Hello,

I am unable to backup Active Directory with GRT enabled after upgrading AD servers to Windows Server 2012 R2. GRT backups of AD worked fine when the servers were at 2008 R2.

Configuration:

- the server being backed up is running Windows Server 2012 R2 with Backup Exec agent 14.0.1798.1364 (2012 SP4 agent)

- the Backup Exec server is Backup Exec 2012 with SP4 installed

The following error occurs when backing up System State on the AD server:

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GRT backup set folder: D:\BEData\IMG000921
The consistency check of the snapshot for the Microsoft Active Directory, Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM) or Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS) database and transaction logs ntds was successful.
V-79-57344-33928 - Access Denied. Cannot backup directory  and its subdirectories.
V-79-10000-13307 - You have backed up a Windows Server 2012 computer. You cannot use the Simplified Disaster Recovery disk to restore Windows Server 2012 computers. However, you can run a manual complete online restore for disaster recovery or a physical to virtual conversion.

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Backed up 27 System State components

1 item was skipped.

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By experimenting with different backup options, I found when just the GRT option is turned off just for the Active Directory backup, the System State backup works fine. So, the problem seems specifically with trying to do a GRT backup of Active Directory system state information on Server 2012 R2.

The advanced option file option is enabled and set to automatic, and all VSS writers on the AD server report a healthy state when checking "vssadmin list writers".

Has anyone else encountered this?

Thanks,

Tim

I am running B. Exec 2010 R3 Rev. 5204 on my new server #2

I have LTO-2 tapes that were created on server #1

I would like to move/duplicate/copy (whatever the terminology is) the data from an archived LTO-2 tape to an LTO-4 tape on server #2.

I would like to have the new LTO-4 tape "MAINTAIN the ARCHIVED DATES" of course....rather than newly assigning todays date to the old data.

Thank you in advance!

Greetings.

I am a network administrator for a small manufacturing company.  Our company is currently being proactive in response to possible legal inquiry (note:  "inquiry".... not "investigation").  Part of our efforts include setting aside the full backup jobs that were conducted just prior to a specific incident by which we expect to be questioned.

We are currently using BUE 2010 v13.0 rev 5204

We have these full backups on LTO tape.

We do not want to restore them back to the live Exchange Server...  there is no need for this.

What we're hoping to do is restore the full backup on the Exchange IS to an arbitrary physical network share; where the Exchange EDB can then be browsed and searched by third party tools without disturbing our live Exchange IS data.

Using the Backup Exec restore function, we know that FILE backups can be redirected out to an arbitrary network share (so that they do not disturb the existing share from which they originally came).  Exchange backups seem to be a different matter altogether.  The "Microsoft Exchange Redirection" menu does not seem to include a function where the Exchange IS data clearly restores out to a network share.  Rather, if I click on "Redirect Exchange Sets", I can only restore to a server (assuming this means an existing Exchange server), or a DAG.  We do not want to restore to either resource.

File Redirection:

Exchange Redirection:

Has anyone ever dealt with something like this?

What might I be able to try?

Does "File Redirection" override "Exchange Redirection"?

I don't want to assume that I can redirect away from our live Exchange IS, when nothing clearly indicates that I can do this.

Any advice would be most helpful.

Thank you.

I produce backup windows 2008R2  ADDS role, Backup only SYSTEM STATE
this virtual server (host hyper-V 2012).Backup Exec 2012 ver.14.0 rev. 1798.
as a result of getting an error

Job Completion Status
Job ended: 14 apr 2014 г. at 16:58:28
Completed status: Failed
Final error: 0x8004230e - 0x8004230e (2147754766)
Final error category: Other Errors

For additional information regarding this error refer to link V-79-32772-8974
 

Errors
Click an error below to locate it in the job log
Backup- alserpost-dc.alserpost.kz - Snapshot Technology: Initialization failure on: "\\dc.contoso.local\System?State". Snapshot technology used: Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS).

V-79-10000-11225 - VSS Snapshot error. The Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) snapshot technology that you selected does not support snap technology for this volume. Select another snapshot technology, and then run the job again.

Guidance please - can libraries be shared between media servers?  Can two Backup Exec 2012 media servers (in either separate domains or forests) share control of one iSCSI network-attached Library system?

Dear,

We are planning to upgrade our Lotus Domino server to version 9, but I don't see that version in the BE2012 SCL (pdf) ?

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?pag...

Could someone confirm wheter it's supported or not? If not, is there any plan to support it and when?

Thanks!

ColoM

Ok,

So I have several servers I will be shutting down permanantly, that I need to do a full recovery backup for.  I'm looking for the simplest method to do that.  I did try to follow the following article:

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?pag...

And it created an ISO to boot from, but when I go and look at the backed up information, it's not clear what I have.  Each drive letter created a backup, (C, D, E, H drives). I have a System State, and two shared folders in my tree of things backed up.

I guess what I am looking for is a single backup of everything to one tape (and the associated ISO if need be), that I can hand the tape and the ISO file/CD off to someone to do a full restore if need be.  Is there an easier way to go about this?

Thanks,

James

Hi.

I have been digging inside of your documentation and also forums but not luck finding the right answer to my problem. 

We use backup exec 2012 on Windows Server 2008 SP1 but when I try to make a backup everything seems to be fine except because the System Disaster Recovery (SDR) file is not created. 

As you can see in the image, the Simplified Disaster Recovery is ON and I guess this is enough to create the SDR file but is not actually creating nothing. 

The log file that I’m attaching is the file log that I got from Backup Exec, I have just changed the server name for security purpose. The rest of the file is basically the same. 

What I am trying to do is restore the entire server into another machine before applying several new features and configurations to my production server. If the server fails after this changes, I need to be able to restore it to a secure point in the past and in the mind time, provide services from a restored server temporally while I restore the real server. 

Thanks. 

Zustand Server 2008 (Physisch)

SQL Express Instanz 2008 DB fast 4 GB gross

Backup Exec 2012 Rx

Oben nenne ich mal Server A

Soll umgelegt werden in einen MS SQL 2008 Cluster. (2xVirtuell Server)

Server B

Problem ist beim ändern des Datenbank Destination Path mit dem Tool (BEUtility), werden die Dienste auf Server A sauber beendet und an dem Punkt wo er laut des logischem Denkens er / es die Datenbank sichern / bzw über das Netzwerk in der neuen Instanz aufbauen sollte, kommt dann die Meldung das, dass Tool die Trennung mit der Datenbank auf Server B nicht durchführen konnte und bricht ab. Wo nichts ist kann auch nichts getrennt werden das ich schon klar aber warum denkt das Programm das der neue Server die Datenbank schon angelegt hat. Verzwickte Kiste. Kann es sein das ein Physisch - Virtueller Umzug / Migration der Express DB in eine Produktive MSSQL DB nicht geht? Oder muss die neue DB auf der selben Physischen Kiste liegen? Solangsam gehen mir die Ideen aus.

Gruss Chris

PS: Bei Fragen zu weiteren Details nur zu.

Last weekend, I ran a full backup of several of my VMware hosted VMs.  Now I want to create a differential backup of one of those VMs, but when I try to do that Backup Exec 2012 (Sp4) wants to create a full backup and then a differential.  Even if I put the full on hold, the differential is scheduled for after it. Is there anyway to make the Backup Exec 2012 recognize the fact that it has already done a full backup of the VM in question and just execute a differential?.    

I am just starting to look inot this for a client.

They want reports both backup and restore sent to someone quarterly that show that things are working.

Is this possible?

Thanks

Mike

I recently upgraded one of our Server 2008 R2 servers to Windows Server 2012 R2. This was a test machine to see how the upgrade process would go and what issues i would have. Backup Exec 2012 seems to be the only issue I'm having. We started with Service pack 3 but as part of the troubleshooting we moved up to Service pack 4. When clicking on the desktop icon to run backup exec i get the following error.

If i right click and run as administrator it will open up fine. Here comes the line that nobody likes to hear "It worked that way before". It works in Server 2008 without running as administrator and it even works in a fresh install of Server 2012 without running as administrator. This isn't a huge issue but we do have a few people that aren't used to doing that and if i can keep it as close to the same as its always been i know it will keep them happy (Plus they are getting used to the new UI in backup exec 2012). I have tried running a repair on backup exec and it still continues to have issues after that. We have backup exec on about 160 servers so i would like to try to keep from uninstalling and reinstalling (Mostly because we just uninstalled 2010 and installed 2012 over the course of a few weeks so i would hate to do it all over again). We login to server with domain admin accounts. The server i upgraded is a Domain controller, DHCP, File Server, Print server and does host IIS Internet printing.

Digging deeper i found using process monitor its failing on one registry key trying to open it.

I gave myself full control to that registry key and tried running it again and it failed to start up with the error "BackupExec has Stopped working". Which in event viewer shows some type of memory dump error.

Not really sure what I can try next as thats why I'm posting that to hopefully get some suggestions on what i may be able to try next.

Hi,

We have BE for SBS 2010 running on a SBS2008 server.

We are having a lot of issues with failed Exchange Backups to Disks.

Backups of the same to LTO never fails.

I am wondering if it is worth upgrading to 2010 R3.

If so

A. is it a free upgrade

B. Is it an inplace upgrade or uninstall reinstall ?

Many thanks for advice.

Hello,

I have run into a problem with my BEX 2012 (W2008 server) B to D to T setup.  I have a backup configured with Full backup Every 1 week on Saturday night to and External Drive (keep for 1 week).  Next stage is Incrementals Every 1 week on Mon - Fri nights (keep fro 5 days) to the same ExDrive.  Next stage is Duplicate to Tape on Last Sunday of every 1 month (backsup most recent full backup).

Under storage settings, Media overwrite protection level is "Partial-protect only allocated media/prompt before overwriting imported media", and Media overwirte options "overwrite scratch media before recyclabe..."

The scenario is that the last week's Saturday night Full backup was still running when I arrived on Monday, and the Sunday night Full Duplicate to Tape was waiting for the Full to finish.  I canceled the Duplicate but the Saturday Full backup was hung so I canceled that.  BTW..while investigating, I noticed that I had put incrementals on hold the week before (another story) and forgot to release the hold, so I made that change.  I tried manually re-running the Full backup and it fails where now the incremental job is listed as supercedded and was not running.  The Duplicate also fails.  Now the External Disk is nearly full.

I waited until this last Saturday hoping that the Full backup would run and reclaim space on the ExDrive as usual, but it didn't so I canceled the job.  The error is "Backup - \\ServerName\D:    Media mount failed.  User canceled a Physical Volume Library Operation. V-79-57344-33861 - The media operation was terminated by the user.  Interesting thing is that D: is the dirve to be backed up and instead of the error showing something about the ExDrive E:

Firsly, I believe I need to free up space on the ExDrive but I am not sure how to safely find and delete the oldest backups so can use some help here to start.

Tnx...

I have 4 external USB3.0 drives attached to my BE2012 server.  I have configured the backup jobs for my 6 servers to these disks.  After running for a couple weeks to get a handle on my storage requirements, I believe my storage capacity is sufficient, but barely.  Rather than replace 3 and 4TB disks with larger ones or a NAS or something, I have decided to create storage pools.  Not revolutionary, I know.

Storage Pool 1 includes Disk A and D

Storage Pool 2 includes Disk B and D

Storage Pool 3 includes Disk C and D

As mentioned, Disk A, B and C are sufficient for the backup jobs to run without issue when not using pools, however 2 of them are up to 90% full at any one time.  What I would like to happen with the pools is BE to continue to backup as normal to Disks A, B and C and then use Disk D as an overflow disk when it warrants due to a full disk.  Basically, Disk D would be empty until a backup "overflows" to it due to Disk A, B or C becoming full.  I have reconfigured my backup jobs to point to the pools instead of the individual disks.  None of my backup job windows overlap.

My question is what order does BE2012 choose to use the disks in the pool?  Will it operate as I desire, always using the first disk in the pool unless the device is busy?  Or some other way based on utilizing all available resources for performance reasons?

Thanks.

--Mark

So I want to duplicate some data from one tape onto another tape.  I went into the server, found the backup date of each item all at once w/ ctrl (C:, D:, H:, System State, etc, This was an SDR backup).  I then right-clicked, and stated to duplicate.  I selected another tape in the system (this is an 11 tape library w/one drive).

Well, the system loaded up the tape into the drive that the data will go to, then asked for the tape that has the existing data.  So I imported the tape that has the data.  The system shows that tape now in the system.  I clicked OK on the import request message.

Now the job just sits in an endless queued state.  It has not removed the final tape and loaded up the tape with the existing data on.  Did I do this wrong?

Thanks,

James

I am using Symantec Backup Exec 2010 R2 for regular backups & recovery for about a years’ time.

My production server configuration as follows,

Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise 64 bit

Server Hardware: Dell Power Edge R710 Intel Xeon E5630

Now I want to full backup restore to a different server & server configure as follows,

Windows Server 2008 Standard 64bit

Server Hardware: DELL PowerEdge C1100 Intel L5630 X2 Quad Core

I download & install Symantec Backup Exec 2010 R3 - trial version (I don’t have the original disks for existing backup software) on my target server Dell C1100.

I tried to restore the above backup into target server and I am getting following error,

“Unable to attach to \\SERVER2\c$.

V-79-57344-33898 – The restore could not be restored ……..Make Sure that the correct version of the Remote Agent is installed and running on the target computer.”

Do I need to install same version “Symantec Backup Exec 2010 R2” software on the target server?

Do I need to activate the Symantec Backup Exec 2010 R3 - trial version with existing 2010 R2 licences ? if so anything happen to my live production server?

Thanks

SanW

I'm working on planning a BE2012 install to replace our aging BE2010 system and I'm having an issue restoring data from a BE2010 backup.

Here's the specifics:

• Backup was created on a LTO library using BE2010
• Backup was done with the VMWare Agent/Option for BE2010
• Backup was created with GRT enabled
• GRT restore of this backup set works fine in BE2010

As of yet, I have not been able to restore this data using BE2012. I've tried:

• restoring the entire VM, which reports the job ran successfully - but restored 0 bytes - e.g. nothing was really restored.
  • this is troubling - at the minimum I figured this would work
• restoring an individual file within the VM (GRT restore) - when setting up this job I get an error stating "Unable to insert the SERVERNAME Restore 000XX. The restore job has no selections" - when it does indeed clearly contain a selection
  • I've tried redirecting the restore to another server (running the BE2012 agent) and the local file system of the media server - this makes no difference

As of right now I only notice this on GRT enabled backups. I was able to successfully restore a VM that does not use any GRT nor BE Agent (successful restore was a NT4 server of all things!)

Are there any solutions for what appears to be a bug in 2012?

I have a server 2003 running our Symantec Endopoint Protection Server and i need to move the server to larger drives for the new version of SEP

what would be a simple solution

backup and BMR?

Hi,

I am trying to solve a remote backup issue and I need some help. We have a fileserver that needs to be backed up on site and have another backup offsite. Our onsite solution is currently covered by Backup Exec 2012 and works fine but sending our current job over WAN is too costly in resources. Therefore, we purchased Enterprise Server Option for the Synthetic backup thinking that we would only need to have an initial full backup then only incrementals thereafter. However, we did not know that the Synthetic full backup happens in memory of the media server then sends the full back over putting us back to square one. My objectives are not to spend more than I have to and have a current full backup offsite using the least amount of network resources as possible.

From what I can tell, I see two solutions:

1) Have the media server offsite on the remote unit pulling over incrementals and doing a full Synthetic backup offsite. Buy another Backup Exec 2012 license for the onsite backups.

2) Buy the deduplication option and have the backups deduplicated offsite (because from what I understand there is optimization in deduplication that will only send over the differential information to the remote storage unit).

I am considering the first option as best because it will be less expensive to buy another BE2012 license than a Deduplication Option license.

Should I go the first, second, or an unmentioned third route?

Thank you for your time.