Posts Tagged Backup

Symantec Backup Exec Error 0xe00084af (All Versions)

I have been tearing my hair out for a couple of weeks with this error and Symantec wasn’t of any help. We had this error with version 12.5 of Symantec Backup Exec and it started on a server apparently out of the blue after having no issues for over 2 years.

Out of ideas and with no help from Symantec, we upgraded to version 2010 hoping that this would fix the error. No go. The backups still failed. We were back to square one. Read the rest of this entry »

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Script to Hot Backup VMWare ESX Virtual Machines

I was searching for the best way to implement vmware-cmd to snapshot live VMs and then rsync them to another location of my choice and look what I found!

There is a free script called ghettoVCB.sh that does the trick.

The script allows you to backup live virtual machines and also maintains only a selected number of snapshots that you would like to keep. Check it out!

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How to Backup and Restore Active Directory

There are many documents written about backing up Active Directory but I didn’t find enough documentation that would help us restore Active Directory. So here is a guide aimed to provide insights into correctly backing up and restoring Active Directory.

Here is my mini how to – I have tried to keep it as simple as possible:

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