Backup Software

File server backup and recovery tools

What software and schedule do you use to back up your file servers?

Software to automate backups for SQL Server 2008 databases

I am running SQL Server 2008 and I know how to create backups of this data manually using SQL managment studio but we are looking for a way to automate the process. Does anyone know of a product that can be utilized to do this? Or a way the managment studio can be set up to do this? It's not...

Event ID: 2803 and 17137 Question

I have recently installed SQL 2005 Express and Symantec Backup Exec for Windows 2003 SBS. I have not created any backup jobs and do not have an Active SQL DB just yet. However the following Information Events are being logged under Application Event every 5 minutes. Is this normal and is it...

Dont want to pay alot for a enterprise backup software

I have a customer that is on a tight budget and want to backup 20 servers remotley. Symantec and CA are all abou the same price 8-11k. Any enterprise backup software out there that is reliable and is a lower cost?

Exchange 2007 TSM GUI

After I installed the TSM Exchange TDP (Exchange 2007 CCR cluster) and tried to launch the GUI I got an error that the exchange server was unavailable. I did some digging and found out I had to launch the GUI from the tdp command line using tdpexc /excserver=exchangeservername on a clustered...

Embed date in SQLBase unload filename

I have a scheduled task to runs a backup script each night using a program called SQL_Talk for Windows version 9.0.1. I am using this program to unload a SQLBase database each night for backup purposes. I have a separate script for each night of the week. Below is the Monday script: set server...

Automatic backup of Windows Server 2003 and 2 XP machines

The following question was recently submitted by a user via e-mail: I want to set up automatic nightly backup of my PCs and server; I’m running a 2003 Windows server and 2 XP machines, both of which have 800 GB external USB hard drives. What utilities would you recommend?

How Volume Shadow Copy works in Windows system?

Hi, I am curious how "Volume Shadow Copy" works in Windows system. I understand that during a Windows backup, the Windows actually creates a volume shadow copy of your data to create an accurate point-in-time copy of the contents of your hard drive, including any open files or files that are being...

What is the best storage/backup solution?

What is the best storage/backup solution?

Backup Exec 11d Catalog problem

I just installed Backup Exec 11d on a Windows 2003 server with sp2. I am using an Ultrium lto2 tape drive. It works fine except I have two tapes filled with data that were created on a different installation. One tape went through inventory and catalog fine. The other goes through inventory, but...

Combining HSM and Backups

Were looking at replacing our tape backup system, and at the same time were thinking our expending our storage by getting a HSM solution. What we are not sure of is whether these two issue should be combined. My original vision was that a good tape based HSM system (Tivoli,...) and a tape...

How to backup a SQL Server on a different Domain.

We have just upgraded our admin server, which has an SQL database running on it. This server is also on a different domain from the backup server, which is running Backup Exec 12. Has anyone got any ideas on how we can connect to this server from the backup server that is on a different domain ?

cross platform netwok backup

My supervisor would like to put together a network backup solution for a small lab (about 15 people give or take). We have people using macs and pcs (running both win xp and vista) as well as a linux nas which holds our database. We are looking for a way to backup data from all of the...

bright store arcserve exchange 2003 backup

can i restore a full exchange database from a ducument levelbackup and how ? i have ver 11.5 r

Library SAVF restore

Our backup procedure backs up our libraries to SAVFs and in the early morning copies the SAVFs to tape (with seq.#). This speeds up the backup process so that our overnight shifts are not down for a long period of time. Now my question what would be the fastest way to restore a library that is...