Evaluating
rickyrak
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March 11th, 2010
Hello Everyone -
I am new to the forum and working with Symantec products for some time now. I am somewhat new to Enterprise Vault but have seen a few demo and have a basic understanding. In my meetings with Symantec reps, I understood it should be pretty straight forward to install and setup. It would require 2 servers (1 for EV, and 1 for SQL) and then the Vault store (we will use Etherchannel EMC Celerra box CIFS store).
My question to everyone -
Is it really that easy to install? I am reading the installation manual and it seems straight forward, but I want to be sure. I have an implementer who is charging a sky rocket price, and I want to try at least the installation on my own, and maybe some configuration.
Can anyone provide a bulleted high level steps? Which software needs to be installed? What is required to install? I am only doing EV and Discovery Accelerator and have only...
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MIXIT
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March 9th, 2010
Just wondering but for a single-server office is there a compelling argument to use BE instead of BESR? It seems that BESR, despite some bugs and what not, is generally designed as a better product for this purpose.
Further on this point, since BESR Server edition supports single-console management for multiple servers, what does regular BE have that BESR doesn't?
I have to pleasd ignorance as my experience with regular BE is limited to basic admin tasks only. I know there is probably a comparison chart out there somewhere (and if such exists, feel free to post link or I will if I find it first), but I'm mostly interested in the opinion of anybody knowledgable and/or experienced with both products.
Thanks!
Backup and Archiving, Best Practice, Compatibility, Backup Exec System Recovery, Evaluating, Features, Tip/How to
6 comments
symantec007
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March 8th, 2010
I am learning how to use Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 2.5. I just created a Boot Disk in one my machine. Can I use this disk to do image creation on my other machines? or I have to create the Boot Disk from the machine that I want to create image from? thanks
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Schybanas
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March 7th, 2010
Hi,
I'm evaluating Symantec Endpoint Protection and so far my
impressions are, go back to Eset.
I downloaded some test viruses from eicar which Symantec
found after it was downloaded while Eset stopped it before it downloaded
although that’s not too big a problem. Another minor problem is that when i downloaded
the test file it just disappears, no prompt or any sort of notification, the
file isn’t under the "view quarantine tab", so how would i get a file
back if i wanted to? But my biggest
problem is auto protect. It constantly takes up 100% of my cpu and seems to be
finding a never ending stream of .tmp files somehow related to the test virus.
I left the computer on overnight and in the morning it was still going.
Can
somebody tell me why it’s doing this and if i fix it as i really want to like
it.
Thankyou,
Schybanas
Security, 11.x, Error messages, Evaluating, Features, Windows, Endpoint Protection (AntiVirus), Troubleshooting
7 comments
cviniciusm
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March 5th, 2010
Hello,
Use case:
- One Master Server 6.5.4 on Windows Server 2003 (6 drives LTO-3).
- One Media Server 6.5.4 on Windows Server 2003 (3 drives shared).
- VBR 6.6.2 on Windows Server 2003.
- The NetBackup Remote Administration Console and Agent VBR are installed on the VBR host..
The agent data collector is not getting media and tape drive information, see following:
"
Data Collector Status: Enabled
Data Type: Media
Server Last Successful Data Load: Never Reported
Agent Last Successful Data Load: Never Reported
Last Run Time: 2010-03-05 16:02:08
Collection Status: Failed
Last Exception Message: A2015: External proc...
Records Collected: 0
Data Type: Tape Drive Information
Server Last Successful Data Load: Never Reported
Agent Last Successful Data Load: Never Reported
Last Run Time: 2010-03-05 16:02:37
Collection Status: Failed
Last Exception Message: A2015: External proc...
Records Collected: 0"
Any ideas, please?
TIA.
Backup and Archiving, Case Study, Error messages, Evaluating, OpsCenter Analytics (Backup Reporter), Windows, Monitoring, Troubleshooting
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Jenefa
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March 5th, 2010
Hello All,
I need to backup or ghost a oracle server (Windows) and then restore it to a completely different hardware with new raid cards.
Is it possible to do this in Altris.
Does anyone have any experience doing some thing like this.
Any one can help me or point me in the right direction, i would appreciate it.
I am seriously looking for this kind of disater recovery software.
Thanks
Jenefa
Backing Up, Backup and Archiving, Backup Exec System Recovery, Evaluating, Oracle, Features, Windows, Recovering, Tip/How to, Troubleshooting
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Vikram Kumar-SA...
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March 5th, 2010
Do we have Scripts for running ESM Policy Runs or can you tell me what is this CLI command to run a policy run externally.
5 comments
davemswift
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March 1st, 2010
Hi,
I am evaluating Backup Exec 2010, and when creating a new job I am unable to select my Exchange Resources for backup.
The current environment is 1x CAS/Hub Transport Server and 2x Mailbox Servers (CCR Cluster).
I have installed the exchange agent and deployed the remote agent to all servers, however I still am unable to see any Exchange Resources.
Any ideas?
Agents, 2010, Backup and Archiving, Backup Exec, Compatibility, Evaluating, Tip/How to, Troubleshooting
7 comments
HiveFives
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February 25th, 2010
Hello All,
I have a question and I'm hoping someone has seen this issue before. We've just installed Evault 8.0 SP3 on a Windows 2003 box and we've vaulted a few mailboxes for testing.
Every user that's been vaulted gets the same error: "There was an error loading this item -- some functionality may not be available".
When we grant an individual user local adminstrator on the evault server, the message opens fine. For obvious reasons, we can't use that solution for our users. The service account has local administrator on the EV server, and full permissions on the user's accounts.
Has anyone seen this before? Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
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Tweety
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February 24th, 2010
My users are getting HTML spam messages (no text in email just HTML images and embedded links). Syamntec Mail Security/Spam Filter is not catching any of them. The From: Address changes in each email (so I cannot blcok by domain) and so does the subject (so I cannot block by subject but there is no text in the email, just HTML images and embedded links. Is there any way to just block all emails containing HTML in the body?
We are running the latest of of Mail Security for MS Exchange and Anti-Spam add-on as of last week (just upgraded)..
Agents, Defense & Intelligence, Emerging Threats, Security, Evolution of Security, Basics, Internet Security Threat Report, Best Practice, Dell, IT Risk Management, LiveUpdate, Case Study, Malicious Code, Online Fraud, Security Risks, Compatibility, Configuring, Spam, Documentation, Vulnerabilities & Exploits, Downloads, MS Exchange, Error messages, Evaluating, Features, Installing, Integration, Patch, Performance, Reporting, Rules, Tip/How to, Training, Troubleshooting, Upgrade, Mail Security for Exchange/Domino
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Christovan153
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February 23rd, 2010
How do you silently install a single file EXE file that WPS8 has created?
the single file exe in question has my packaged app + MS Visual C++ 2005 runtime library as a prereq.
I can get it to supress the redistributable's license popup (/Q in command line options)... but I can't seem to get the actual WPS8 generated EXE file to run silently... once the redist. gets installed, the install process continues and I get the normal package install dialog boxes...
doing a <singlefilexe>.EXE /Q or /QUIET or /S or /SILENT does not seem to work to supress the actual install after the prereq gets installed.
any ideas?
Basics, Endpoint Management and Virtualization, Evaluating, Installing, Windows, Wise Application Packaging
12 comments
srinivas masetty
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February 21st, 2010
Hi All,
I have downloaded VCS trial ware ( SxRT-5.0MP3-2008-09-11a.dvd2-sol_x64.tar ). When I am trying to install, it is asking me to enter Licence key.
Please advice me
Clustering, Storage and Clustering, High availability, Evaluating, Installing, Cluster Server, Licensing
5 comments
phil samg
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February 19th, 2010
Created by: Silverton Consulting, Inc. StorInt™ Briefing
Symantec Corporation and its hardware partner have recently released outstanding performance results achieved under the independent SPECsfs® 2008 benchmark(1). In two critical performance measures of the benchmark, the duo posted near the top results against its similarly benchmarked competitors. Such results are the first to incorporate Symantec’s FileStore product and represent a sizable jump over previous NFS storage system performance reported by other vendors.
The background
Symantec, providing its FileStore product version 5.0.2, was operating on Huawei-Symantec storage and server hardware to achieve the benchmark results. The hardware had 960-300/15Krpm Seagate SAS disk drives providing over 233 TB of raw capacity. The configuration also had 20 storage controllers with 4GB of cache each connected via 4GB FC links. As to the server environment, the system had 12 Intel Dual-Core Xeon processor cluster...
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rajesh@yashasvi...
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February 18th, 2010
Hi ,
I would like to know whether can i take complete linux file system backup using Backup Exec.
If yes Please Guide Me How to perform this .
Thanks in Advanced
Regards
Rajesh N
10.x and Earlier, 11.x, Backing Up, Basics, Backup and Archiving, Best Practice, Dell, Symantec Event, Case Study, Backup Exec, Vision, Linux, Evaluating, Installing, Restore
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btowne
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February 18th, 2010
How do I remotely troubleshoot an agent without logging into the machine?
"Remote Altiris Agent Diagnostics" (RAAD) version 2 expands on the diagnostic checks and remediation actions performed by RAAD version 1 (KB 45023) to allow those checks and actions against a list of machines and not just the one machine. The Health Checks in RAAD version 2 are designed to take a look at the state of the Altiris solution plug-ins such as Patch, Task, SWD and Recovery to determine if they are working properly. Version 2 also allows the ability to run a Custom Inventory XML against the set of machines and return the results immediately so you can customize your own health check. You can examine more in-depth details of the Agents using the Diagnostics tab which is essentially RAAD version 1. The biggest advantage with version 2 is that you can run remediation actions such as Configuration Request and Start Patching Cycle against as many machines as you'd like and all at once.
The process...
Agents, Altiris Client Management Suite, Basics, Altiris Notification Server, Best Practice, Altiris Recovery Solution, Altiris Server Management Suite, Endpoint Management and Virtualization, User Group, Vision, Configuring, Downloads, Error messages, Evaluating, Features, Installing, Patch, Dell Management Products, Reporting, Tip/How to, Troubleshooting, Uninstall, HP Management Products, pcAnywhere, Symantec Connect, Symantec Vision
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Swapnil Durgade
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February 16th, 2010
Hi VxVM Engineering Team,
Disk Groups rebuilds are one of the most common and very frequently done activity in Tech Support.
One of the common problems we face is, if the LUN headers are corrupt and the LUN goes in "online invalid" state, we struggle to find DM to DA name matching. Most of the time it's a guess work based on "d" in c#t#d# from CBR.
If customer wants exact 100% match, then
1] we look into VRTSExplorer collected before the problem
2] Then we do DM to LUN Serial Number mapping
3] Then we compare that to current LUNs' serial number and build the mapping.
Most of the time, OLD VRTSExplorer is not available. So we could not find previous DM to LUN Serial Number mapping
So if you could please introduce serial_number and last_serial number as attributes of DM object that will be stored in private region, It will really healp us speedup the recovery.
One the same lines, we struggle to get puboffset, privoffset, publen, privlen,...
AIX, In Review, Backing Up, Storage and Clustering, Best Practice, HP-UX, Linux, Configuring, Evaluating, Solaris, Recovering, Restore, Storage Foundation
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mclemson
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February 11th, 2010
We use CMS to manage our desktops, and our server guys all agree that makes sense. After all, the desktops are so similar! But when it comes to servers, they say, "We wouldn't use Altiris SMS! All of our servers are different, nothing is the same. We patch Windows using WSUS." (The server team manages servers without any automation or monitoring or scripts, except for WSUS, but they use manual installation and manual reboots.)
So I have a few questions:
Is it fair or unfair to compare SMS to CMS? Is SMS basically CMS for servers?
Why use SMS in our environment if all servers really are different (100 servers, mix physical/VM, mix of OS with 60 Windows, rest ESX, Linux, Solaris, etc.)?
What benefits did you receive by implementing SMS?
I see a lot of threads regarding monitoring. Is the primary benefit of SMS monitoring? (As opposed to CMS, where the primary benefit is automation?)
Feel free to point me in any...
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lorienna
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February 9th, 2010
Hi there,
We are getting ready to migrate to CMS 7.0 and would like to know from those that have, did you also upgrade your asset management client or stay at version 6. What issues did you face?
When did AM 7 come out?
Is there a demo anywhere?
thanks
Altiris IT Asset Management, Basics, Best Practice, State & Local Government, Endpoint Management and Virtualization, Error messages, Evaluating, Features, Installing, Windows, Tip/How to
3 comments
Vishal Kadam
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February 9th, 2010
Hi,
Iam evaluating Puredisk for MS SQL 2005 Database in terms of Deduplication ratio. I loaded the database using Red-gate software and backed up using Backup Exec which has MS SQL agent. I backed up the same database using puredisk 6.6, but the backup data size is not same as backup exec. Backed up Data size is less in Backup Exec than Puredisk. I use to shrink the log file size before these backups. This is also true when increasing the data size in database and performing a differential backup using Backup Exec and puredisk. Data backed up using Backexec is less compared to puredisk.
I wanted to know is there any best practise for evaluating MS SQL 2005 database deduplication in terms of number of tables, data types, data loading etc.
Thank you!
Vishal
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JSD
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February 5th, 2010
We have recently deployed a NAS which is connected via iSCSI to a Windows Server 2008 Standard SP-2. Initially BESR 2010 was creating recovery points, but now it keeps stalling at 5%. It appears the recovery point is created on the mounted drive and the correct size, but the backup job never finishes correctly. It just sits there.
Within 24 hours the job moved from 5% to 11% and has still not completed, but the size of the backup file on the iSCSI NAS volume appears correct. I have not found anything in the Symantec KB and as we are at the Trial stage and testing this for customer there is no current support contract.
One thing I have tried is turning off the "verification" of the recovery point as there was a KB article (although not entirely related), but it does not appear to make any difference.
The network connection to the NAS is fine as another server running Windows Server 2003 is backing up just fine to it.
Any suggestions would be much...
Backing Up, Backup and Archiving, Configuring, Backup Exec System Recovery, Evaluating, Windows, Performance
2 comments
jensja
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February 3rd, 2010
For a customer I bought BEWS 12.5 for SBS Premium. The SBS is installed as a virtual machine in Server 2008 with hyper-v role.
So I ran into the same problem as described here: www.symantec.com/connect/de/forums/backup-exec-sbs-2008-sbs-hyper-v-guest
I asked Symantec tech support, how to install BEWS 12.5 on this setup, but until today they were not able to help.
Following the advice from tech support I ran the testing version of the server product. But when I called support a few days ago, they gave me no replacement license to continue using it. (Instead they opened a new case and keep sending useless notifications)
Before I test BEWS 2010 I need to know if the SBS variant is still as crippled as the 12.5 and thus useless in a virtualized SBS 2008 environment, or if Symantec has become aware of this shortcoming and made it possible to use their costly product this time.
12.x, 2010, Backup and Archiving, Backup Exec, Compatibility, MS Exchange, Evaluating, Features, Windows, Upgrade, Virtualization
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David McMullin
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January 29th, 2010
I added an IDEA to allow users to save and or define views/sort/filters in JAVA admin console so you can share a view, or load the display to match another, then switch back easily, check it out and VOTE if you like it...
Also I encourage you to review the recent ones, and VOTE for the ones you like, or if you have an IDEA - post it!
I think this forum is an excellent resource, please use it!
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David McMullin
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January 29th, 2010
We have created a bunch of interesting ideas (ok, some not so interesting).
It would be nice to have some procedure to have them checked (sort of like solutions in forum posts?) as being implemented - with rewards for that as well...
Perhaps a second option to mark them as review and discarded, so we would know that they had been reviewed.
It seems sometimes like we send our ideas out into a void, with no response that they are being acted on.
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ZeNick
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January 28th, 2010
Hello,
I launched the reparation of one of the archive journal index 2 weeks ago and today, it's still running.
That does not surprise me.
But I'd like to know if it exists any tool, log, or anything else that could give me any information about how long it will be running?
Many thanks for your help,
Regards
4 comments
AhMeR
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January 27th, 2010
Good day All,
I have created a Device pool. I included tape drive, one removable disk storage and one backup to disk folder.
I can assign priority to tape drive by selecting tape drive properties but unable to assign priority to removable storage and backup to disk folder.
I checked properties of both devices but assigning priority is not available.
How can I assign priorities to these devices?
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