You need to send off several large files. These may be the parts of a very a large zip file or multiple individual files. The receiver tried to open or merge the files together and get a bad data error message. How…
Password Managers
There is a good chance that you have more than 10 accounts that requires user id and password. Personal web mail, Facebook, Twitter, corporate network account, HR portal, online forums etc. How do you keep track of the passwords?
Nokia E71 and a computerless sync Part Duex
Syncing E71 using Mail for Exchange 3.0
Playing with Netbackup II
Some important Netbackup terminology that you should know but are buried deep in the PDF docs. You need to settle on the method of backup before committing to buy the licenses.
Playing with Netbackup I
I was passed a job to get Netbackup 6.5 to do a SAN-based backup. There are three ways to perform a backup of server/s data from a dedicated server, LAN, backup LAN and lastly SAN.
Taking a long time view Veritas job history
If the Symantec Backup Exec job history takes a long to load and when it does, it is blanked. This usually means the database is too large and needs to be compacted. Use the commands at your own risk.
Symantec Endpoint Protection
Also known as Corporate Edition version 11 + Sygate firewall. This is really different product from Symantec Corporate Edition ver 10. It looks more like a McAfee ePO Orchestra. There are groups for clients and packages to go with the…
Symantec Backup Exec 11d Oracle Agent is broken
I was installing Symantec Backup Exec 11d to back up a bunch of servers with Oracle database. After several fruitless sessions to get the Oracle Agent to work, I logged a call to Symantec Support.
Moving backup to disk folders for Backup Exec 11d
I had a situation that required me to change the IP address of the NAS for the Backup to disk folders. Now the location of the folders cannot be changed in the properties. Symantec recommends to create a new location…
Backing up VMware ESX 3.02 using Symantec 11d
This looks simple from the start. Install a Symantec Backup Exec 11d media server, a Remote Agent for Linux and Unix Servers (RALUS) inside the ESX server. Run a backup job and it is done! And then some.