vranger backups
I recently updated vrangerpro to the most current version. Since the update I am getting errors that “Error: An error occurred during backup operations: Unable to launch the File Transfer Daemon process. The process has been launched by another application.” The majority of the backups complete successfully and it is different ones that are failing [...]

Answer Question   |  April 7, 2009  6:11 PM
Backup, VMware, vRanger Pro

Backup of encrypted data to USB device
I’m using Ultimaco encryption software and I’m looking for any software/utility that can read files from an encrypted hard drive and copy the data to a USB device. I need to be able to do this for OS disaster recovery in the event of a crash. Any suggestions or recommendations are appreciated. Thank you. Moderator [...]

Answer Question   |  June 9, 2009  3:59 PM
Backup, Data Encryption, Disaster Recovery, Encrypted files, Encryption, USB devices, Utimaco

USB 1.0 to connect to a USB 2.0 external hard drive
I have an old laptop with a 1.0 USB but it has all my pictures on them. I would like to move them to an external hard drive, but I can’t find one that is compatible. How can I download all of my files to a hard drive? Is it practical to do it over [...]

Answer Question   |  April 1, 2009  11:33 PM
Backup, External hard drives, USB hard drives

Downgrading Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 to 11D?
Has anyone successfully downgraded Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 to version 11d? Thanks. Moderator Note: This is a user submitted question

Answer Question   |  March 30, 2009  5:14 PM
Backup, Downgrade Symantec Backup Exec, Symantec Backup Exec, Symantec Backup Exec 11D, Symantec Backup Exec 12.5

Looking for a good hard drive for backup
Looking to backup 2 laptops..both are in gigabytes. How and what kind of hard drive would hold both? I want to backup boths laptops on it..

Answer Question   |  November 2, 2011  3:59 AM
Backup, External hard drives, Laptop backup

Backup to an external drive
How can I specify as target drive an ext. drive.? Right now a: is only option. Am using W XP Home Edition

Answer Question   |  November 1, 2011  12:47 AM
Backup, Backup and Recovery Hardware, External hard drives

How to configure disaster recovery with BrightStor ARCserve Backup
i wanna know how to make disaster recovery to the arcserve backup?

Answer Question   |  April 15, 2011  8:41 AM
ARCserve Backup 12, Backup, BrightStor ARCserve Backup 12, Disaster Recovery, Disaster recovery planning

Export catalogs in Veritas Backup Exec 10.0
How to export catalogs in veritas Backup Exec 10.0

Answer Question   |  March 20, 2009  7:09 AM
Backup, Server Backup, Veritas Backup Exec 10

RAID 5 configuration on Dell PowerEdge 2800 hard disk failure
Using DELL Poweredge 2800 with a Raid 5 configuration of 2 hard drives capacity 85GB Ultra 320 SCSI. Hard disks have been showing failure. I tried to bring the hard drives ONLINE by FORCE option provided in the utility manager to configure RAID and got the hard drives up but couldn’t login to windows server [...]

Answer Question   |  March 17, 2009  5:57 PM
Backup, Dell PowerEdge 2800, iSCSI, RAID, RAID 5, RAID configuration, Restore, Windows Server 2003

Backup Exec 12 daylight savings issue
Scheduled jobs on Backup Exec 12 have missed their scheduled time since daylight savings The server and client have the right time but cant seem to fix the problem.

Answer Question   |  March 17, 2009  2:09 PM
Backup, Backup Exec, Backup Exec 12, Backup Exec Error Messages

Issues with BRMS Network Group
When you go to BRMS Menu –> Policy Administration –> System Policy –> Change Network Group, you can see all the Boxes connected each other. There are 5 LPARS in total. It shows Network Status INACTIVE on one while the others shows ACTIVE. and receive media info is set to none What steps would you [...]

Answer Question   |  March 18, 2009  11:57 AM
AS/400 backup, Backup, Backup Recovery and Media Services, BRMS, BRMS Control Group, BRMS Network Group, iSeries backup, LPAR

Electronic invoicing
How can I reduce time spent on backup documentation for invoices issued to customers. We currrently serve 150 customers with approx.100 services.

Answer Question   |  March 31, 2011  1:46 PM
Backup, Electronic invoices

Windows Live mail downloads folder
Hi There i am facing one problem that is when i am checking mail at my windows live mail and wants to take backup of that inbox , i am unable to do so . can anyone help me in this regard and in which folder these mails downloads ?

Answer Question   |  March 6, 2009  6:42 AM
Backup, Email Backup, Windows Live

Hyper-V guest backup problem
Using 64 bit full windows servers – hyper v host. The virtual guests are all 32 bit windows server 2003. My dpm server is a physical host – 32 bit windows with all the most recent patches and service packs. When i try to backup a single folder (any subdirectory) in the hyper-v HOST, it [...]

Answer Question   |  March 3, 2009  3:09 PM
Backup, Hyper-V, Hyper-V Backup, Hyper-V Guest, Virtual Server 2005, Windows Server 2003

ROI calculator for online PC backup
Has anyone built a ROI calculator for online PC backup vs. fileshare? I think the hard part is the enforcement of users backing up important files to teh fileshare, and it they don’t… then you are SOL.. byt how do you calculate that cost into the calculator. I would love to see if somebody already [...]

Answer Question   |  December 2, 2009  4:52 PM
Backup, Backup & recovery, Backup and recovery management software, Online Backup, PC Backup

Backup Exec 11d error message on Information Store backup
i get “Access is denied” errors in Backup Exec 11d when it attempts to backup a Information Store for Exchange 2007 using a windows server 2003 User submitted question

Answer Question   |  March 3, 2009  2:49 PM
Backup, Backup Exec, Backup Exec 11d, Exchange 2007, Exchange Backup, Exchange Information Store, Windows Server 2003

VHD backup for Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V Server
Looking for suggestions or recommendations for a VHD backup system for Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V Server. I need the ability to specify individual Virtual Machines with different backup schedules. Thanks. Moderator Note: This is a user submitted question

Answer Question   |  March 23, 2009  2:59 PM
Backup, Hyper-V, Scheduled Backup, VHD backup, Virtual Hard Disk, Virtual Machines, Windows Server 2008

Backup procedure
Can someone explaine to me what is synthetic Full backup incremantal for ever type of backup what do you sugest or use what are the incidence of using that in a recovery or restore mode thanks

Answer Question   |  February 24, 2009  5:54 PM
Backup, Backup & recovery, Incremental backup, Synthetic Full Backup

Bandwidth estimation for EMC MirrorView
I have a EMC clarion array at my primary site and one at my secondary site the distance is roughly 15 miles. I am using a product called Mirror ASync. which is a EMC array based replication tool. I have a RTO of 30 minutes. data rate of change is aprox. 50 GB per day [...]

Answer Question   |  March 4, 2009  12:59 AM
Backup, Bandwidth, EMC CLARiiON, EMC MirrorView, Recovery Time Objective, Replication, RTO, Storage analysis, Storage capacity planning

LTO Ultrium Tape Labels
We use Ultruim 2 Tape cartridges in our ExaByte Magnum 1X7 LTO tape drive. Is there a source for the proper sized labels and a program that will create the bar code labels for these tapes? Currently we create these labels in MS-Word, and then cut down standard sized Avery labels but it is a [...]

Answer Question   |  June 18, 2010  3:42 PM
Backup, ExaByte Magnum 1X7 LTO tape drive, Tape backup, Tape libraries, Ultrium, Ultrium LTO-2 Tape Drives