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newbie to Symantec Backup Exec 12.5
hello All
I was asked to get over teh offfice backup done with Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 on a Windows Server 2003 STD Server share.
the Win 2003 Servers C: have 2 Public Folders which has to backed up on a daily incremental and a end of the week Full Backup.
Where can i get the relevant guide of any material or any video will be much appreciated.
tks
Danny,
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Permalink Reply by Constantin Visan on -
Danny,
try to take a look on this :
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/308400.htm
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/308510.htm
The problme what I see is that 12.5 are a old version and Symantec push now 2010 Version. Pherhaps is better to move also to 2010.
Cheers
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Permalink Reply by Graycat on -
you think 12.5 is old? we're still running 10d across all sites here :o) lol
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Permalink Reply by Graycat on
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I've not tried it with 12.5 but I'm sure it'll be pretty easy. The general process will be like this:
1. install Backup Exec on a server (not the Exchange server but one with the tape drive attached if you're doing backup to tape).
2. deploy the Remote Backup agent and the Exchange agent along with any others you have (usually open file agent is a good idea)
3. create a selection set for the public folders
4. create two backup jobs using that selection set. make one an incremental to run Monday to Thursday. Create another job using the selection set to run as a full backup on each Friday.
Job done.
Just a few points from what you've said though.
Firstly you say your public folders are on the C:\ drive of the Exchange server. I can't stress enough how this is back practice and they should be on a separate partition. You do not want an Exchange store to suddenly run out of disk space and not be able to complete a write correctly!
With regards to the daily updates, I would suggest that differential backups would be a better choice over incremental. A restore of an incremental backup requires all the previous incremental backups be restored up to the last full backup. Thus multiplying the number of steps that have to be completed as well as the simple amount of time it takes to run through all those stores.
You can probably download the user manuals from the support side of the Symantec website if you really need them.
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