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New forum discussion 22 Aug 2011

Blinky posted: BE2010 Synthetic and SAN based backup at same time?

I need a solution Hello, We have just purchased our BE2010 licenses and are looking towards moving to implement this. We would like to utilise the SAN level backups as these appear to have advantages in lowering the loa

discussion comment 25 Jun 2010

Blinky commented on: BESR 2010 stuck at 95% updating history

Did you ever get to the bottom of this? I have at least 2 servers that have exactly the same issue. Deleting the history file does not resolve the problem, in fact on looking at the hostory file I could see it had been updated when ...

New forum discussion 02 Feb 2010

Blinky posted: BESR Restore of Virtual Machine

I need a solution I have a Virtual server that I need to restore (This is VMWare ESX3.5) and I am booting from the BESR ISO, mapping a drive to the NAS device holding the backups and I also force the NIC to 100MB Full (It origina

discussion comment 28 Jan 2010

Blinky commented on: Backup Exec System Recovery 2010 Management Solution - backup policy

Markus, Could you explain how to create custom groups as this is a feature I am really looking to implement but as I dont know Altiris I cannot figure it out!

New forum discussion 27 Jan 2010

Blinky posted: SRD CD Wont load on a Dell R710 server

I need a solution When I boot the BESR2010 SRD disc on a Dell R710 server I get an error Windows - No Disk and an Exception Processing Message as shown in the screenshot. Any ideas what this means and how to resolve it?

discussion comment 21 Jan 2010

Blinky commented on: How to exclude a drive from reporting/alerting

Ah... I See you cannot fo it centrally but you can do it locally on the machine. OK will check that out!

New forum discussion 15 Jan 2010

Blinky posted: How to exclude a drive from reporting/alerting

I need a solution How do I exclude a drive from being reported as being 'at risk'? We have quite a few servers with drives that we dont back up - test/dev servers where we only backup the C Drive. In previous versions o

discussion comment 15 Jan 2010

Blinky commented on: Backup Exec System Recovery 2010 Management Solution - backup policy

Hi John, I have/had the same query John! I cannot find a way to create my own policies as I would ideally like to place a number of servers in a group and apply a job tho them centrally. Anyway the way around your problem is ...

discussion comment 30 Dec 2009

Blinky commented on: 15 minutes restore.. just an illusion..... :-(

I would restore just the C Drive partition again. I have had it in the past where I have inadvertantly ticked the 'make volume bootable' on one of the data volumes.

discussion comment 30 Dec 2009

Blinky commented on: Cannot push Altiris Agent

I am not sure I understand what you mean..... I am logged in to the management console as a domain admin. It's when I try to push an agent to another machine by clicking the 'select computers' button - See screenshot, that I get this ...

New forum discussion 30 Dec 2009

Blinky posted: Cannot push Altiris Agent

I need a solution I have ran an AD Import and have a little green tick next to the rul eto indicate it ran successfully but whenever I try and push the Altiris agent and click on the Select Computers button I get a message saying

New forum discussion 30 Dec 2009

Blinky posted: Creating groups / Pushing the clients/backup policies to muiltiple servers

I need a solution At the moment when selecting a computer to have the agent or a backup job applied I go to the 'Apply To' drop down and select 'Computers', once in there I then have to create a rule that says

New forum discussion 11 Dec 2009

Blinky posted: Migrating from previous BESR manager version

I need a solution We are currently evaluating BESR2010 and at the moment we have BESR8.5 with BESR Manager as well. I read a document that stated when migrating from BESR Manager the management control option will be uninstalled

discussion comment 10 Dec 2009

Blinky commented on: How to run a scheduled backup job manually/outside of schedule

Chris, So Symantec have really thought this one out - lets give our customers a central MANAGEMENT console but not give them the ability to centrally run a backup........ So if one night an ESX server fails that had say 50 virtual ...

discussion comment 10 Dec 2009

Blinky commented on: How to run a scheduled backup job manually/outside of schedule

So is there no way to run a backup - say the server missed it's backup for whatever reason, is there no way to manually run it? I am thinking specifically of nightly incrementals if say Tuesday's incremental backup was missed (Server BSOD, ...

New forum discussion 10 Dec 2009

Blinky posted: How to run a scheduled backup job manually/outside of schedule

I need a solution I have created a backup policy and applied it to a machine, I am wondering what I would do in order to manually run the job? Say I wanted to create a new full backup during the day, how would I do this? I

discussion comment 10 Dec 2009

Blinky commented on: How to apply BESR 2010 job to 1 machine

Thanks Chris - I never saw your posting! Thanks for the quick response, although I am about to post another question!

discussion comment 10 Dec 2009

Blinky commented on: How to apply BESR 2010 job to 1 machine

It's ok - I found it on p117 of the manual!

New forum discussion 10 Dec 2009

Blinky posted: How to apply BESR 2010 job to 1 machine

I need a solution I have created a new backup policy and i would like to apply this to only a single machine however when I click the app button I dont see any option that would allow this!

discussion comment 04 Dec 2009

Blinky commented on: Destination Storage tab not updating

Bump.... Has nobody any idea?

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