Backup Exec 21 Administrator's Guide
- Introducing Backup Exec
- Installation
- Methods for installing the Agent for Windows
- Using a command prompt to install the Agent for Windows on a remote computer
- Using a command script to install the Agent for Windows
- Installing the Remote Administrator
- Installing Backup Exec using the command line (silent mode)
- Updating Backup Exec with Veritas Update
- Backup Exec license contract information
- About upgrading to Backup Exec
- Getting Started
- Backups
- Backing up data
- Restores
- How Backup Exec catalogs work
- Job management and monitoring
- About the Job Monitor
- About the Job History
- Viewing the job log
- Error-handling rules for failed or canceled jobs
- Alerts and notifications
- Enabling active alerts and alert history to display on the Home tab
- Adding a recipient group for alert notifications
- Sending a notification when a job completes
- SNMP traps for Backup Exec alerts
- Disk-based and network-based storage
- Configuring disk storage
- Configuring disk cartridge storage
- Backup sets
- Cloud-based storage devices
- Amazon S3 cloud-based storage
- Google cloud-based storage
- Microsoft Azure cloud-based storage
- Private cloud-based storage
- About S3-Compatible Cloud Storage
- About the Backup Exec™ CloudConnect Optimizer
- Legacy backup-to-disk folders
- Legacy backup-to-disk folders
- Legacy backup-to-disk folders
- Tape storage
- Robotic libraries in Backup Exec
- Creating robotic library partitions
- Managing tapes
- Creating media sets for tapes
- Labeling tape media
- Default media vaults
- Storage device pools
- Storage operations
- Conversion to virtual machines
- Configuration and settings
- Changing network and security options for Backup Exec
- Using Backup Exec with firewalls
- Deleting DBA-initiated job templates
- Backup Exec logon accounts
- Reports
- Creating a custom report
- List of Backup Exec standard reports
- Instant Cloud Recovery
- Preconfigurations to be completed in the Azure portal
- GDPR Guard
- Troubleshooting Backup Exec
- Troubleshooting failed components in the SAN
- Generating a diagnostic file for troubleshooting Backup Exec
- Using Backup Exec in cluster environments
- Configurations for Backup Exec and Microsoft Cluster Servers
- Disaster recovery of a cluster
- Simplified Disaster Recovery
- Setting or changing the alternate location for the disaster recovery information file
- Creating a Simplified Disaster Recovery disk image
- Preparing to recover from a disaster by using Simplified Disaster Recovery
- Recovering a computer with Simplified Disaster Recovery
- Performing manual disaster recovery
- Integration with Veritas™ Information Map
- Integration with Veritas SaaS Backup
- Forever Incremental Backup
- Appendix A. Backup Exec Agent for Windows
- About the Backup Exec Agent Utility for Windows
- Appendix B. Backup Exec Deduplication Feature
- Creating or importing deduplication disk storage
- Selecting storage devices for direct access sharing
- Appendix C. Backup Exec Agent for VMware
- About establishing trust for a vCenter/ESX(i) server
- Backing up VMware virtual machines
- About instant recovery of a VMware virtual machine
- About Recovery Ready for VMware virtual machines
- Appendix D. Backup Exec Agent for Microsoft Hyper-V
- Backing up Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines
- About instant recovery of a Hyper-V virtual machine
- About Recovery Ready for Hyper-V virtual machines
- Appendix E. Backup Exec Agent for Microsoft SQL Server
- Backing up SQL databases and transaction logs
- Restoring SQL databases and transaction logs
- Disaster recovery of a SQL Server
- Appendix F. Backup Exec Agent for Microsoft Exchange Server
- Backing up Exchange data
- Appendix G. Backup Exec Agent for Microsoft SharePoint
- Backing up Microsoft SharePoint data
- Appendix H. Backup Exec Agent for Oracle on Windows or Linux Servers
- Configuring the Oracle Agent on Windows computers and Linux servers
- Configuring an Oracle instance on Windows computers
- Viewing an Oracle instance on Windows computers
- About authentication credentials on the Backup Exec server
- About backing up Oracle databases
- About restoring Oracle resources
- Appendix I. Backup Exec Agent for Enterprise Vault
- About backup methods for Enterprise Vault backup jobs
- Restoring Enterprise Vault
- About the Backup Exec Migrator for Enterprise Vault
- Configuring the Backup Exec Migrator
- About retrieving migrated Enterprise Vault data
- About the Partition Recovery Utility
- Appendix J. Backup Exec Agent for Microsoft Active Directory
- Appendix K. Backup Exec Central Admin Server Feature
- About installing the Central Admin Server feature
- What happens when CAS communication thresholds are reached
- About job delegation in CAS
- How to use Backup Exec server pools in CAS
- How centralized restore works in CAS
- Appendix L. Backup Exec Advanced Disk-based Backup Feature
- Appendix M. Backup Exec NDMP Feature
- About restoring and redirecting restore data for NDMP servers
- Viewing the properties of an NDMP server
- Viewing storage properties for an NDMP server
- Appendix N. Backup Exec Agent for Linux
- About installing the Agent for Linux
- About establishing trust for a remote Linux computer in the Backup Exec list of servers
- Editing configuration options for Linux computers
- About backing up a Linux computer by using the Agent for Linux
- About restoring data to Linux computers
- Editing the default backup job options for Linux computers
- Uninstalling the Agent for Linux
- Appendix O. Backup Exec Remote Media Agent for Linux
- About installing the Remote Media Agent for Linux
- About establishing trust for a Remote Media Agent for Linux computer in the Backup Exec list of servers
- About the Backup Exec operators (beoper) group for the Remote Media Agent for Linux
- About adding a Linux server as a Remote Media Agent for Linux
- Editing properties for the Remote Media Agent for Linux
- Creating a simulated tape library
- Viewing simulated tape libraries properties
- Appendix P. Accessibility and Backup Exec
- About keyboard shortcuts in Backup Exec
- Backup and Restore tab keyboard shortcuts
- Storage tab keyboard shortcuts
About the Agent for Enterprise Vault
The Backup Exec Agent for Enterprise Vault (Enterprise Vault Agent) is installed as part of the Agent for Applications and Databases.
The Enterprise Vault Agent provides data protection for the following Enterprise Vault components:
Sites
Vault Store Groups
Databases
Indexes
Vault partitions
The Enterprise Vault Agent can help provide a disaster recovery solution for the data that is archived with Enterprise Vault. Recovery of the archived data is not dependent on the archive source, such as Exchange Server or a specific file system.
The Enterprise Vault Agent lets you do the following:
Back up and restore Enterprise Vault archives from open or closed vault store partitions.
Back up and restore individual Enterprise Vault vault store groups from an Enterprise Vault site.
Back up and restore Enterprise Vault sites, databases, and index locations.
When you back up Enterprise Vault servers the following Enterprise Vault components can be backed up along with the vault partitions:
Enterprise Vault Directory and Monitoring databases
Enterprise Vault Audit, FSA Reporting, and Fingerprint databases
Enterprise Vault vault store databases
Enterprise Vault indexing files
If you install the Enterprise Vault Compliance and Discovery Accelerator products, the following components can be backed up:
Enterprise Vault Compliance Accelerator and Discovery Accelerator Configuration databases
Enterprise Vault Compliance and Discovery Accelerator Customer databases
Enterprise Vault Discovery Accelerator Custodian database
The Enterprise Vault Agent uses Enterprise Vault Backup mode to back up Enterprise Vault components. By using the Backup mode, the Enterprise Vault Agent can back up Enterprise Vault components without having to suspend Enterprise Vault archiving operations.
For example, when you select a vault store group or site for backup, the individual vault store or indexes are placed in Backup mode. Backup mode lets Enterprise Vault continue archiving operations in other vault store groups or sites. After the backup job successfully completes, the Enterprise Vault Agent takes the Enterprise Vault components out of Backup mode so that those components can continue archival operations.
While Enterprise Vault versions 8.x, 9.x, and 10.x all implement Backup mode, Enterprise Vault 9.x and 10.x offer you more flexibility with your vault store backup jobs. With Enterprise Vault 9.x and 10.x, you can run multiple backup jobs of the same Enterprise Vault 9.x and 10.x vault store simultaneously. With Enterprise Vault 8.x, multiple vault store backup jobs must run one at a time.
For example, you can create multiple backup jobs to back up a vault store. Each backup job includes in its selection list one or more unique partitions of the vault store. Under Enterprise Vault 9.x and 10.x, the partitions are backed up simultaneously when the different backup jobs access them at the same time. Under Enterprise Vault 8.x, the partitions are backed up in both backup jobs; however they are backed up sequentially. The first backup job must finish before the second job starts, or else a backup job failure occurs.
Note:
With all versions of Enterprise Vault, the Enterprise Vault Agent automatically backs up the vault store database whenever an open partition is backed up.
The Enterprise Vault Agent backs up the Compliance Accelerator and Discovery Accelerator application databases while they are online. It does not place the databases in Read-only mode or Backup mode before it backs them up.
The Enterprise Vault Agent runs a physical check on each Enterprise Vault database before it backs them up. The Enterprise Vault Agent also runs a physical check on each database before you restore them.
Note:
The Enterprise Vault Agent uses physical database consistency checks because physical checks consume less system resources than other types of Database Consistency Checking options.
Backing up and restoring Enterprise Vault databases and related components require specific user account credentials for each Enterprise Vault component you protect.
Table: Supported user accounts that are required to back up and restore Enterprise Vault components
Enterprise Vault components | User credentials |
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Enterprise Vault databases and components (vault store, indexes, partitions, vault store database, Directory, Monitoring, Fingerprint, FSA Reporting, and Audit databases) | The following credentials are required:
You can also use any domain user account that meets the following requirements:
To configure Role Based Admin privileges for a Windows Domain Admin account, see your Enterprise Vault documentation. |
Compliance Accelerator and Discovery Accelerator | The following credentials are required:
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When you back up specific Enterprise Vault components, the other Enterprise Vault components are automatically backed up at the same time. Backup Exec includes these components to hasten an Enterprise Vault recovery.
Table: Enterprise Vault databases that are automatically backed up
When you back up this | Backup Exec automatically backs up this | Description |
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Enterprise Vault site | Directory database | Backup Exec automatically backs up the Directory database that is associated with the Enterprise Vault site. |
Open partition | Vault store database | Backup Exec automatically backs up the vault store database that is associated with the open partition. |
Over time the amount of data that Enterprise Vault stores continues to grow. At some point, you may observe that as the data moves through its usage lifecycle, you no longer access it as frequently. You can use the Backup Exec Migrator for Enterprise Vault to automatically migrate the older Enterprise Vault data to the storage devices that Backup Exec manages.