Tuning

Backup Exec Best Practices Guide v3 available

Last Week I had the chance to assist Veritas EMEA in updating (and extending) the official Backup Exec Best Practices Guide. The guide goes into detail on how to configure your backup server’s hardware and how you can tune Backup Exec to get the best performance. In addition you’ll find answers to some of the …

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Tool: PingUs Performance Tuner for VMware Backups

This tool is useful for setting the buffer values on the Backup Exec Server that are used for backing up VMware hosted virtual machines. Setting these values correctly will increase the backup performance dramatically. There are recommended values for usage with the PingUs backup appliances but you can also use the tool to set the …

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Using Backup Exec with Hyper-V 2.0

Introduction Using Backup Exec to back up virtual environments that use Hyper-V 2 (Windows Server 2008 R2) as hypervisor may be not as simple as it first looks. In this paper I want to cover some of the reasons why partners and customers struggle getting reliable backups in those environments, especially when using clustered Hyper-V …

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