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One day your computer could be performing fine and the next it might not even boot at all. If you have made a complete computer image backup, you have nothing to worry about, unless of course you have a hardware issue like a malfunctioning hard drive, motherboard, power supply, etc. The answer to that is the System Recovery Disc. If you downloaded the. Accept it to continue. Unless you need network access, you can disable the networking services option in the next window.
You are now presented with the main menu where you can select the tasks that you can perform. Please refer to the user guide to learn about all the other options.
To recover our computer, we simply select the Recover tab and then select Recover My Computer option. Browse for the recovery point and follow the instructions.
Symantec BESR also gives users the ability to turn any computer backup image they create into a virtual hard drive. This virtual hard drive image can then be used in a virtual machine. The advantages of working in one of these virtual machines is that things you do inside it will not affect your host operating system. Therefore, virtual machines make a great and cheap way to test out software before deploying them into your production machine.
I wrote more about virtual machines here in this article. In the first screen, you get to select which virtual format you want to convert to. VHD method. Next, we specify a location to place the. VHD file. Remember, the location you store the VHD file must have enough hard drive space for it. If your image file is about 30GB in size, then the virtual hard disk file will be similar in size as well.
The next option asks whether you want to run Windows Mini-Setup mode during the conversion. Doing so can provide for a smoother operation when you use it in a virtual machine. If you need to make any changes, hit the Back button. Otherwise proceed to begin the conversion!
You can sit back and relax or do some shopping because it usually takes a while, especially if your image file is huge……. You can also elect to download Virtual PC Once you have created the virtual machine and chosen to use the VHD file you have just created in BESR, simply fire it up and wait for everything to load. Once again, this will take a while. Grab a beer or do some other productive task. Installation was a breeze considering that this is a full-fledged backup product. The install was fast and everything was working in full effect after one computer reboot.
Create a full computer image backup? Back up only certain files and folders along with specifying different file types? Want to clone your existing hard drive to a bigger one?
Want to back up to a network location or FTP server? Want to restore to a computer with different hardware? Incremental back up points? Define your own backup schedule for each backup job?
Encrypt your backups for security purposes? Convert to a virtual hard drive format? Want to throttle performance and network speed? Yeah, you get the point. Everything was just a simple click away. I do find it weird that the Copy Drive option was not found in the Tasks drop down menu but only when you click on the Advanced section.
Is it because Symantec thinks that this feature is hardly used on a daily basis and so they chose to hide the option elsewhere? In that case, I feel that the option to perform a virtual hard drive conversion should also be located in the same Advanced section. Also, the View menu comprises of links that takes you to some of the same locations located throughout the main interface.
Luckily, Symantec got this locked down. You define many, if not all, of the jobs and tasks in BESR via wizards. Some power users may dislike wizards but I find it very intuitive and easy to use. I never once got confused about what BESR was asking of me.
You can access pretty much everything you would need to do via the Tasks drop down menu and the wizard will guide you through the process of defining the backup job. You can also easily view and manage all of your backup jobs with a single click of a button. Recovering files from your backup is as simple as it can be as well once you have gone through the process at least once. BESR does just that, and then some. What I mean is that Microsoft already includes a pretty handy backup and restore feature in Windows Vista and Windows 7.
For many home users, these two backup tasks is all that they will ever need to perform for their home computers. The rest is just a bonus. Starting with Windows 7 Home Premium the edition most home users are using , Microsoft allowed the users to be also able to create a complete PC backup. Unlike with Vista, only the Business edition and higher were able to. No problem. They achieve the same goal with BESR in that they help to backup your data in case one day you accidentally deleted something or your system crashes.
Definitely yes. If you have any issues with Backup Exec not removing old backups here is a possible solution. The same account and password trick might work but I’m not going to be implementing it.
The only reason why I tried to get them to connect was just to see if I could reproduce the “problem” you had. Since you now know that indeed you can’t backup individual files and folders from client computers over the network, there is no incentive for me to get this to work anymore. Just for clarification, every computer has the Administrator account.
It’s built-in. However, by default in Windows 7 and Vista, it is disabled. The initial setup user account does not somehow replace this special Administrator account. That initial setup account is only made a member of the local administrators group instead so that it has all the privileges. But yes, I agree. It’s all about a user’s or organization’s wants and needs. I still think that BESR is an excellent stand-alone backup program. I wasn’t even aware of this problem of not being able to perform a remote backup of a client’s individual files and folders until I read your comment.
For that I am glad because I now have a better idea of when or when not to recommend this program to users. Workgroups are very tricky… nothing I can advise as I’ve barely worked with them. Perhaps you can create new user account on each of your computer with the same user name and password? What I know is sometimes Windows has the Administrator account, sometimes its not there as the “Administrator” account is named after a user who did the initial setup etc…. Unfortunately even if I set up full software, schedules, map network drives for all, I cannot monitor the status of backups unless I check on each physical machine which is impossible.
As you said — it defeats the purpose of unified backups! A simpler solution and FREE might be to use freeware Sync software on each laptop and backup to server. Anyway, it seems the product can’t meet my needs, but its likely to fulfil needs of several others who want Bare Metal restore ability, backup full drives, have the capacity to do so — unfortunately I don’t, hence potential buyers should NOT feel its a bad product — it just doesn’t satisfy our requirements.
My two computers are in a simple workgroup, not domain. However, that doesn’t work at all. It just refuses to accept it along with the password to connect over the network. I also tried to manually install not deploy the agent on the other computer but it still refuses to accept the network connection. Totally frustrating as it can’t even do something so simple. As for the remote folder and files backup, I know it sounds difficult but can’t you try to configure a scheduled backup on each individual computer to backup what you want folders and files and then have it be stored on a server elsewhere?
It’s a hassle as you might have to map a network drive for each client computer but this should be a one-time procedure as future backups should then occur automatically according to the schedule. But I guess you’re right. If a product cannot meet your business needs, it’s time to go elsewhere. I had to do that. The Symantec Connect link mentions you cannot deploy the agent to Windows 7 clients but I did- it worked for me fine! I had to disable the firewall of course.
I didn’t have to change DCom settings as mentioned. You have to install the software on each client PC and this will just make life difficult — having to monitor each user’s backup by accessing locally from machine! I also had an issue trying to install the BESR Management solution — I tried on 3 VMs, downloaded the installation media twice, different extractors etc but kept getting an installation error. Eventually I was guided on the forum to change an xml file and bang… it worked fine.
I’m now gonna start exploring BE DLO for my tasks — I don’t need the bare metal restore ability — I just need to backup important work fines on client computer. However, if it cannot meet the needs of uses like ours, it would be a problem in the long term!
Well, this is pathetic. In attempts to try and reproduce your situation, I can’t even get BESR to connect to my remote machine! This is sad because I have made sure to follow the instructions in the manual along with other tips such as disabling Simple File Sharing, enabling DCOM, and even disabling the firewall completely to no avail. I keep getting stuck where it asks me to input the remote computer’s username and password.
Additionally, Backup Exec installation media also has a Remote Administrator feature which can be installed on a remote computer or workstation to administer the Backup Exec server remotely. Backup Exec may install the additional products: [18]. 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.
The data may be from the local system or from a remote system. A single Backup Exec server is assigned the standalone Backup Exec server role. Each server runs the Backup Exec software and the services that control backup and restore operations of multiple clients. Each Backup Exec server maintains its own Backup Exec database, media catalogs, and device catalogs. Large environments may contain multiple Backup Exec servers responsible for backing up many different client systems. Backup Exec servers in large environments can run independently of each other if each server is managed separately.
Separate server management may not be an issue if there are only two or three Backup Exec servers, but it can become unwieldy as the environment grows. CASO ensures that everything throughout the network is protected by a single system that can be managed from one console [2] and also balances the workload across all Backup Exec servers in the environment.
The CASO configuration simplifies the management and monitoring of enterprise-level environments. Backup Exec does not have support for sending data streams from multiple parallel backup jobs to a single tape drive, which Veritas refers to as multiplexing.
Multiplexing can reduce backup times when backing up data from non-solid state sources containing millions of small or highly fragmented files, which require very large amounts of head-seeking using traditional mechanical hard drives, and which significantly slow down the backup process.
When only a single job is running, and the source server is constantly seeking at a high rate, the tape drive slows down or may stop, waiting for its write cache to be filled. These delays accessing data can cause the backup availability window to be exceeded, when multiple servers with slow transfer rates are being backed up one after the other to the tape device.
A workaround to this is to install temporary disk storage in the backup server to use as a cache for the backup process. This storage is split into hundreds of small gigabyte data blocks. Backups to the data blocks can be done in parallel, and each of the separate disk-based backup jobs are configured to duplicate and append to tape when completed.
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