Veritas Backup Exec - help setting up properly

feenster99 · 20 Nov 2006 at 19:19

Hi all,
I have been trying to setup Veritas Backup Exec 10 today, to backup some shared data onto an Iomega REV drive. The server is Windows 2000 SBS, with Veritas 10 for SBS installed.

I setup the REV drive as a Removable Backup-to-Disk folder, and setup the backup job to run. However, when I run it, the backup is split into multiple 4GB files. I checked the REV device in the "Devices" list of Veritas, and made sure it said it could store 90GB per disk, and to keep 1 backup per disk. No joy however. Any ideas why this would be happening, or what to check first?

Secondly, can Veritas back data up as the raw files in their respective folders, instead of .bkf files? This would make the retrieval of data far easier for the user.

Cheers,
Matt

oddjob62 · 20 Nov 2006 at 19:33

feenster99 said:
Hi all,
I have been trying to setup Veritas Backup Exec 10 today, to backup some shared data onto an Iomega REV drive. The server is Windows 2000 SBS, with Veritas 10 for SBS installed.

I setup the REV drive as a Removable Backup-to-Disk folder, and setup the backup job to run. However, when I run it, the backup is split into multiple 4GB files. I checked the REV device in the "Devices" list of Veritas, and made sure it said it could store 90GB per disk, and to keep 1 backup per disk. No joy however. Any ideas why this would be happening, or what to check first?

Secondly, can Veritas back data up as the raw files in their respective folders, instead of .bkf files? This would make the retrieval of data far easier for the user.

Cheers,
Matt

If you go to the properties of the removable storage you created, you can change the size that BE splits the bkf file. (Assuming the REV drive is formatted as NTFS)

Secondly... no, just use xcopy or robocopy in a batch file if you want that.

marin · 20 Nov 2006 at 20:33

Never had much luck with Iomega Rev drive's with SBS, they seem to disconnect or just fail very often, I now use WD MyBook range which seem to be a much better product.

feenster99 · 20 Nov 2006 at 22:52

oddjob62 said:
If you go to the properties of the removable storage you created, you can change the size that BE splits the bkf file. (Assuming the REV drive is formatted as NTFS)

Secondly... no, just use xcopy or robocopy in a batch file if you want that.

Well, the default filesystem is REVFS or something similar I think. I did change the settings for the "split at xx MB" - perhaps it didn't save the setting properly :S Will check tomorrow.

No worries about the 2nd point, would just have been nice. No bother

Matt