Symantec Backup Exec 2010 media management
What is the best practice in the retention or use period of backup tapes? Is it advisable that backup tapes are retained or use only until the expiration dates recommended by the manufacturer? Is the Symantec Backup Exec 2010 has the feature to identify tape that is not working (backup to tape has failed)? Please [...]

Answer Question   |  April 25, 2013  12:03 PM
Backup tapes, Symantec Backup Exec

Symantec Backup Catalog
How to open the Symantec Backup Catalog for Backup Folder Information.

Answer Question   |  April 3, 2013  11:48 AM
Symantec, Symantec Backup Exec

Hardware requirements for Backup Exec 2010 R3
What is the minimum hardware requirement to run Backup Exec 2010 R3 in Windows Server 2003? 

Answer Question   |  October 31, 2012  4:06 AM
Backup Exec 2010, Storage, Symantec Backup Exec, Windows Server 2003

Symantec backup exec system recovery 7 question
Hi, We backup our servers using backup exec system recovery 7 using a full/incremental recovery points. What I would like to know is how do I restore only the files changed in the incremental recovery point without besr7 also restoring from the base recovery point. The reason being is that I have created a recovery [...]

Answer Question   |  June 28, 2011  10:30 AM
Backup Exec, File system recovery, Recovery Point Objective, Symantec, Symantec Backup Exec, Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery v.6.5, Windows Server 2003

Storage for Enterprise Vault
Hello, Could somebody please suggest a suitable storage system for our Enterprise Vault project. The total storage we are looking is around 100TB. We are using Symantec’s Netbackup as the Backup software. Fibre channel will be the preferred choce. Thanks.  

Answer Question   |  June 10, 2011  2:46 PM
Backup, Enterprise Vault, NetBackup, Symantec, Symantec Backup Exec

Backup Exec 12.5 does not backup All Mailboxes
I am running BackUp exec 12.5 and i am trying to backup exchange server 2007 and although it seems that the procedure is completed succesfully when i try to restore specific mailboxes i realize than not all mailboxes are getting backed up. Any suggestions???

Answer Question   |  February 28, 2011  7:42 AM
Backup Exec, Backup Exec 12.5, Exchange 2007, Symantec Backup Exec, Symantec Backup Exec 12.5

Media Mount Fail on Symantec Backup Exec 12
We have a tape rotation system that uses 10 tapes and so we have two weeks worth of backups. A few months ago, we started getting this media mount failed error for just one tape (Wednesday 2 tape). We tried replacing that tape with a brand new one and still get this error each time [...]

Answer Question   |  November 12, 2010  5:36 PM
Backup and Recovery, SBS 2003, Small Business Server, Small Business Server 2003, Symantec Backup Exec, Symantec Backup Exec 12

Helpdesk Symantec antivirus
1. my senior uninstalled the backup management console in the helpdesk server box, since then: the backup keeps failing and missing to backup. Could this be caused by the untivirus being uninstalled? 2. How do i go about installing the untivirus on the box? 

Answer Question   |  November 11, 2010  10:08 AM
Antivirus, Backup, Help Desk, Symantec, Symantec AntiVirus, Symantec Backup Exec

Production SQL Database has been restored with Old database backup
Dear Expert, I need your Advice, today in morning i run Symantec backup restore on SQL 2008 server where i overwrite the production Database with Old backup. Is there any way i can retreive the old Database until yesterday. i dnt have any backup of New database which i accidentally overwritten.   Please help me

Answer Question   |  September 27, 2010  4:33 PM
Exchange, SQL, SQL 2008, SQL Database, SQL Server 2008, Symantec, Symantec Backup Exec

Help backing up Exchange database after changing backup software to Acronis
via Exch System Mgr,(Exch 2003 on Server 2003) it shows that the database last full backup was done on 6/19/2010. Around this time I switched my backup software from Symantec Backup Exec to Acronis Backup & Recovery 10. It appears that Acronis is not able to backup the DB that same as Symantec. Can I [...]

Answer Question   |  September 16, 2010  2:07 PM
Acronis Recover for Exchange, Backup, Dell PowerEdge 2800, Exchange 2003, Exchange 2003 database, Exchange Backup, NTBackup, Symantec Backup Exec, Windows, Windows Server 2003

Lotus NOtes Transaction logging
How to restore by using transaction logs on Symantec backup

Answer Question   |  September 24, 2009  4:55 AM
Backup & recovery, Lotus Notes, Lotus Notes backup, Lotus Notes Transaction Logging, Symantec Backup Exec, Windows Server 2003

ADAMM error with BackupExec 11d
Good morning, I have just taken over the position of backup operator in my department, so please forgive any seemingly obvious questions. I have received several puzzling errors in the past few days, and hope I can get some answers as to what is causing them. First, this is the setup I am using: We [...]

Answer Question   |  January 20, 2010  2:05 PM
Backup, Backup Exec 11d, Symantec Backup Exec, Symantec Backup Exec 11D

EMC Celerra NX4
Has anyone installed a symantec BE Linux agent on the Celerra? If so can you give me detailed instructions. Thanks

Answer Question   |  August 20, 2009  11:23 AM
Backup Exec for Linux Servers, EMC Celerra NX4, Linux Backup, Symantec Backup Exec

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