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Data recovery
Kristen had an upsetting moment when she plugged in the XD card from the camera and saw the following It looked like all the photos that she had taken today were corrupt and unreadable (and translated...
View ArticleBackup exec jobs won’t run but go to queued.
Discovered today (after a lot of hassles) that Backup Exec may have a problem where backups to a disk folder does not work and ends up in a queued status. Eventually discovered that if you drag the...
View ArticleBack at last!
We’re back! My site was closed sometime last week as the server it was hosted on was having resource issues. I was offered a move to a new server and unfortunately the flat web pages got moved across...
View ArticleImage ghosting woe’s
I’ve been trying to backup the main pc at home as it’s getting really really slow for a 1 year old pc. Kristen blames it on all the stuff I keep installing on it which is probably true. The weird thing...
View Articlecure to 0x800423f4 with ntbackup failing
One of our clients has been having issues with Volume Shadow Copy and SQL (MSDE) causing the backup to fail with the error 0x800423f4. By following the script at TazNetworks it looks like the backup...
View Article0xe00084af failure in symantec backup exec caused by wsus 3 installation
Fixed! One of my servers has been failing to backup with the error “0xe00084af The directory or file was not found, or could not be accessed. Final error category: Job Errors. For additional...
View ArticleRemoving an Ultrium tape
I didn’t know that you can only eject an ultrium tape drive when it is completely rewound. Detailed instructions from HP on removing an Ultrium drive are provided. Our Dell technician didn’t know this...
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Backups may take some time to complete….
I needed to do a restore of some voicemails on a server and the calculations on how long it was going to take were slightly off as you can see from this screenshot – it actually got as far as 150 days...
View ArticleBackupExec 12 fails to LiveUpdate on Windows 2008
When trying to run LiveUpdate from within BackupExec v12 running on Windows 2008 you may get the error message “To receive updates, Backup Exec must be registered with LiveUpdate. To automatically...
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Fixed –“The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect"...
Apparently, according to Microsoft KB Article 2009365 this issue occurs when a previously hard drive (or the only previously defined) hard drive has been removed from the server and a new drive is...
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Data recovery
Kristen had an upsetting moment when she plugged in the XD card from the camera and saw the following It looked like all the photos that she had taken today were corrupt and unreadable (and translated...
View ArticleBackup exec jobs won’t run but go to queued.
Discovered today (after a lot of hassles) that Backup Exec may have a problem where backups to a disk folder does not work and ends up in a queued status. Eventually discovered that if you drag the...
View ArticleBack at last!
We’re back! My site was closed sometime last week as the server it was hosted on was having resource issues. I was offered a move to a new server and unfortunately the flat web pages got moved across...
View ArticleImage ghosting woe’s
I’ve been trying to backup the main pc at home as it’s getting really really slow for a 1 year old pc. Kristen blames it on all the stuff I keep installing on it which is probably true. The weird thing...
View Articlecure to 0x800423f4 with ntbackup failing
One of our clients has been having issues with Volume Shadow Copy and SQL (MSDE) causing the backup to fail with the error 0x800423f4. By following the script at TazNetworks it looks like the backup...
View Article0xe00084af failure in symantec backup exec caused by wsus 3 installation
Fixed! One of my servers has been failing to backup with the error “0xe00084af The directory or file was not found, or could not be accessed. Final error category: Job Errors. For additional...
View ArticleRemoving an Ultrium tape
I didn’t know that you can only eject an ultrium tape drive when it is completely rewound. Detailed instructions from HP on removing an Ultrium drive are provided. Our Dell technician didn’t know this...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Backups may take some time to complete….
I needed to do a restore of some voicemails on a server and the calculations on how long it was going to take were slightly off as you can see from this screenshot – it actually got as far as 150 days...
View ArticleBackupExec 12 fails to LiveUpdate on Windows 2008
When trying to run LiveUpdate from within BackupExec v12 running on Windows 2008 you may get the error message “To receive updates, Backup Exec must be registered with LiveUpdate. To automatically...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Fixed –“The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect"...
Apparently, according to Microsoft KB Article 2009365 this issue occurs when a previously hard drive (or the only previously defined) hard drive has been removed from the server and a new drive is...
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