Backup exec has an expansive portfolio of highpowered agents and options to scale. No drivers need to be loaded, as the drivers are already on the diskbox and removing the old autoloader from backup exec will not cause the drivers to be removed. This article provides a workaround to manually install the driver to have. Apr 17, 2018 add a new disk to the backup schedule by running the wbadmin command from an elevated command prompt. Control panel administrative tools computer management disk management. Write down the properties of any backup exec disk storage that you will move to the. Because theres no media recognized, i cant erase the tape as the option is grayed. I tried to run the backup manually to test, but i get the error. They had performed all the usual steps, such as powercycling the library and then powercycling the server, but still no dice. These fields can come in handy for example when you are trying to identify tape 1 as week 1 or as month january. Backup exec has been around in one form or another since the early 1990s and has a reputation as one of the more reliable backup products on the market.
A sixstep guide the benefits of disk based backup are appealing, but moving from tape to disk takes planning. Apparently since lto4, the drive has a sensor to check whether there is a tape in the slot or not. Specify a disk or tape backup destination sql server 03142017. You are referring to backup to tape job which could be either linked to backup to disk job or to the whole repository in both cases it would wait until new backups appear and then fire them to tape media. The first alert occurred because the server could not access the backuptodisk device. No media detected in the tape drive data recovery general. How to migrate move backup exec 2014 from one computer to. Hp ultrium 5 lto drives dropping offline using backup exec.
Use eject media to eject the media currently in the standalone drive some drives do not support a softwaredriven media eject. Whether using a storage area network, networked access storage or removable external disks, backup to disk b2d has several advantages. Each data transfer element represents an ultrium tape drive within the library. Please remove the media from the drive odd apparently since lto4, the drive has a sensor to check whether there is a tape in the slot or not. It administrators can directly attach tape and disk storage devices to a remote. You will notice once tape is rewritten or formatted the description is lost. To eject media from a drive on the navigation bar, click devices. Run the following command from an elevated command prompt to determine the disk identifier of the new disk. You can pinpoint the problem service by opening service control manager and checking to see which services have failed. Symantec backup exec installing symantec tape device drivers by running tapeinst. This service provides several com server interfaces for managing and accessing devices and media.
After cataloging a media, you can then, on the storage device view the tape drive, see the backup sets on that media. How to create a disaster recovery disk in backup exec 20. Backup exec for windows servers fails to detect the tape drive. Unless the tape device or the removablemedia device is recognized by rsm in windows, backup exec cannot detect and use the device. Based on the output, locate the disk that will be added to the scheduled backup. Disktodisktotape setup help needed community forums.
Open backup exec, go to options or something like that and uncheck it. If drive letter assignment gets rearranged due to windows usb drive behavior, backup drives wont come online. Support for powervault tl2000 documentation dell us. Removable disks in backup exec 20122014 go into readonly. If the media is a tape, the tape is rewound and you may be instructed to manually remove it. I would like some assistance with determining the most efficient setup for backing up disk to disk to tape. Restoring filesfolders from tape backup techspot forums. About media overwrite protection levels for tape and disk. Veritas dlo is not currently supported by the quantum dxi product line. Click the backup tab as shown below, and under backup destination, your tape drive format should appear. Im just starting off my experience with tape drives and one of our sites have been backing up to their tape drive with the drive mapped and shared as a normal windows drive. Jul 14, 2012 files from backup to disk folders are media and they conflict with media which is currently used for backup. The job will be submitted as a run now job, unless you submitted the job on hold.
To eliminate the possibility of a faulty drive removable media, attempt to connect another tape deviceremovable media to the scsi controller and verify if rsm and backup exec are able to detect the other device. The device appears as unknown in the device manager. Every night backups are pushed to tape through backup server. Sbe however, use the serial number of the drive, to keep track of the drives. Hp ultrium 5 lto drives dropping offline using backup exec 2012 sp3 regarding the most recent posting, i havent looked at this in a couple of years but the last time i did we spent a lot of time and were unable to find any reliable way of using tape drives with vmware. When finished go back to the device manager and rescan. I think i did some research about this a couple of years ago and the answer was no. So, i ran into this issue today where a customer running backup exec 12.
Please note that depending on the current media overwrite protection setting, imported and allocated media may be overwritable as well. Here are a few best practices that should help your business make a successful move toward disk to disk to tape backup. If the backup exec server runs on windows server 2012 or later, the configure storage wizard option install tape device drivers is not available, and tapeinst. Verify the tape library and drives show up in be and manually kick off an inventory job or one of you backup to tape jobs. It seems that d2d2t feature in backup exec 11d is buggy. In short, to duplicate between media servers you have to move the media from one media server to the other, then duplicate it. Error message when you try to add an additional disk to a. Disk to disk to tape backup in backup exec niktipss blog. Installing symantec tape device drivers by running tapeinst. We also make recommendations on how to set up backup exec to best integrate. As for manually deleting them, i would say you would be ok deleting.
Backup exec please insert overwritable media into the drive. Last, b2d can be a cheap, intermediate stage to quickly capture a backup set for later offline transfer to. How to reconfigure backup exec after an autoloader swap out rm disk to disk to tape d2d2t. How to duplicate a backup set from one media server to another. Symantec hopes to quiet backup exec 2012 upgrade complaints. Unless you manually move the tape to another vault in, it will remain offline until the tape is either moved to a vault or put back in the drive and.
Then of course, it asks for the 2010 installation disk. The following components can be removed and replaced. How to troubleshoot issues with a robotic library autoloader. By clicking here, you understand that we use cookies to improve your experience on our website. The backup exec remote media agent for linux servers provides storage. About tape drives and robotic libraries symantec backup exec. All this means that i dont have a straightforward way to link removable backup to disk folders to external drives. These drives were all in one drive pool in backup exec.
Specify disk or tape backup destination sql server. Solution make sure that the device is first compatible with your version of backup exec by checking it against the correct hardware compatibility list hcl. Four sas externally accessible disk drives you can remove one faulty disk drive while the appliance is turned on. Removable disks in backup exec 20122014 go into readonly mode. I use the backup exec 11d version and i pretty sure it will not backup to the tape drive if its not connected locally.
If a removal storage service error appears, ignore it. Tape drives have been part of computing in one form or another since 1951, with the remington rand drive, which offered a tiny 224 kilobytes of storage data for univac. When you eject a tape it is marked as offline and media location will be blank if you look in the media tab of backup exec. How backup exec searches for overwritable media in tape drives. Today tape drives are almost exclusively used for network backup. Remove the tape diagnostic tools after the diagnostic tests are complete. Shows folders and virtual machines associated with host. Backup exec will not perform an inventory job supertekboy. In our segment, nobody likes change, said amit walia, symantecs vp of product management for backup exec. Rise of disk storage leaves tape with specialized backup. In the example, a dds 3 tape drive has been installed, so the backup destination is 4mm dds.
Using the aws storage gateway virtual tape library with veritas backup exec. Cheap, large capacity drives accept large data sets in a single session with no media changes. Even so, its not time to let go of that precious tape system just yet. I have rotated several tapes through it and they all show as no media. I have a folder on my email server that i use backup exec on.
And today, tools are available to simplify the transfer of data from tape to disk drive based systems. You might need to delete the drive, in sbe and rediscover it. Some drives do not support a softwaredriven media eject. Do this by going to the start menu accessories system tools backup if the backup or restore wizard appears, click on advanced mode as shown below. How to reconfigure backup exec after an autoloader swap. To ensure that we meet these quality standards, we are adjusting the time frame for the availability of the backup exec 2010 r3 sp3 and backup exec 2012 sp2 beta software to may, 20. Backup exec from symantec takes exclusive control over tape drive, and no other software, including windows nt backup, can access it acronis products cannot access tape drives if there is symantecs backup exec installed knowledge base. Symantec backup exec 2012 guardian network solutions. Rebuild catalogs when catalog operation fails in backup exec.
Navigate to device manager to verify that veritas tape device drives were installed for the tape drive, as follows. When i ran the first backup job on the newly installed hp lto5 ultrium 3280 tape drive, it gave an interesting alert. Acronis products cannot access tape drives if there is. We upgraded for a couple of reasons, one was that we had a large number of tapes required each night to do the backup and that our backups were taking almost 18. The final step is to run the windows backup program and ensure that your tape drive is detected. Overwritable media includes scratch, blank, and recyclable media. These attributes are indeed important but the facts are that tape is not the only backup media with these attributes. Sql server azure sql database azure synapse analytics sql dw parallel data warehouse this topic describes how to specify a disk or tape as a backup destination in sql server 2019 15. Consult the online help for more information on overwritable media. When i have 2 tape drives sitting there empty and doing nothing, i get a little concerned, though. Does anyone know if its possible to configure a backup in backup exec 11d so that it will back up to an hp tape drive that is physically connected to another server.
The media in drive tape drive is written in an unrecognized format. Storage elements 1 to 24 represent the 24 configured slots within the library. Jun 25, 2011 when i ran the first backup job on the newly installed hp lto5 ultrium 3280 tape drive, it gave an interesting alert. You can try to implement backup of raw backup to disk folder, but it is associated with number of difficulties when restoring. That no longer exists in 2012, cause it is its own product now. A snapshot script triggers the storsimple cloud snapshot manager start or delete. I recently readded the drive to veritas as i received a ready. Backup exec with 2 tape drives ars technica openforum. Storsimple 8000 series as backup target with backup exec. No idle devices are available job status in backup exec is not a problem because there are other jobs already using the devices that job is assigned to.
How to restore data from a reattached or reinserted disk based. Dec 31, 2015 external hard drive removable no media in disk management posted in external hardware. I then went back and added the drive as a backup drive, and selected the option to format it. Symantec backup exec advanced disk based backup option. How to install backup exec remote agent for windows. Symantec backup exec remote media agent for linux servers. Storage element 25 represents the importexport slot of the library, also known as the mail slot in the hp storageworks d2d backup system web management. The new autoloader and drive should be detected automatically and be displayed on the devices tab of backup exec as sony3 and sony4, or perhaps tandberg1 and tandberg2. Jul 10, 2012 ok, after this blog, the following remark on recent symantecs blog post is quite funny to me. Backup exec installations can have one or more backup exec servers, which are responsible for moving data from one or more locations to a storage medium, including cloud, disk, tape, and ost device. For instance, i buy extra hard drives that i keep in case i have one or two that break down in my configuration. For example, no media appends across different jobs are allowed. Follow the onscreen prompts and the new device drivers for the tape drive will be loaded. Fourth, the tape is believed to be a costeffective storage media.
I had the same issue with our tl2000, i had to unlock the cartridges from backup exec 2010 that i had the reserved spot for the cleaning tape in and manually remove do not export and import cleaning tapes and manually install the new tape. But when the backup is setup to run in the evening on a schedule it does not run as the backup to disk folders goes offline and therefore has to be switched back on line. Backup to disk data transfer speeds are faster than almost all tape devices except for highend tape drives. Mar 28, 2019 backup exec has been around in one form or another since the early 1990s and has a reputation as one of the more reliable backup products on the market.
How data lifecycle management dlm deletes expired backup sets on diskbased storage backup sets changing. Run the catalog job again to rebuild the catalogs, it should complete successfully, if so rerun the restore or backup job. Solved backup exec how to restore from offline media. This setup seemed to work, at first, since backup exec was finding disks and using them. Installing the windows management instrumentation performance counter provider. Install the ost plugin on the backup exec media server. Unless you manually move the tape to another vault in, it will remain offline until the tape is either moved to a vault or put back in the drive and inventoried. Even so, errors do occur in the veritas product, and organizations need backup exec support.
Nov 23, 2012 restoring filesfolders from tape backup. Moving from backup exec to veeam veeam community forums. As storage prices come down, it may be time to consider upgrading older backup approaches to something more robust and flexible. We just upgraded our lto4 tape library to a dell 124t lto6 drive. Backup exec please insert overwritable media into the. They argue that backup exec 2012 is better suited to virtual machine and disk based backups than backup exec 2010. Is this a normal occurrence when you remove a disk from the storage pool, remove it, and then readd it as a backup disk. Backup exec will definitely backup remote serversworkstations to a media server that backup exec is installed on as long as the. What i found, which appears to be new to backup exec 2012, is a setting that automatically switches any removable disk to readonly mode after a set number of days. How to copy data directly from a virtual tape library to a physical.
I choose the standard backup settings and i woke up this morning only to find out the hard drive has 5 mb left. Symantec backup exec 2010 r2 manual uninstall i have a backup server running fully patched windows 2008 std r2 with a failed installation of backup exec 2010 r3. When the library is in the ready state, usually after initializing and scanning, power on the server. After working perfectly for many months, backup exec 2012 shows no media in the tape drive. If you want to use the description field of a tape in backup exec to identify the backup media set. Bu exec is located on server1 and the tape drive is connected to server2.
Using a command prompt to uninstall the agent for windows from a remote computer. Overflows disk space limit and how many scratch b2d files. The data may be from the local system or from a remote system. Symantec customers click here to learn about your new portal experience. With that installed for 2010, you cannot upgrade to 2012 unless you remove it. Lto7 is not recognized under windows server 2012 and 2012 r2. Best practices for disktodisktotape backup biztech. View and download symantec backup exec 3600 r2 getting started manual online. There is a tape in the tape drive, i have verified that the tape drive and tape are working using hp storageworks library and tape tools but veritas does not see the tape. Click start control panel add remove programs or programs and features select the thirdparty backup application or tool, and then click uninstall. Installing the windows management instrumentation provider.
I have a 500 gb hard drive that i dont do anything with except let windows use it for a back. Cannot upgrade symantec backup exec windows agent 2010r3 to 2014 agent 2010 r3 to 2014 fails on windows 2003 r2. Typical backup solution in most organizations consists of backup server and tape drive autoloader tape library connected directly to backup server. And they point out the symantec user forum thread included only a tiny sampling of backup exec s massive customer base. If you are moving any tape driverobotic library to the destination backup exec. It has now disappeared but still shows fine in device manager. When you double click on the tape drive and goes to media properties, its written there is no media in the drive. How to restore data from a reattached or reinserted diskbased storage device. Do not remove backup exec from the source computer until the migration of data and media to the destination computer is complete. Best practices for disktodisk to tape backup biztech.
Discussion in servers started by yocs, jan 18, 2012. Before pressing restore, click on the server name the media set is associated with. Rebuild catalogs when catalog operation fails in backup exec it should now appear once again in online media section, under devices tab. Azure storsimple is a hybrid cloud storage solution from microsoft. Backup exec stuck on loading media solutions experts. Unless you manually move the tape to another vault in, it will remain offline until the tape is either moved to a vault or put back in the drive. How to reconfigure backup exec after an autoloader swap out. About tape drives and robotic libraries when you install backup exec, all standalone tape drives and robotic libraries that are connected to. I might be missing an option in the new v7 console but i am trying to set up a scheduled inventory of the tape drives standard drives, no robotic library so that when our helpdesk put in the new daily tapes they dont have to manually inventory the drives. We upgraded for a couple of reasons, one was that we had a large number of tapes required each night to do the backup and that our backups were taking almost 1820 hours to complete. They would swap the drives out weekly, so each drive would be offline for as much as 3 weeks. I bought a brand new u1243837 ultra 500gb external hard drive but as soon as i hook it up to the. Or you may be able to move the current hardware to another server to see if the same behavior is seen.
Explore five common veritas backup exec error codes, which range from services not starting to backup storage. You are referring to backup to tape job which could be either linked to backup to disk job or to the whole repository in both cases it would wait until new backup s appear and then fire them to tape media. Yes, we have two separate tape jobs one backup to tape another is file to tape. How do i reset cleaning tape counter on tl4000 web. Symantec enterprise security learn about the latest support portal enhancements learn about the latest support portal enhancements learn about the latest support portal enhancements learn about the latest support portal enhancements. We also make recommendations on how to set up backup exec to best. D2d2t duplicate jobs which transfer data from disk to tape are insanely slow and nobody has yet solved this problem. Do not install tape diagnostic tools when backup exec services are running. Idc, worldwide diskbased data protection and recovery 20122016.
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