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Musings of an IT Bloke: July 2009
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Musings of an IT Bloke. Saturday, 25 July 2009. For those who don't know me, I'm a long standing I.T. Geek, who cannot resist a good moan from time to time. I've been thinking of running a blog for a while, particularly since my friend and colleague started his (see http:/ techsoop.blogspot.com/). Hopefully I can contribute the useful bit of information alongside a few rants. The Backup Exec Goat. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Follow me on Twitter. Tech Soop Geeky Blog. View my complete profile.
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Microsoft Data Protection Heaven and Backup Exec Hell: Another Top Tip for DPM - "replica is inconsistent" on System State and Bare Metal Recovery...
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Microsoft Data Protection Heaven and Backup Exec Hell. Thursday, 12 May 2011. Another Top Tip for DPM - "replica is inconsistent" on System State and Bare Metal Recovery. I thought I'd share this Top Tip. It is reasonably well documented, but a classic thing you'd often miss. It's dead simple to sort, run Server Manager, click Add Feature, check "Windows Server Backup" and wait for it to install - job done - run a consistency check and they'll be sorted and work thereafter. The Backup Exec Goat. 3 System...
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Microsoft Data Protection Heaven and Backup Exec Hell: DPM 2012 - no reports on backup jobs for you!
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Microsoft Data Protection Heaven and Backup Exec Hell. Thursday, 23 August 2012. DPM 2012 - no reports on backup jobs for you! This morning we came across an interesting issue with DPM 2012, something which is really trivial, but really annoying if you don't know what is wrong! Recently I moved our DPM servers over to DPM 2012 - and was amazed by how smoothly it went (more because I'm used to upgrading Backup Exec and watching the earth cave in), and all seemed to be working well. Despite having all the ...
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Microsoft Data Protection Heaven and Backup Exec Hell: DPM and Manual Replicas. Not quite as intuitive as the rest of Data Protection Manager!
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Microsoft Data Protection Heaven and Backup Exec Hell. Saturday, 1 June 2013. DPM and Manual Replicas. Not quite as intuitive as the rest of Data Protection Manager! We don't tend to post here very often anymore, mostly because it's rare there's anything much to say since we moved away from Backup Exec (which seems to be just as bad as ever when I recently evaluated it to see if it had improved). The basic principle is that you literally "copy" the source drives files to another media - like a removable ...
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Microsoft Data Protection Heaven and Backup Exec Hell: Follow your own advice...
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Microsoft Data Protection Heaven and Backup Exec Hell. Wednesday, 6 October 2010. Follow your own advice. Recently I had an issue. CASO couldn't talk to all of the managed media servers (sort of making them unmanaged then.) Much muttering and fiddling later and nothing. So I try and think how to describe the exact issue, and google for it (naturally you google last after messing around because that would be akin otherwise to actually reading the manual that comes with stuff you buy). The Backup Exec Goat.
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Microsoft Data Protection Heaven and Backup Exec Hell: Sometimes you want Backup Exec back...
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Microsoft Data Protection Heaven and Backup Exec Hell. Monday, 13 June 2011. Sometimes you want Backup Exec back. So some weeks on and DPM on the whole is everything a backup product should be. There are a few annoyances and a few things that need radical improvement, but on the most important factor - backup reliability, DPM wins hands down. All in all a bit poor and makes me want BEWS back, just for that bit anyhow. The Backup Exec Goat. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). IT Rants from Vince. 3 System...
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Microsoft Data Protection Heaven and Backup Exec Hell: Backup Exec Licensing
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Microsoft Data Protection Heaven and Backup Exec Hell. Tuesday, 29 December 2009. Am I the only person who thinks the licensing scheme of Backup Exec is insane. Why must there be so many options which become increasingly expensive for features that should just be included, and why exactly must we pay for enhancements which are often essentially fixes for features they never implemented properly the first time. The Backup Exec Goat. 31 December 2009 at 19:01. The Backup Exec Goat. 31 December 2009 at 19:06.
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Microsoft Data Protection Heaven and Backup Exec Hell: Common DPM Errors...
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Microsoft Data Protection Heaven and Backup Exec Hell. Friday, 6 May 2011. Since we've now got most of the Data Protection Manager 2010 installations done, I thought I'd share a few common issues we've come across, and the fixes. Maybe this'll save you a LOT of hassle. In our case, we had a Cluster with 2 servers, one in a Subnet (we'll call this Subnet A), another in a different subnet (Subnet B) and our DPM Servers (and the DPM AD Network) in another (Subnet C). This ia bit of an odd one and just "happ...
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Musings of an IT Bloke: Welcome...
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Musings of an IT Bloke. Saturday, 25 July 2009. For those who don't know me, I'm a long standing I.T. Geek, who cannot resist a good moan from time to time. I've been thinking of running a blog for a while, particularly since my friend and colleague started his (see http:/ techsoop.blogspot.com/). Hopefully I can contribute the useful bit of information alongside a few rants. The Backup Exec Goat. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Follow me on Twitter. Tech Soop Geeky Blog. View my complete profile.
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