

  Symantec AutoSupport for Backup Appliances is now LIVE

  Have you ever wondered if your appliance issues can be resolved even before they appear at your end? ( i.e a system that proactively monitors your appliances and automates issue resolution.)  Symantec is committed to simplifying and improving support experiences for its customers. Built on the service automation strategy, Symantec AutoSupport framework provides proactive and automated support services to its appliance customers. Starting February 4, Symantec Secure Operations Center ( SOC), an integral part of AutoSupport, began monitoring backup appliances all over the world, processing the alerts received from Symantec NetBackup and Backup Exec appliances, creating support tickets with field services for hardware related issues and Enterprise Support Services for non-hardware related issues. Symantec AutoSupport needs the CallHome functionality be enabled on the backup appliances and a registration of the appliance at the MyAppliance web portal (...
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  Updated: Kate Lewis 07 Mar 2013

  Symantec’s response to the “DCIG 2013 Virtual Server Backup Software Buyer’s Guide”

  Last week DCIG published their annual Virtual Server Backup Software Buyer’s Guide, which featured a short write up of over 20 Backup and Recovery solutions and point products. In this guide, CommVault achieved the "Best-in-Class" ranking, NetBackup achieved “Recommended” ranking while Backup Exec 2012 received an “Excellent” ranking for Virtual Server Backup Software. It is important to note some facts: This “Guide” is created by an analyst firm DCIG and technology advisory firm, SMB Research. But, it is distributed EXCLUSIVELY by CommVault, not DCIG. When you visit DCIG’s website (http://www.dcig.com/free-dcig-downloads.html) and click on the title “DCIG 2011 Virtual Server Backup Software Buyer's Guide” it takes you to a CommVault webpage! As a...
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  Created: Nick Elmer 27 Feb 2013

  Using a custom SQL instance with Backup Exec installs.

    Oh, where do I start...it has been a little while since my last post, and that is primarily because I volunteered for a new role within our department. My role now allows me to focus 100% of my time on issues that matter to you, and that is exactly what I have been doing since the beginning of the year! It is an awesome opportunity for me (and my peers who joined me), so that you will ultimately reap the benefits of our labor. I can say that there have been many long nights and weekends invested so far, and I know that the final results will yield many satisfied customers. That means more to me than you will ever know! It is the sole reason I volunteered, and it is what motivates me every day. Thank you for being a loyal customer! So, part of my efforts recently led me to a topic which I have not covered before. That topic is using a custom SQL server instance with Backup Exec. We have supported it for many years now, but there are some impacts you should...
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  Created: PackMatt73 22 Feb 2013

  Review: Symantec Backup Exec 2012 Is a Recovery Solution SMBs Can Rely On

  Great review from @JasonHolbert at Biztech Magazine Review: Symantec Backup Exec 2012 Is a Recovery Solution SMBs Can Rely On Small Business Edition sports a new interface aimed at easing common backup and recovery tasks. by Jason Holbert posted Feb 22, 2013 inShare     Few companies have dedicated backup administrators anymore. Today’s IS managers regard backups as little more than a bullet point in a long list of daily responsibilities....
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  Updated: PackMatt73 01 Feb 2013

  Backup Exec is doing AMAs on Reddit. Do you go to these? You really should.

  Greetings Earthlings (well, most of you at least) After a great engagement in November, the Backup Exec team went back to Reddit for more last week. We lived through our first AMA and came out better people for it. The transcript from that event has been a topic of conversation in Engineering, Product Management and even in some executive leadership meetings.  We wanted to hear more, only this time, we were focusing on virtualization.  Since we wanted to narrow the focus a little bit, this is an AM(Almost)A because we had assembled some key creators of the Backup Exec virtualization strategy. The event was again a success.  We garnered roughly a 70% approval rating on over 200 votes.  All told, there were over...