February 17, 2009
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Symantec Endpoint Protection is a Network Performance Threat
I recently removed the Network Threat Protection component from the Symantec Endpoint Protection installation on all of the servers and desktops on a customer network. Here is a list of things that happened as a result: Backup throughput increased by 50% (using Symantec Backup Exec 11d) Exchange backups stopped failing due to the remote agent […]
August 13, 2008
Backup Exec 11D jobs fail after Exchange Server 2007 SP1 upgrade
After upgrading your Exchange Server 2007 system to Service Pack 1 you may experience Backup Exec job failures for your Exchange backups. The following error may appear in your Backup Exec job logs. Unable to complete the operation for the selected resource using the specified options. The following error was returned when opening the Exchange […]
March 5, 2008
Symantec Backup Exec 11d Double-backslash Bug
On a Symantec Backup Exec 11d server that is backing up Microsoft SQL Server databases you may encounter failed backups with an error: The path for this database is invalid because it contains extra backslash characters. You must remove the extra backslash characters before the database can be backed up. The solution provided by Symantec […]
August 14, 2007