Again, 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 most […]
On August 2nd 2016, Veritas released Feature Pack 5 for Backup Exec 15. So, what’s new here and is it worth the effort to upgrade? Support for New or Updated Platforms and Applications SQL 2016 SQL 2014 SP2 Exchange 2016 CU2 Exchange 2013 CU13 SharePoint CUs 2013, 2010 SharePoint 2013 with SQL 2016 instance Customizable
Backup Exec – Feature Pack 5: Mitigating the RTO Read More »
On April 18th 2016, Veritas released Feature Pack 4 for Backup Exec 15. So, what’s new here and is it worth the effort to upgrade? Support for New or Updated Platforms and Applications First of all, FP4 brings support for new and updated versions of Windows, Linux and VMware operating systems and applications like Enterprise
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Hello and welcome back. This is the last part of my short series of posts about tuning backups. I want to show you the performance, Backup Exec can reach. Disclaimer: Of course, this is neither an agreement that these performance values can be reached in every environment on the globe, nor that faster environments are
Hello and welcome back. This is part four of my short series of posts about tuning backups. I want to show you the performance, Backup Exec can reach. Disclaimer: Of course, this is neither an agreement that these performance values can be reached in every environment on the globe, nor that faster environments are not
Hello and welcome back. This is part three of my short series of posts about tuning backups. I want to show you the performance, Backup Exec can reach. Disclaimer: Of course, this is neither an agreement that these performance values can be reached in every environment on the globe, nor that faster environments are not
Hello and welcome back. This is part two of my short series of posts about tuning backups. I want to show you the performance, Backup Exec can reach. Disclaimer: Of course, this is neither an agreement that these performance values can be reached in every environment on the globe, nor that faster environments are not
Hello and welcome to part one of a short series of posts about tuning backups. I want to show you the performance, Backup Exec can reach. Disclaimer: Of course, this is neither an agreement that these performance values can be reached in every environment on the globe, nor that faster environments are not possible. It’s
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
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
Tool: PingUs Performance Tuner for VMware Backups Read More »