Tall_Paul

We used Backup Exec only for our physicals and because VEEAM didn't output to tape, but it got kicked into touch when I upgraded our Backup Server to Storage Server 2012 and found BE media server couldn't be installed onto it. I now just use USB connected hard drives and Windows backup on our few remaining physicals and VEEAM for everything else. Not sure Symantec can recover from this to be honest.

Answer 1 - Yes, it's very easy to restore to an external location. Answer 2 - Not sure about that one. I do differentials on the whole server rather than individual folders. Google will probably be your friend here.

You can't do it retrospectively but you can turn on folder auditing for the future. See here for Server 2008 example.

I use the following cmd file through SCCM. Uninstalls the old version 6 copies we have, and installs 7u45 in it's place. I had to change the extensions of the deployment files as my DP kept erroring when, I'm guessing, it tried to distribute the .config file. @echo OFF setlocal ENABLEEXTENSIONS taskkill /F /IM iexplore.exe taskkill /F /IM javaw.exe taskkill /F /IM jqs.exe taskkill /F /IM jusched.exe set msi=jre1.7.0_45.msi ::Install JRE x86 msiexec.exe /i %~dp0%msi% /quiet /norestart IEXPLORER=1 ::Disable autoupdating reg delete “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run” /v SunJavaUpdateSched /f reg add “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\JavaSoft\Java Update\Policy” /v EnableJavaUpdate /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f ::Put on the Java config files to disable the expiration autocheck mkdir %SystemRoot%\Sun\Java\Deployment copy %YOUR SERVER DETAILS%\deploymentconfig.txt %SystemRoot%\Sun\Java\Deployment\deployment.config /y copy %YOUR SERVER DETAILS%\deploymentproperties.txt %SystemRoot%\Sun\Java\Deployment\deployment.properties /y ::Finally uninstall old Java MsiExec.exe /X{26A24AE4-039D-4CA4-87B4-2F83216011FF} /q /norestart MsiExec.exe /X{26A24AE4-039D-4CA4-87B4-2F83216024FF} /q /norestart ::exit and return success exit 0

I have hard quotas for students of 1GB each. This is becoming a problem as we're running a photography GCSE but, seeing as they want a ridiculous amount of space, I'm going to recommend Google Drive or Skydrive for this. I would love to have hard quotas for my teachers and admin staff too, but that's a no-no at present. I've found if you don't have quotas, people just use the network as a dumping group. Treesize Pro is a must to find and identify the culprits (some staff have got in a lot of trouble over what they've copied onto the network).

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Count me in!!

I personally think it's update related. My 2012 file server has only the File and Storage Services role installed and hasn't had any updates applied since August (I know, I know!) and has never suffered from this problem.

Very interesting thread. We will be moving to a one-to-one device scenario with a planned implementation date for Year 7 (we're secondary) of September 2014 so timescales are tight! This type of information is exactly what we need and will be evaluating.

Out of interest, for those of you it is happening to is this on servers that you built from scratch and then migrated your files over to or servers that you upgraded to 2012 (for example, upgrading a 2008 R2 to 2012 box)? My 2012 file server is one I built from scratch then migrated everything from my old 2003 server.

8.1 at home but still on 7 here. Can't deploy anything beyond 7 until I upgrade SCCM (which is a real problem given my current workload).

I've just set this up. IIRC they don't recommend reverse incremental if you're backing up to tape, just if you're backing up to another disk (like a USB 3 drive for example). VEEAM tape backup is a bit different in that there are no monthly backups, so you'll have to manage that yourself, but it works very well and is pretty easy. We do a full backup on Friday\Saturday and incrementals Monday-Thursday. The tape jobs are set to run straight after the backup to disk jobs. The only problem I've found is a couple of times the tape job hasn't picked up the backup job (it says no data present or something similar). However, running the job the following morning is fine (and maybe it's a bug that SP2 addresses). Overall though I'm very happy. Backup Exec has now been kicked into touch!

How odd! I have a 2012 file server too, but no problems as yet (touches anything wooden in immediate vicinity). I shall be keeping a very close eye on this thread!

Sounds like pretty much the same spec as mine. Enjoy!

I have an Alienware 17 that I bought about three weeks ago. Love it!! As others have said if you want to regularly upgrade components each year then a laptop probably isn't the best buy. However, given the (almost three year old) XPS 17 I had before happily ran everything I threw at it I can't see any issues for the foreseeable future.

Raise it as a problem with VEEAM. Excellent support IMHO.

Disabled here too.

I'd be interested in this too. We extended the warranty on our old P2000 to give us some breathing space before we migrated to our new SAN. IIRC HP stop warranty coverage after a certain period on some products (like SANS).

We're pretty much all HP here. They have been excellent but (in common with other brands) the build quality of the new models is nothing like the older models we have (which are built like tanks).

We use Fronter here. Staff grumbled about it a lot at the start (two years ago), but SMT essentially forced their hand and I have to say it does not get very heavy usage now.

I've stopped playing it due to the Freemium crappo model. To advance to Level 3 requires a ridiculous amount of stars. If they'd charged a few quid for it then I'd probably still be playing it.

Three: IT Manager (me) Technician Junior Technician We will shortly be appointing a Deputy IT Manager and the idea will be to split the department into servers\networks (me and my Deputy) and desktops (my two technicians).

2 laptops IPhone IPad HTC One X Nexus 7 Revo Heritage Biggest problem I've found is routers frying after two to three years as they don't have sufficient cooling in domestic versions.

Very interesting stuff. When our school was built (before my time) the SLT mandated that the majority of devices would be wireless (for convenience, hem, hem). As a result we have around 1200 wireless clients and logon times compared with the few wired machines we have always been one of the biggest issues.

I've used VEEAM for about two years now and can only echo the above. It's fantastic, and Symantec have really dropped the ball with BE in comparison. A limitation of the latest one is it is x64 only (so we have had to replace our aging x86 backup server, which was no bad thing). I've only read the manual on v7, but the tape support looked a bit sparse compared with BE 2010 (for example, I didn't see anything about inventorying or creating scratch media). I'll know more when I've installed and got v7 running.