no, more, how long from when you had never used backup exec until you
felt very comfortable with it?
Eric Fretz wrote:
Get to the point where BackupExec only need tape changes? Only a few days.
We were a BackupExec 8.x shop before hand, but I chose to do a complete
remove and install when going to v9.1. I'm sure upgrading would have been
just as good, but I wanted to know EXACTLY what was getting backed up, what
accounts were being used, etc.... Building the new backup jobs accomplished
that.
The VS160 drives seem to run for about three months before they start going
offline for no reason. I've tried using Veritas drivers, microsoft drivers
and even Quantum supplied OEM drivers. Nothing changes. The only thing
that temporarily fixed the problem is bouncing the power on the tape drive.
Since the tape drives are inside of servers, resetting the drives can be a
perilous adventure. Dell swears there is nothing wrong with the Quantum
VS160 drive. I have a stack of RMA labels that argue otherwise.
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris H [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 12:36 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: Re: Backup software
How long did it take you to get to that point?
Eric Fretz wrote:
About the only time I spend working on my Veritas Backup Exec 9.1 boxes
is when I forget to change tapes, or when the VS160 drives decide to
die. I have replaced (4) VS160 drives in 6 months. Thank God for
Dell's 4-hour parts support....
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris H [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 10:23 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: Re: Backup software
Yes, the logging is quite lame . . . but for a lean shop like mine the
person-hours that someone would have to dedicate to being an 'expert' at
CA or Veritas, etc. the gains far outweigh the shortcomings.
Fyodorov, Andrey FTL wrote:
My only complaint about NTBackup is the logging. I think it only keeps
last 10 logs in the Documents and Settings subdirectory which belongs
to the account that NTBackup runs as.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Presley, Steven
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 10:48 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: Re: Backup software
I recently worked in an environment where we kept 3 fulls on disk at
all time using NTbackup like this (and used file backup software to put
the backup files to tape). Each full was kept in its own folder: Good
(1 day old), Bad (2 days old), Ugly (3 days old). We just scripted it
so that after NTbackup did its thing we rotate the backups out and what
was in Ugly goes to tape.
If you can afford to keep your Exchange fulls on disk and rotate them
like this, it speeds up recovery time quite a bit (being on gigabit
ethernet helps as well).
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 10:37:47 -0500, Fyodorov, Andrey FTL
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Oh, then that changes everything.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim
Vander Kooi
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 10:24 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: Backup software
Actually, if the historical data needed for the restore is still on
disk it significantly decreases your restore time, as no tape is
needed. I backup to disk on our SAN here, saving to separate daily
files and only overwriting those files weekly. The disk backups are
still written to tape daily, but doing it this way decreases your
restore times in MOST instances, and lengthens your backup window
since you can have your mail store being backed up to disk at the
same time as other data is written to tape.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Fyodorov, Andrey FTL
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 8:56 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: Backup software
The only thing is it doubles your restore time and effort.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Chris H
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 6:09 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: Re: Backup software
for Exchange NTBackup! Works like a charm . . .we use that for all
Exchange servers and backup to a file and then pluck it off of a
drive with our "Enterprise" backup software to tape.
Tony Nguyen wrote:
I need some recommendations on Backup software. We are still running
Arcserve 2000 for backup. I have been having some problem with the
backup and try to call for support but they wanted $95 for then just
to
tell me to upgrade. I am thinking about going with Backup Exec. Is
this
one of the best out there?
Thank
Tony
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