I am doing that exact action every week. To set this up, make sure the UNC path you are sending the backup files to is active and you have appropriate permissions...
[Veritas 9.x] 1. Click on "Devices" 2. In the left window pane, locate the "Backup-to-Disk" tree node under your servers name. 3. Right-click on "Backup-to-Disk" and choose "New Backup Folder". 4. Give it a proper name and, again, make sure that your path is valid. If in doubt, use the "..." button to browse for your share. Click "OK" when done. As long as the process that runs your BackupExec service has write access to the UNC, you should be good. Even though the documentation says you have to backup to a remote media server, I send a hot copy of one of my jobs to a 500Gig Firewire drive hanging off of a WindowsXP Pro Workstation. I don't actually use this as a true backup device, only for doing quick restores during the day. I seem to be fishing files off of tapes a lot more often than I would like to, so it is very handy to have a hotcopy on tap at all times. Good luck, Eric -----Original Message----- From: Dan Bartley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 1:42 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: BackupExec backing up Exchange to disk We did that, but it would keep saying the path was invalid unless it was local. Perhaps we missed something then. Best Regards, Dan Bartley -----Original Message----- From: Derek Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 14:39 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: BackupExec backing up Exchange to disk I'm currently backing up all of my databases, including Exchange, to NAS devices located on and off site, with BE 9.1. You have to set up backup "devices," which can be UNC paths to remote folders. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Bartley Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 12:34 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: BackupExec backing up Exchange to disk With version 9.1 you can only back up to a local disk. It does not recognize UNC or mapped drives. So, you would have to install a local copy of the media server. Best Regards, Dan Bartley -----Original Message----- From: Fyodorov, Andrey FTL [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 14:29 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: BackupExec backing up Exchange to disk Thanks! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shields, Anthony Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 2:30 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: BackupExec backing up Exchange to disk If veritas will allow remote media servers (which I don't use, but think it can), then yes - it is smart enough to know where to 'send' the data if you're sending to the local disk. You need to create a media server (I believe) and a Backup-to-disk folder on the exchange box. The backup-to-disk folder only on the exchange box WOULD send I believe all the data to central and then to the folder. A media server on the box, would maintain the data (like central/but local) and send it to the folder. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fyodorov, Andrey FTL Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 2:11 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: BackupExec backing up Exchange to disk So is your data being pulled over the network from the Exchange server to the array? What we are trying to achieve is high speed of backups and restores, so we have a very large RAID volume on the Exchange server itself just for the backups. Now if I were to use a central BackupExec server to perform these backups to disk, I wouldn't want to pull the data over the network to the BackupExec server and then push it back to the Exchange server to be written onto the dedicated backup RAID volume. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shields, Anthony Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 1:40 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: BackupExec backing up Exchange to disk You want to backup your Exchange server on the same machine? Yes Veritas can backup to disk. We have a 2TB array just for that purpose. It hangs off the central Veritas server and backs up all the servers including Exchange on to the array. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fyodorov, Andrey FTL Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 12:26 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: BackupExec backing up Exchange to disk I believe that BackupExec can now backup to disk instead of to tape. Does anyone know whether I would then need to have a full installation of BackupExec on each Exchange server to perform a "to disk" backup of information stores onto a disk that's local to the Exchange server? Or can I just have the central installation of BackupExec and the Exchange agent will be smart enough to backup data onto a disk that's local to the exchange server? 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