Veritas Backup Exec 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)
- 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
- 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 Veritas 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
- 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
- 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
- Integration with Veritas™ Information Map
- Appendix A. Veritas Backup Exec Agent for Windows
- About the Backup Exec Agent Utility for Windows
- Appendix B. Veritas Backup Exec Deduplication Option
- Creating or importing deduplication disk storage
- Selecting storage devices for direct access sharing
- Appendix C. Veritas Backup Exec Agent for VMware
- Backing up VMware virtual machines
- About instant recovery of a VMware virtual machine
- About Recovery Ready for VMware virtual machines
- Appendix D. Veritas 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. Veritas 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. Veritas Backup Exec Agent for Microsoft Exchange Server
- Backing up Exchange data
- Appendix G. Veritas Backup Exec Agent for Microsoft SharePoint
- Backing up Microsoft SharePoint data
- Appendix H. Veritas 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. Veritas 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. Veritas Backup Exec Agent for Microsoft Active Directory
- Appendix K. Veritas Backup Exec Central Admin Server Option
- 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. Veritas Backup Exec Advanced Disk-based Backup Option
- Appendix M. Veritas Backup Exec NDMP Option
- 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. Veritas 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. Veritas 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
Configuring disk storage
Disk storage is a location on a locally attached internal hard drive, a USB device, a FireWire device, or a network-attached storage device to which you can back up data. You specify how long you want to keep the data that you back up to disk storage when you create a backup job. Backup Exec's data lifecycle management feature automatically deletes expired backup sets and reclaims the disk space. If you want to keep the backup data longer than the period that you specify when you create the backup job, you should create a duplicate backup job. A duplicate backup job can copy the backup data from the original storage device to tape media or to disk cartridge media, which you can then send for long-term or off-site storage. You can also keep the backup sets from automatically expiring by retaining the backup sets. Backup Exec then retains all dependent backup sets as well.
To be eligible for configuration as disk storage, a disk must have at least 1 GB of disk space and cannot be configured as deduplication disk storage. Although you can configure disk storage and deduplication disk storage on the same disk, it is not recommended.
When you create disk storage on a disk that is attached to the network, you must specify the path to an existing share. You should use the server name in the UNC path rather than an IP address.
Note:
Before you create the disk storage on a network share, you must give read and write permissions to the Backup Exec service account. The Backup Exec service account is on the Backup Exec server that you want to access the network share.
When you create disk storage on a local disk, Backup Exec lets you specify any of the following locations:
Volumes with or without drive letters.
You can create only one disk storage on a volume.
Unformatted partitions.
Backup Exec formats and partitions the drive for you, if necessary.
Drives that do not have partitions.
Backup Exec creates a folder named BEControl on the root of the volume. Do not delete or edit the contents of the BEControl folder, and do not copy it to other volumes or drive letters.
In Windows Explorer, the backup files that the disk storage device contains display with a .bkf file extension. Each disk storage device also contains a file named changer.cfg and a file named folder.cfg, which store information about the backup files. Do not delete or edit the changer.cfg or folder.cfg files.
A subfolder with a prefix of IMG in the name may display in a disk storage device. This subfolder appears if the option to enable Granular Recovery Technology (GRT) was selected for backup, or if you select the disk storage device as storage for backup data.
You must use the Configure Storage wizard to create disk storage. In the Configure Storage wizard, Backup Exec provides a list of disks on which you can create disk storage. The disks do not appear in the list in the alphabetical order of the drive letter. Instead, the disk that appears first in the list has the most amount of disk space. You can select any disk that you want, but the disk that Backup Exec recommends for use appears at the top of the list. The disk that you use as the system drive always appears last in the list. Veritas recommends that you do not configure disk storage on the system drive.
Note:
If Windows data deduplication is enabled on the disk storage volume, Backup Exec excludes the backup data in the folder \BEData from deduplication, unless the \BEData folder already exists. Backup Exec must exclude backup data from deduplication for you to use Simplified Disaster Recovery (SDR) to perform a local recovery of the Backup Exec server.
If Windows data deduplication is enabled on the disk storage volume, local disaster recovery using SDR fails. The Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE) that SDR uses cannot read the files that Windows data deduplication processes.
To configure disk storage
- On the Storage tab, in the Configure group, click Configure Storage.
- Do one of the following:
If the Central Admin Server feature is not installed
Click Disk-based storage, and then click Next.
If the Central Admin Server feature is installed
Do the following in the order listed:
Select the Backup Exec server on which you want to configure storage, and then click Next.
Click Disk-based storage, and then click Next.
- Click Disk storage, and then click Next.
- Enter a name and description for the disk storage device, and then click Next.
- Specify if you want to create the disk storage device on a local disk or on a network share, enter the location or path, and then click Next.
- Specify how many write operations to let run at the same time on this disk storage device, and then click Next.
- Review the summary, and then do one of the following:
To change the configuration
Do the following in the order listed:
Click the heading that contains the items that you want to change.
Make any changes, and then click Next until the summary appears.
Click Finish.
To configure the disk storage device
Click Finish.
See How data lifecycle management (DLM) deletes expired backup sets on disk-based storage.
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