How do I setup backup exec 12.5 to backup to tape drives?

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did you setup your device and media ?

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no, i am moving from NTbackup to Symantec, so I am new to Backup Exec.

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Add the devices as jrojas1213 suggests, then follow my instructions to add backup job to the device.

Ive used backup exec for a while and have never had issues backing up system state and local drives in addition to exchange stores, @jrojas1213 do you have a reason not to combine them ?

not that you will necessarily have a problem but they often take a long time to do a full back up everything in one shot. it can take a very long time to back your entire server and my jobs have failed because you run into maintenance or other things that runs parallel to your job. you may certainly do so just schedule your jobs appropriately. it can take some time to figure out. plus when it comes to a restore it can take a long time. also helps with performance if you break into smaller chunks. it also not recommended by windows not to backup sys state and exchange at the time.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/820272

This article talks about ntbackup but I have seen this as a best practice using all backup applications.

http://searchexchange.techtarget.com/feature/Exchange-Server-2003-backup-and-recovery-best-practices-QA

as another example

Ahh yeah i get that all the time, system states and local backups always take an age - but i find the time taken is the same regardless i.e seperate system state + local, vs system state+local+info store. I like the idea of having everything in one job anyway for bare metal restores. Either way i agree, take your point, its a valid POV :)

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My Microsoft Information Store does not show up in my windows as a folder to backup.

do you have an exchange agent installed on the exchange server ? it can be installed from the bexec admin console.

and of course you need a license for this.

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So you advice not to run System State with an Exchange Backup, right? Run one backup for Exchange and then another backup for System State on the same tape device, right?

if you do have a license then you must have the option enabled which i might add does not make sense is to enable legacy mailbox support. I ran into the same reason and I remembers that I had disabled because i didnt think they reffed to 2003 as legacy and apparently they do

how rude of me not to tell you where that is located. go to tools->options-> Micorosft exchange on the jobs default column and look in the top box on the right.

that would be my advice but just some best practices that I have read. im a newbie as well and fell into backup exec and exchange 2003 and let me say what a pain backup exec is but It has the features that im looking for so I bare with the pain. backup exec will fail for many stupid reasons but read them carefully because it may not be a legitimate failure. keep asking questions here because in my opinion symantec KB articles are not the greatest. you can have an error code from a failure mean 20 different things and you have to sort through garbage to try to solve your problem.