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Backup Exec 20.2 Administrator's Guide

Last Published: 2018-08-13

Product(s): Backup Exec (20.2)

Introducing Backup Exec
1. About Backup Exec
2. How Backup Exec works
Installation
1. About the Backup Exec installation process and licensing options
2. Backup Exec preinstallation checklist
3. Running the Environment Check before installing or upgrading Backup Exec
4. Microsoft SQL Server Express Edition components installed with Backup Exec
5. System requirements for Backup Exec
6. Installing Backup Exec by using the Installation Wizard
7. Installing additional agents and features to the local Backup Exec server
8. Push-installing Backup Exec to remote computers
9. Methods for installing the Agent for Windows
  1. Push-installing the Agent for Windows to remote computers
  2. Installing updates to the Agent for Windows on remote computers
  3. Installing the Agent for Windows in an Active Directory network
  4. Using a command prompt to install the Agent for Windows on a remote computer
    1. Using a command prompt to uninstall the Agent for Windows from a remote computer
  5. Using a command script to install the Agent for Windows
    1. Using a command script to uninstall the Agent for Windows
10. Installing the Remote Administrator
  1. Installing the Remote Administrator using the command line
  2. Running the Remote Administrator
11. Installing Backup Exec using the command line (silent mode)
  1. Command line switches for silent mode installation of Backup Exec
  2. Creating and using installation parameter files
12. About the installation log
13. Viewing the Installation Summary Report
14. Repairing Backup Exec
15. Updating Backup Exec with Veritas Update
16. Viewing installed updates
17. Uninstalling Backup Exec updates
18. Viewing license information
19. Backup Exec license contract information
  1. Updating expired license contracts
  2. Managing license contract customer numbers
20. About upgrading to Backup Exec
  1. Upgrade checklist for Backup Exec
  2. Using the Migration Report to determine how existing jobs changed after an upgrade from a previous version of Backup Exec
21. Post-installation tasks
22. Uninstalling Backup Exec
23. Uninstalling Backup Exec using the command line
24. Uninstalling Backup Exec features from the local Backup Exec server
Getting Started
1. About the Backup Exec Administration Console
2. Displaying the version information for Backup Exec
3. Locking and unlocking the Backup Exec Console
4. How to sort, filter, and copy information on the Backup Exec Administration Console
5. Customizing views on the Backup Exec Administration Console
6. Configuring the Home tab
7. Configuring the RSS Reader
8. Creating a disaster preparation plan (DPP)
9. Getting started with backups
Backups
1. How to prepare for your first backup with Backup Exec
2. Improving backup performance in Backup Exec
3. Troubleshooting backup performance
4. Required user rights for backup jobs
5. About the list of servers on the Backup and Restore tab
6. Adding servers that you want to back up to the list of servers on the Backup and Restore tab
7. Removing servers from the list of servers on the Backup and Restore tab
8. Creating a server group
9. Hiding or viewing server groups on the Backup and Restore tab
10. Adding servers to a server group
11. Removing servers from a server group
12. Editing a server group
13. Moving servers to the Retired Servers server group
14. Moving retired servers back to the All Servers server group
15. Removing server groups from Backup Exec
16. Backing up data
  1. How Backup Exec backs up and restores volumes that are enabled for deduplication in Windows
  2. How Backup Exec backs up and restores Microsoft Virtual Hard Disk (vhd) files
17. About selecting data to back up
18. Changing the order in which backup sources are backed up
19. Excluding files from backups
20. Including specific files with a backup job's backup selections
21. About backing up critical system components
22. Backup Exec Shadow Copy Components file system
23. Backup methods in Backup Exec
24. Configuring backup methods for backup jobs
25. How Backup Exec determines if a file has been backed up
26. Configuring Backup Exec to automatically delete files after a backup
27. Configuring network options for backup jobs
28. Running the next scheduled backup job before its scheduled time
29. Editing backup definitions
30. Testing credentials for backup sources
31. Replacing the credentials for a backup source
32. Creating new credentials for a backup source
33. Deleting retired or unused backup sources from the Credentials pane
34. How job scheduling works in Backup Exec
35. Including a specific date in the schedule for a backup job
36. Preventing backup jobs from running on a specific date
37. Viewing all scheduled backup jobs on a calendar
38. Adding a stage to a backup definition
39. Editing a stage
40. Duplicating backup sets or a job history manually
41. Running a test run job manually
42. Verifying backed up data manually
43. Copying data from a virtual tape library to a physical tape device using DirectCopy to tape
Restores
1. Methods for restoring data in Backup Exec
2. Searching for data to restore
3. Restoring data from a server, a backup set, a backup job, or a storage device
4. Restoring file system data
5. Performing a complete online restore of a Microsoft Windows computer
6. Restoring System State
7. Installing a new Windows Server domain controller into an existing domain by using a redirected restore
8. Restoring Backup Exec Shadow Copy Components
9. Restoring utility partitions or Unified Extensible Firmware Interface system partitions
10. About restoring encrypted data
11. About restoring NetWare SMS volume backups to non-SMS volumes with Backup Exec
12. Canceling a restore job
13. How Backup Exec catalogs work
  1. Configuring default options for catalogs
  2. Moving the Backup Exec catalogs to a new directory
14. Cataloging backup sets
Job management and monitoring
1. How to monitor and manage jobs in Backup Exec
2. About the Job Monitor
3. About the Job History
4. Viewing the job log
5. Error-handling rules for failed or canceled jobs
6. List of job statuses in Backup Exec
7. Setting job status and recovery options
Alerts and notifications
1. Alerts and notifications in Backup Exec
2. Where to find alerts in Backup Exec
3. Enabling active alerts and alert history to display on the Home tab
  1. Active alerts properties
4. Viewing the alert history for a server or a storage device
5. Deleting an alert from alert history
6. Copying alert text to a document or email
7. Filtering alerts
8. Viewing the job log from an alert
9. Responding to active alerts
10. Clearing all informational alerts manually
11. Setting up notification for alerts
12. Configuring email or text message notification for alerts
13. Adding recipients for notification
14. Adding a recipient group for alert notifications
  1. Removing a recipient from a group
15. Disabling email or text message alert notification for a recipient
16. Editing recipient notification properties
17. Deleting recipients
18. Configuring alert categories
19. Assigning recipients to receive notifications for specific alert categories
20. Sending a notification when a job completes
  1. Notification options for jobs
21. Disabling notifications for a specific alert category
22. Configuring default alert settings
23. Enabling or disabling pop-up alerts
24. SNMP traps for Backup Exec alerts
  1. Installing and configuring the SNMP system service
  2. Installing the Windows Management Instrumentation performance counter provider
  3. Installing the Windows Management Instrumentation provider for SNMP
  4. Uninstalling the Windows Management Instrumentation performance counter provider
  5. Uninstalling the Windows Management Instrumentation provider for SNMP
Disk-based and network-based storage
1. Features and types of disk-based storage and network-based storage
2. Storage trending statuses for disk storage and virtual disks
3. Setting low disk space thresholds on disk-based storage
4. Configuring disk storage
  1. Changing the location of a disk storage device
  2. Editing disk storage properties
5. How to restore data from a reattached or reinserted disk-based storage device
6. Configuring disk cartridge storage
  1. Editing disk cartridge properties
  2. Editing disk cartridge media properties
7. How data lifecycle management (DLM) deletes expired backup sets on disk-based storage
8. Backup sets
Cloud-based storage devices
1. About cloud-based storage devices
2. Amazon S3 cloud-based storage
  1. Requirements for configuring an Amazon S3 cloud-based storage device
  2. Configuring storage for Amazon cloud storage
3. Google cloud-based storage
  1. Requirements for configuring a Google cloud-based storage device
  2. Configuring storage for Google cloud storage
4. Microsoft Azure cloud-based storage
  1. Requirements for configuring a Microsoft Azure cloud-based storage device
  2. Configuring storage for Microsoft Azure cloud storage
5. Private cloud-based storage
6. About S3-Compatible Cloud Storage
  1. Configuring S3-Compatible Cloud Storage with Backup Exec
7. Editing the properties of a cloud-based storage device
8. Best practices for using cloud-based storage
9. Changing default cloud storage settings
10. About the Backup Exec™ CloudConnect Optimizer
  1. Configuring the Backup Exec™ CloudConnect Optimizer
    1. Editing the CloudConnect Optimizer job
    2. Deleting the CloudConnect Optimizer job
Legacy backup-to-disk folders
1. Legacy backup-to-disk folders
Tape storage
1. Support for tape drives and robotic libraries
2. Adding or replacing devices with the Hot-swappable Device Wizard
3. Installing tape device drivers
4. Editing tape drive properties
5. Viewing tape drive statistics
6. Robotic libraries in Backup Exec
7. Creating robotic library partitions
8. Managing tapes
9. Labeling tape media
10. How WORM media is used in Backup Exec
11. Default media vaults
12. Retiring damaged tape media
13. Deleting tape media
14. Erasing tape or disk cartridge media
15. About cataloging tape or disk cartridge media that contains encrypted backup sets
16. Associating tape media with a media set
17. Editing tape media properties
18. Tape media rotation strategies
Storage device pools
1. Creating storage device pools
2. Specifying a default selection method for a device in a storage device pool
3. Viewing jobs, job histories, and active alerts for a storage device pool
4. Adding or removing devices in a storage device pool
Storage operations
1. About storage operation jobs
2. Storage tab overview in Backup Exec
3. Using the Configure Storage wizard
4. Viewing details for multiple storage devices
5. Sending a notification when a scheduled storage operation job completes
6. Scheduling a storage operation job
7. Editing global settings for storage
8. Sharing storage devices
9. Deleting a storage device
10. Changing the state of a storage device to online
11. Renaming a storage device
12. Viewing jobs, job histories, backup sets, and active alerts for storage devices
13. Cataloging a storage device
14. Scanning a storage device
15. Inventorying a storage device
16. Inventorying and cataloging a storage device
17. Pausing and unpausing a storage device
18. Disabling and enabling a storage device
19. Initializing a robotic library
20. Formatting a tape as a WORM tape
21. Retensioning a tape
22. Formatting a tape in a tape drive
23. Ejecting media from a disk cartridge or tape drive
24. Cleaning a robotic library drive
25. Importing media to Backup Exec
26. Exporting media and expired media
27. Locking and unlocking the robotic library's front portal
28. Backup Exec server and storage device states
Conversion to virtual machines
1. How conversion of physical computers to virtual machines works in Backup Exec
2. Requirements for conversion to virtual machine jobs
3. Converting to a virtual machine simultaneously with a backup job
4. Converting to a virtual machine after a backup job
5. Adding a conversion to virtual machine stage to a backup job
6. Converting to a virtual machine from a point in time
7. Creating a one-time conversion to a virtual machine
8. Setting default options for conversion to virtual machine jobs
Configuration and settings
1. Changing default backup job settings
2. Configuring schedules for backup jobs
3. Configuring storage options for backup jobs
4. Configuring automatic test run jobs for backup jobs
5. Configuring automatic verify operations for backup jobs
6. Configuring Instant GRT and full catalog options to improve backup performance for GRT-enabled jobs
7. Configuring Advanced Open File options for backup jobs
8. Configuring checkpoint restart
9. Configuring pre/post commands for backup jobs
10. Configuring file and folder options for backup jobs
11. Setting default schedule options for rule-based jobs and run now jobs
12. Excluding dates from the backup schedule for all backups
13. Removing dates from the list of excluded dates
14. Exporting a list of dates that are excluded from all backups to another server
15. Changing the default preferences
16. Configuring the default setting for backing up multiple servers or applications
17. Configuring database maintenance and security
18. Exporting the Backup Exec Database encryption key
19. Refreshing Backup Exec Database encryption keys
20. Configuring encryption for the connection to the Backup Exec Database
21. Scheduling Backup Exec to check logon accounts
22. Configuring Backup Exec to discover data to back up
23. Adding discovered servers to the list of servers in Backup Exec
24. Backup networks
25. Changing network and security options for Backup Exec
26. Using Backup Exec with firewalls
  1. Backup Exec ports
  2. Backup Exec listening ports
  3. About enabling a SQL instance behind a firewall
27. Using encryption with Backup Exec
28. Encryption key management
29. Creating encryption keys
30. Replacing an encryption key
31. Deleting encryption keys
32. Granular Recovery Technology
33. Setting default Granular Recovery Technology (GRT) options
34. DBA-initiated job templates
35. Creating DBA-initiated job templates
36. Editing DBA-inititated job templates
37. Deleting DBA-initiated job templates
  1. Storage options for DBA-initiated jobs
  2. General options for DBA-initiated jobs
  3. Network options for DBA-initiated jobs
  4. Duplicate job settings for DBA-initiated jobs
38. Configuring settings for Veritas™ Information Map
39. Backup Exec logon accounts
  1. Creating a Backup Exec logon account
  2. Editing a Backup Exec logon account
  3. Changing the password for a Backup Exec logon account
  4. Replacing a Backup Exec logon account
  5. Deleting a Backup Exec logon account
  6. Changing your default Backup Exec logon account
  7. Creating a new Backup Exec System Logon Account
  8. Copying logon account information to another Backup Exec server
  9. Testing logon accounts
40. Starting and stopping Backup Exec services
41. Changing the credentials for a service account
42. Changing startup options for Backup Exec services
43. Configuring audit logs
44. Viewing the audit log
45. Removing entries from the audit log
46. Saving an audit log to a text file
47. Copying configuration settings to another Backup Exec server
48. Viewing server properties
49. Configuring default backup settings
Reports
1. Reports in Backup Exec
2. Running a report now
3. Scheduling a report
4. Creating a custom report
5. Saving a report
6. Printing a report from the Backup Exec Report Viewer
7. Viewing completed reports
8. Editing a report
9. Re-running a completed report
10. Deleting a report
11. Setting defaults for standard and custom reports
12. Viewing report properties
13. List of Backup Exec standard reports
Instant Cloud Recovery
1. About Instant Cloud Recovery
2. Instant Cloud Recovery tab overview in Backup Exec
3. Requirements to configure Instant cloud recovery in Backup Exec
4. Preconfigurations to be completed in the Azure portal
  1. Prepare VMware or Hyper-V infrastructure
5. How to configure Azure resources
6. How to view error details
7. How to view configuration details
8. How to view virtual machine details
9. How to manually refresh the view of virtual machines
10. How to enable replication for virtual machines
11. How to manage replication for virtual machines
12. How to manage failover for a virtual machine
13. How to change the Subscription or Recovery Services Vault
14. How to prepare a new infrastructure
15. How to remove a configured Azure resource from Backup Exec
16. How to renew the Backup Exec certificate
Troubleshooting Backup Exec
1. Troubleshooting hardware-related issues in Backup Exec
2. Troubleshooting robotic libraries and tape drives
3. How to get more information about alerts and error messages
4. Troubleshooting backup issues in Backup Exec
5. Troubleshooting failed components in the SAN
6. Troubleshooting installation issues in Backup Exec
7. Troubleshooting Instant Cloud Recovery issues in Backup Exec
8. How to improve Backup Exec's performance
9. Accessing Veritas Online
10. Searching the Veritas Knowledge Base
11. Contacting Backup Exec Technical Support
12. Using Remote Assistance
13. Managing your Backup Exec support cases
14. About Backup Exec diagnostic tools
15. Running the Veritas QuickAssist Help Tool
16. Generating a diagnostic file for troubleshooting Backup Exec
  1. Command line switches for a diagnostic file
17. Running the begather utility to troubleshoot Backup Exec components on Linux servers
18. Using the Backup Exec Debug Monitor for troubleshooting
19. About the Backup Exec debug tool
Using Backup Exec in cluster environments
1. About Backup Exec and clusters
2. Requirements for clustering Backup Exec in a Microsoft Cluster Server environment
3. How Backup Exec works in a Microsoft Cluster Server environment
4. Requirements for installing Backup Exec on a Microsoft Cluster Server
5. Installing Backup Exec on a Microsoft Cluster Server
6. Upgrading Backup Exec on a Microsoft cluster
7. Installing additional Backup Exec features on a Microsoft cluster
8. Uninstalling Backup Exec from a Microsoft cluster
9. Creating storage device pools for Microsoft Cluster Servers
10. Specifying a different failover node
11. Designating a new central administration server in a Microsoft Cluster Server
12. Configurations for Backup Exec and Microsoft Cluster Servers
  1. Two-node cluster with locally attached storage devices
  2. Two-node cluster with tape devices on a shared SCSI bus
  3. Configuring a shared SCSI bus for tape devices
  4. Multi-node clusters on a fibre channel SAN with the Central Admin Server feature
13. Using the Central Admin Server feature with Microsoft clusters and a storage area network
14. About backing up Microsoft Cluster Servers
15. About restoring data to a Microsoft cluster
16. Disaster recovery of a cluster
  1. Using Simplified Disaster Recovery to prepare for disaster recovery of a cluster
  2. Recovering nodes on the cluster using Simplified Disaster Recovery
  3. Recovering Backup Exec on a Microsoft cluster using Simplified Disaster Recovery
  4. Recovering the entire cluster using a manual disaster recovery procedure
17. Restoring the Microsoft Cluster Server data files
18. Recovering Backup Exec in a Microsoft cluster
19. Manually joining two cluster disk groups and resynchronizing volumes
20. Troubleshooting clusters
Simplified Disaster Recovery
1. About Simplified Disaster Recovery
2. Requirements for using Simplified Disaster Recovery
3. Preparing computers for use with Simplified Disaster Recovery
4. How to ensure that backups are enabled for Simplified Disaster Recovery
5. How Simplified Disaster Recovery uses disaster recovery information files
6. Setting or changing the alternate location for the disaster recovery information file
  1. Changing the default path for the disaster recovery information files
  2. Disaster recovery information file data paths
7. Creating a Simplified Disaster Recovery disk image
  1. Contents of the Simplified Disaster Recovery disk image
  2. User scenarios when a user starts the Create Recovery Disk Wizard
8. Preparing to recover from a disaster by using Simplified Disaster Recovery
  1. Hardware replacement during disaster recovery
  2. Prepare to recover IBM computers with Simplified Disaster Recovery
9. Recovering a computer with Simplified Disaster Recovery
  1. Recovery notes for using Simplified Disaster Recovery with storage pools and storage spaces
  2. Recovery notes for using Simplified Disaster Recovery with Exchange, SQL, SharePoint, CAS, Hyper-V hosts, and the Deduplication feature
10. Advanced Disk Configuration on the Recover This Computer Wizard
11. Performing manual disaster recovery
  1. Performing manual disaster recovery of a local Backup Exec server on a Windows computer
  2. Performing manual disaster recovery of a remote Backup Exec server or remote agent on a Windows computer
Integration with Veritas™ Information Map
1. About Veritas™ Information Map
2. How Backup Exec works with Veritas™ Information Map
3. Requirements for integration with Veritas™ Information Map
4. How Backup Exec integrates with Veritas™ Information Map
5. Supported data sources for integration with Veritas™ Information Map
6. Best practices for integration with Veritas™ Information Map
7. Troubleshooting tips for integration with Veritas™ Information Map
8. Limitation for integration with Veritas™ Information Map
Appendix A. Backup Exec Agent for Windows
1. About the Agent for Windows
2. Requirements for the Agent for Windows
3. Stopping and starting the Agent for Windows
4. Establishing a trust between the Backup Exec server and a remote computer
5. About the Backup Exec Agent Utility for Windows
6. Using the Backup Exec Agent Utility Command Line Applet
7. Backup Exec Agent Utility Command Line Applet switches
Appendix B. Backup Exec Deduplication Feature
1. About the Deduplication feature
2. Deduplication methods for Backup Exec agents
3. Requirements for the Deduplication feature
4. Installing the Deduplication feature
5. Converting an older version of Deduplication Storage to a newer version
6. Configuring an OpenStorage device
7. Editing the properties of an OpenStorage device
8. Specifying a Backup Exec server that has proximity to a shared OpenStorage device
9. Creating or importing deduplication disk storage
  1. Editing the properties of a deduplication disk storage device
  2. Changing the password for the logon account for deduplication disk storage
10. Selecting storage devices for direct access sharing
  1. Editing server properties for direct access
11. Changing the location of a deduplication disk storage device
12. Sharing a deduplication device between multiple Backup Exec servers
13. How to use client-side deduplication
14. How to set up backup jobs for deduplication
15. Using optimized duplication to copy deduplicated data between OpenStorage devices or deduplication disk storage devices
16. Copying deduplicated data to tapes
17. Using deduplication with encryption
18. Restoring a deduplication disk storage device or deduplicated data
19. Disaster recovery of deduplication disk storage devices
20. Disaster recovery of OpenStorage devices
Appendix C. Backup Exec Agent for VMware
1. About the Agent for VMware
2. Requirements for using the Agent for VMware
3. Using the Agent for VMware with Windows Server 2016
4. About installing the Agent for VMware
5. Adding VMware vCenter Servers and ESX/ESXi hosts to the list of servers on the Backup and Restore tab
6. Viewing details about VMware resources
7. Installing the Agent for Windows on VMware virtual machines
8. Push-installing the Agent for Windows to VMware virtual machines
9. About establishing trust for a vCenter/ESX(i) server
  1. Establishing trust for a vCenter/ESX(i) server
10. Recommendations for when to use virtual-based backup and agent-based backup
11. Backing up VMware virtual machines
12. Restoring VMware virtual machines and vmdk files
13. About instant recovery of a VMware virtual machine
14. Troubleshooting the Agent for VMware
15. About Recovery Ready for VMware virtual machines
Appendix D. Backup Exec Agent for Microsoft Hyper-V
1. About the Agent for Microsoft Hyper-V
2. Requirements for using the Agent for Microsoft Hyper-V
3. About installing the Agent for Microsoft Hyper-V
4. Notes about using the Agent for Hyper-V
5. Disk space optimization with the Agent for Hyper-V
6. Adding a Hyper-V host to the list of servers on the Backup and Restore tab
7. Viewing details about Hyper-V resources
8. Installing the Agent for Windows on Hyper-V virtual machines
9. Push-installing the Agent for Windows to Hyper-V virtual machines
10. Backing up Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines
11. Restoring Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines
12. About instant recovery of a Hyper-V virtual machine
13. About Recovery Ready for Hyper-V virtual machines
Appendix E. Backup Exec Agent for Microsoft SQL Server
1. About the Agent for Microsoft SQL Server
2. Requirements for using the SQL Agent
3. About installing the SQL Agent
4. Backup strategies for SQL
5. Adding SQL Servers to the list of servers on the Backup and Restore tab
6. Configuring Backup Exec to run a consistency check before every SQL backup
7. Using snapshot technology with the SQL Agent
8. Using database snapshots for SQL Server
9. Backing up SQL databases and transaction logs
  1. Setting default backup options for SQL Server
10. Restoring SQL databases and transaction logs
  1. Restoring the SQL master database
  2. Restarting SQL using database copies
11. Disaster recovery of a SQL Server
  1. Manual recovery of a SQL Server
Appendix F. Backup Exec Agent for Microsoft Exchange Server
1. About the Backup Exec Exchange Agent
2. Requirements for using the Exchange Agent
3. Granting permissions on the Exchange Server to enable database backups and restores, and Granular Recovery Technology operations
4. About installing the Exchange Agent
5. Adding Exchange Servers and database availability groups to the list of servers on the Backup and Restore tab
6. Managing preferred server configurations for Microsoft Exchange Database Availability Groups
7. Recommended configurations for Exchange
8. Requirements for accessing Exchange mailboxes
9. Backup strategies for Exchange
10. How Granular Recovery Technology works with the Exchange Information Store
11. Snapshot and offhost backups with the Exchange Agent
12. Backing up Exchange data
  1. Setting default backup options for Exchange Server
13. Restoring Exchange data
14. Disaster recovery of an Exchange Server
Appendix G. Backup Exec Agent for Microsoft SharePoint
1. About the Agent for Microsoft SharePoint
2. About installing the Agent for Microsoft SharePoint
3. Requirements for the Agent for Microsoft SharePoint
4. Using the Agent for Microsoft SharePoint with SharePoint Server 2010/2013/2016 and SharePoint Foundation 2010/2013/2016
5. Adding a Microsoft SharePoint server farm to the list of servers on the Backup and Restore tab
6. Backing up Microsoft SharePoint data
  1. Setting default backup options for SharePoint
7. Restoring Microsoft SharePoint data
8. Disabling or enabling communication between a Microsoft SharePoint web server and Backup Exec
9. Viewing or changing SharePoint farm properties
10. Disaster recovery of Microsoft SharePoint 2010/2013/2016 data
Appendix H. Backup Exec Agent for Oracle on Windows or Linux Servers
1. About the Backup Exec Oracle Agent
2. About installing the Oracle Agent
3. Configuring the Oracle Agent on Windows computers and Linux servers
4. About authentication credentials on the Backup Exec server
  1. Setting authentication credentials on the Backup Exec server for Oracle operations
    1. Oracle job settings options
  2. Deleting an Oracle server from the Backup Exec server's list of authentication credentials
5. About Oracle instance information changes
6. About backing up Oracle databases
7. About restoring Oracle resources
8. Best practices for Backup Exec Agent for Oracle on Windows and Linux Servers
Appendix I. Backup Exec Agent for Enterprise Vault
1. About the Agent for Enterprise Vault
2. Requirements for the Enterprise Vault Agent
3. About installing the Enterprise Vault Agent
4. About backup methods for Enterprise Vault backup jobs
  1. Enterprise Vault backup options
5. About backing up Enterprise Vault components
6. About consistency checks for Enterprise Vault databases and Compliance and Discovery Accelerator databases
7. Restoring Enterprise Vault
8. Configuring Enterprise Vault to use the name of the new SQL Server that holds the Directory database
9. Best practices for the Enterprise Vault Agent
10. About the Backup Exec Migrator for Enterprise Vault
11. Enterprise Vault logon account
12. Enterprise Vault options
Appendix J. Backup Exec Agent for Microsoft Active Directory
1. About the Agent for Microsoft Active Directory
2. Requirements for the Agent for Microsoft Active Directory
3. About backing up Active Directory and ADAM/AD LDS
  1. Editing options for Active Directory and ADAM/AD LDS backup jobs
  2. Microsoft Active Directory backup job options
4. About restoring individual Active Directory and ADAM/AD LDS objects
Appendix K. Backup Exec Central Admin Server Feature
1. About the Central Admin Server feature
2. Requirements for installing CAS
3. How to choose the location for CAS storage and media data
4. About installing the Central Admin Server feature
  1. Push-installing a managed Backup Exec server from the central administration server
  2. Managed Backup Exec Server Configuration options
  3. Installing a managed Backup Exec server across a firewall
5. Upgrading an existing CAS installation
6. Changing a Backup Exec server to a central administration server
7. Changing a Backup Exec server to a managed Backup Exec server
8. Deleting a managed Backup Exec server from a CAS environment
9. Renaming a central administration server
10. Renaming a managed Backup Exec server
11. How to reduce network traffic in CAS
12. CAS distributed, centralized, and replicated catalog locations
13. Changing the settings for a managed Backup Exec server
14. What happens when CAS communication thresholds are reached
  1. Enabling or disabling communications between the managed Backup Exec server and the central administration server
15. Alerts and notifications in CAS
16. Enabling managed Backup Exec servers to use any available network interface card
17. About job delegation in CAS
  1. About copying jobs instead of delegating jobs in CAS
18. About adding storage devices in a CAS environment
19. How data lifecycle management (DLM) works in a CAS environment
20. Obtaining media audit information for a managed Backup Exec server
21. How to use Backup Exec server pools in CAS
  1. Selecting a Backup Exec server pool for backups
  2. Creating a Backup Exec server pool
  3. Adding managed Backup Exec servers to a Backup Exec server pool
  4. Deleting a Backup Exec server pool
  5. Removing a managed Backup Exec server from a Backup Exec server pool
22. How centralized restore works in CAS
  1. How CAS restores data that resides on multiple storage devices
23. About recovering failed jobs in CAS
24. Pausing or resuming a managed Backup Exec server
25. Stopping or starting Backup Exec services for a managed Backup Exec server
26. Viewing managed Backup Exec server properties
27. Viewing the settings for a central administration server
28. Disaster recovery in CAS
29. Troubleshooting CAS
30. Running the Backup Exec Utility for CAS operations
31. Uninstalling Backup Exec from the central administration server
32. Uninstalling Backup Exec from a managed Backup Exec server
Appendix L. Backup Exec Advanced Disk-based Backup Feature
1. About the Advanced Disk-based Backup feature
2. How to use synthetic backups in place of recurring full backups
3. Setting default backup options for the Advanced Disk-based Backup feature
4. About true image restore for synthetic backups
5. How to use off-host backup to process remote computer backups on the Backup Exec server
6. Configuring off-host backup options for a backup job
7. Best practices for off-host backup
8. Troubleshooting off-host backups
9. Off-host backup issues with hardware providers
Appendix M. Backup Exec NDMP Feature
1. Features of the NDMP feature
2. Requirements for using the NDMP feature
3. About installing the NDMP feature
4. Adding NDMP servers to Backup Exec
5. Sharing the tape drives on NDMP servers between multiple Backup Exec servers
6. NDMP backup options for NDMP servers
7. NDMP server backup selections
8. How to use patterns to exclude files and directories from an NDMP server backup
9. Supported configurations for duplicating data from NDMP servers
10. About restoring and redirecting restore data for NDMP servers
  1. NDMP server restore options
11. Setting the default backup options for the NDMP feature
12. Viewing the properties of an NDMP server
  1. NDMP server properties
13. Viewing storage properties for an NDMP server
  1. Storage properties for an NDMP server
Appendix N. Backup Exec Agent for Linux
1. About the Agent for Linux
2. About open files and the Agent for Linux
3. Requirements for the Agent for Linux
4. About installing the Agent for Linux
  1. Installing the Agent for Linux
  2. About the Backup Exec operators (beoper) group for the Agent for Linux
    1. Creating the Backup Exec operators (beoper) group manually
5. About establishing trust for a remote Linux computer in the Backup Exec list of servers
  1. Establishing trust and adding a remote Linux computer to the Backup Exec list of servers
6. Adding additional Backup Exec servers to which the Agent for Linux can publish information
7. About configuring the Agent for Linux
8. Excluding files and directories from all backup jobs for Linux computers
9. Editing configuration options for Linux computers
  1. Configuration options for Linux computers
10. About backing up a Linux computer by using the Agent for Linux
  1. Linux backup options
  2. About backing up and restoring Novell Open Enterprise Server (OES) components
    1. Requirements for backing up Novell Open Enterprise Server on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11. About restoring data to Linux computers
  1. About restoring Novell OES components
  2. Restore job options for Linux computers
12. Editing the default backup job options for Linux computers
  1. Default backup job options for Linux computers
13. Uninstalling the Agent for Linux
  1. Manually uninstalling the Agent for Linux
  2. Run-time scripts to remove when manually uninstalling the Agent for Linux
14. Starting the Agent for Linux daemon
15. Stopping the Agent for Linux daemon
16. Troubleshooting the Agent for Linux
Appendix O. Backup Exec Remote Media Agent for Linux
1. About the Remote Media Agent for Linux
2. How the Remote Media Agent for Linux works
3. Requirements for the Remote Media Agent for Linux
4. About open files and the Remote Media Agent for Linux
5. About installing the Remote Media Agent for Linux
  1. Installing the Remote Media Agent for Linux
6. Uninstalling the Remote Media Agent for Linux
7. Starting the Remote Media Agent for Linux daemon
8. Stopping the Remote Media Agent for Linux daemon
9. About establishing trust for a Remote Media Agent for Linux computer in the Backup Exec list of servers
  1. Establishing trust and adding a Remote Media Agent for Linux computer to the Backup Exec list of servers
10. Adding additional Backup Exec servers to which Remote Media Agent for Linux can publish
11. Finding simulated tape library files
12. About the Backup Exec operators (beoper) group for the Remote Media Agent for Linux
  1. Creating the Backup Exec operators (beoper) group manually for the Remote Media Agent for Linux
13. About adding a Linux server as a Remote Media Agent for Linux
  1. Adding a Linux server as a Remote Media Agent for Linux
  2. Remote Media Agent for Linux options
14. Changing the port for communications between the Backup Exec server and the Remote Media Agent for Linux
15. About creating storage device pools for devices attached to the Remote Media Agent for Linux
16. Editing properties for the Remote Media Agent for Linux
  1. Remote Media Agent for Linux properties
17. Deleting a Remote Media Agent for Linux from the Backup Exec list of servers
18. Sharing a Remote Media Agent for Linux between multiple Backup Exec servers
19. About backing up data by using the Remote Media Agent for Linux
20. About restoring data by using the Remote Media Agent for Linux
21. About the Tape Library Simulator Utility
22. Creating a simulated tape library
  1. Simulated Tape Library options
23. Viewing simulated tape libraries properties
  1. Simulated tape library properties
24. Deleting a simulated tape library
25. Managing simulated tape libraries from the command line
26. Command line switches for the Tape Library Simulator Utility
27. Troubleshooting the Remote Media Agent for Linux
Appendix P. Accessibility and Backup Exec
1. About accessibility and Backup Exec
2. About keyboard shortcuts in Backup Exec
3. List box navigation in Backup Exec
4. Tabbed dialog box navigation in Backup Exec
5. About setting accessibility options
Glossary

About Recovery Ready for VMware virtual machines

Backup Exec has introduced the Recovery Ready feature with Backup Exec 16 Feature Pack 1. With the Recovery Ready feature, you can use the Validate VM for Recovery operation to validate the recoverability of virtual machines. When you create and run a Validate Virtual Machine for Recovery job, it runs tests on the virtual machine after which it is marked as recovery ready.

Recovery ready virtual machines can be used to do the following:

Disaster recovery readiness: In a disaster recovery scenario, administrators are sure that the validated virtual machines are recoverable.
Vault the backups to cloud or tape: Validates the backup sets before you vault them to devices such as cloud and tape.
Audit and compliance of backups: For meeting company audit and regulatory compliance requirements, you can provide validation information of your backups for virtual machines.

When the Validate Virtual Machine for Recovery job runs, the virtual machine is registered on the vCenter server or ESX host with the host name in the Validate_VM name_GUID format and then powered on. The virtual machine is created only for validation purpose. It is a temporary virtual machine, which is removed after validation is completed. After the power on is complete, a heartbeat check is run to ensure that the VMware Tools Service is running.

During virtual machine validation there is no data transfer.

When you create the Validate Virtual Machine for recovery job, before the validation job runs, you can select the maximum time that is allowed for a virtual machine to boot. The default value is 10 minutes. You can select a value between 1 to 60 minutes.

See Configuring default backup settings.

After these checks are successfully completed, the virtual machine is marked as ready for recovery.

All information about the validation is part of the job log. After validation you can generate the Recovery Ready Validation Summary report to view the summary of the virtual machines that you validated.

See Recovery Ready Validation Summary.

To see the validation status, on the Backup and Restore tab, double-click the host name or on the Storage tab, double-click the disk storage name. In the left pane, click Backup Sets. For the selected server or storage view, the Validation Status is displayed.

The following table describes the process of validating VMware virtual machines for recovery.

Table: Virtual machine validation process

Step	Description
Step 1	Add the vCenter server or ESX host.
Step 2	Take a disk-based GRT backup of the virtual machine that is hosted on the vCenter server or ESX host. The Recovery Ready feature supports full, incremental, and deferential backup sets.
Step 3	Run a Validate Virtual Machine for Recovery job for a VMware virtual machine.
Step 4	Backup Exec virtualizes the backup set.
Step 5	Backup Exec creates a share as an NFS datastore on the Media server. The datastore becomes accessible on the host where the virtual machine is validated for recovery. The host uses the NFS datastore as read-only. Note: Since Windows Server for NFS is not secure, the share that is created by Backup Exec is available on the network.
Step 6	Backup Exec runs the following tests in the given order on the VMware virtual machine being validated. Register the virtual machine Power On the virtual machine Heartbeat check of the virtual machine
Step 7	If all the tests are successful, Backup Exec marks the VMware virtual machine as validated.

Tests run on a VMware virtual machine being validated

The following tests are run on a VMware virtual machine that is being validated.

Table: Tests run on a VMware virtual machine

Test	Description
Register the virtual machine	The first test is to register the virtual machine on the vCenter server or ESX host.
Power ON the virtual machine	The second test is to power ON the registered virtual machine.
Heartbeat test	The third test is to check the VMware Tools service. If this service runs successfully on the powered on virtual machine, the heartbeat test passes. VMware Tools must be installed and the VMware Tools service must be running on the backed up virtual machine for the heartbeat check to be successful. If VMware Tools is not installed, the validation job fails and for the corresponding backup set, Validation failed status is displayed.

Test

Description

The first test is to register the virtual machine on the vCenter server or ESX host.

Power ON the virtual machine

The second test is to power ON the registered virtual machine.

Heartbeat test

The third test is to check the VMware Tools service. If this service runs successfully on the powered on virtual machine, the heartbeat test passes.

VMware Tools must be installed and the VMware Tools service must be running on the backed up virtual machine for the heartbeat check to be successful. If VMware Tools is not installed, the validation job fails and for the corresponding backup set, Validation failed status is displayed.

All information related to the test results is also available in the job log.

Validation status for a VMware virtual machine

During validation, the following statuses are displayed for the backup set of a VMware virtual machine:

Validation successful: The backup set has passed all tests and is recovery ready.
Validation failed: The backup set has failed the tests and is not recovery ready.
Unable to validate: The virtual machine is not validated because of environmental issues. Hence, the backup sets cannot be validated.

During validation the following statuses are displayed for the validation job of a VMware virtual machine:

Successful: The validation job has passed all tests and the virtual machine is recovery ready.
Success with Exceptions: The validation job has passed all tests but when there is a clean-up of resources that are used for validation, the power off fails.
Failed: The validation job has failed the tests or validation is not performed.

If validation fails or Backup Exec is unable to validate a virtual machine for recovery, you can check the validation job log for more details.

The following matrix gives details about the tests and validation status.

Table: Validation status for a VMware virtual machine

Validation test	Backup set status	Validation job status	Reason for failure
Register virtual machine	If registration is successful, go to the next check.
	Validation failed	Failed	Backup set issue
	Unable to validate	Failed	Environment issue
Power ON virtual machine	If power ON is successful, go to the next check.
Power ON virtual machine	Unable to validate	Failed	Connectivity issue or check not attempted as registration failed
Heartbeat check	Unable to validate	Failed	Test not attempted
	Validation failed	Failed	Boot issue or VMware Tools issue
	Validation successful	Successful	Virtual machine is validated and recovery ready

See Requirements for validating a VMware virtual machine for recovery.

See Notes about validating a VMware virtual machine for recovery.

See Creating a validate virtual machine for recovery job.