#SYMANTEC BACKUP EXEC 2014 PRICE UPDATE#
#SYMANTEC BACKUP EXEC 2014 PRICE SOFTWARE#

It is running DBCC CheckDB on different databases and running Backup One of those features is to back up SQL Server Databases.

#SYMANTEC BACKUP EXEC 2014 PRICE SOFTWARE#

They're just reading from a script.Symantec Backup Exec is a backup software that works on many types of platforms in your environment. Oh, can we mention support? Hours long waits to hear 'do the needful' crap from people who have no idea what they're doing. It just seemed to make everything more hidden and more difficult. I still am bewildered by the GUI change in 2012. But its release > many, many bugs > some fixes > bugs that never get fixed > release - repeat.Ĭhrist, what a badly run company and a badly run product. If the BE team took a break from its near annual release schedule and fixed all the outstanding bugs of the current release, it would be a decent product. Memory leak under one condition? I've identified several, not that their support gives two shits about it. Restart client? Man, I have to restart the server if there's a failed backup. Probably time to move away from BE I think.Īlso, you have a lot better luck than me. I have a shadowprotect quote I've been looking at. Don't do it! Trust me.Ĭame into work this morning to find BE locked up and the server nearly locked up as well. Untrusted agents because of certificate issues, services not starting after an update, GUI crashing because you clicked something in Sharepoint backups, i have seen it allīackup Exec 2012 was even worse than Backup Exec 2010, so i doubt that Backup Exec 2012 is any good. Pretty bad when you actually need technical support.īugs, bugs everyhwere. Pretty quick when it comes to helping you renew things or buy things. Support, the thing you pay thousand of Euros for. Permissions: We gave that thing domain admin rights, sharepoint farm admin permissions, exchange management, a couple service permissions and it still constantly complained about permission issues somewhere Yeah uhm so i recovered one file with that, it started a re-replication of the entire DFS-R folder that took a week to complete.

Single Item restore should be done to a filesystem because it never manages to restore the item directly to sharepoint, something about permissions - it god ever permission i could think of, but stillīackup/restore on DFS-R files just blows. If you use things like Access Services, the folder will just be empty.

#SYMANTEC BACKUP EXEC 2014 PRICE UPDATE#

I did that THREE TIMES in 1,5 years.ĮVERY windows update the agent won't start on a couple of servers, randomly, you will have to manually start the agentĮVERY time you switch to Daylight saving time or out of it all jobs will fail onceīackup of sharepoint works like a charm, recovery not so much. Oh yeah, that is also bugged and will take forever since it gets confused with media numbers - you will be busy for a week to micromanage reading ~100 tapes. In practice it took us months to get that working since their 'auto-configuration' script just blows and the KB article is confusingįor whatever reason it sometimes shreds the disk catalogs, requiring you to read all tapes again to be able to restore. Sometimes it forgets to delete older files too and you run out of space.Įxchange backups: yeah uhm, it is supposed to do single item restore. Also it is VERY slow and you better give it root permissions.īackup to Disk: Yeah it kinda works, but it takes a lot longer than backup to tape for no reason.

I have 4 hours or more per week to invest into other things now.īackup Exec sounds good, but only works if you painfully micromanage the shit out of it.īackup of Linux with their Agent: has a memory leak, that will shred your system, better write a script that restarts the service daily. I moved our backup system away from backup exec 2010 to Microsoft DPM. There don't appear to be any exchange specific options in the management console.Īside from Acronis and BackupExec, is there anything else you suggest I look at for Exchange backup? Veeam looked interesting, but we don't control the VM environment that our mail cluster runs in. I have the BackupExec server and management console on AD1, with the Agent for Windows and Applications on both EXCH1 and EXCH2.

I kicked off a backup in BackupExec, but it seems to only backup the boxes, without being aware of the Info Store, and doesn't let me restore anything than an entire machine. I got Acronis up and going, and that can backup just the exchange info store for the DAG, and restore down to the individual mail item level. I'm evaluating a few different products in a lab environment to see what's best for us. Has anyone here got experience setting up BackupExec on an Exchange 2013 deploy with a DAG cluster? Have you been able to get it to restore individual mailboxes/mail items to a particular point in time? (the marketing suggests yes, but I can't figure out the config and Google hasn't been helpful)

Symantec backup exec 2014 price