Hi Tom 

Have you investigated DPM ?

Sent on the run!

On 02 Apr 2013, at 11:33, Tom Miller <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks for the comments and it's good to know it's not just my environment at 
> least.  The backups never fail on my small databases and public folders, just 
> the large databases.  When I check on the backups, I see the backup rate 
> getting slower as time goes by and I suppose it times out.  I use backup to 
> disk, copy to tape method.
>  
> Anyone have any suggestions for a product that works? 
>  
> Tom
> 
> 
> On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 10:21 PM, Steve Ens <[email protected]> wrote:
>> My suggestion is to start tweeting to the backup exec account....that 
>> usually wakes up their tier two or three support.
>> 
>> Sent from my FriPad
>> 
>> On 2013-04-01, at 9:04 PM, "Chyka, Robert" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> I am using the same setup with you and encountering the same issues.  I get 
>>> a successful, clean, no error backup about once every 6 backups or so.  I 
>>> am very frustrated also.  I may consider changing software packages if this 
>>> doesn’t get fixed soon.  I really don’t think this is a Microsoft issue as 
>>> my exchange environment is very stable.
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
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>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> From: Tom Miller [mailto:[email protected]] 
>>> Sent: Monday, April 01, 2013 9:30 PM
>>> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
>>> Subject: Backup Exec 2013 and Exchange 2013 issues - Symantec's response
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> I've been having issues with Backup Exec backing up my Exchange 2010 SP3 
>>> environment.  I've had the same issues since we migrated to Exchange 2010 
>>> and that was on SP2.
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> Backup Exec 2012 (and Backup Exec 2010 before I upgraded) always failed on 
>>> Exchange DAGs here.  This is a VMware environment.  Exchange is on Windows 
>>> 2008 R2 servers.  My environment is simple:  two CAS servers, two DAG 
>>> servers.
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> I opened a support request with Symantec about the issue.  The response I 
>>> received is: 
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>>  I would like to inform you that exchange 2010 SP3 is not yet supported by 
>>> the latest version of BE at the moment.
>>>  
>>> By not supported I mean that BE has not been tested with Exchange 2010 SP3 
>>> officialy. Support for the same may be expected in upcoming releases.
>>>  
>>> About the VSS writers, BE calls them during the backup to take a snapshot 
>>> of the databases and logs. But due to some reason the writers fail again 
>>> and again and cause the backup job to fail inturn.
>>>  
>>> In this case, I would suggest you to contact Microsoft Support to fix the 
>>> VSS writer issue. Once fixed, you can continue taking backups successfully. 
>>> Just make sure that the Advanced Open File Option is not selected in the 
>>> backup as it is not recommended for exchange.
>>> 
>>> Well...that sucks.  I didn't know about the advanced open file. so I'll 
>>> disable that and give it another try.  So, what are you folks using for 
>>> backup?  The vss writers are always stable, at least when I check. 
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> Tom
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>>  
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