Monday, September 29, 2014

Backup Exec 2012 jobs stuck on "Queued"




One of the reasons is not enough space on destination disk.
You can change the backup destination by following Below procedure:

Right click and cancel the job .



Right click and edit the job.



Click on storage and select one of storage pools which has enough free space.



Click on Ok.
Re-run the job.

Sunday, September 14, 2014

How to change Administrator password in Vcenter 5.5

1.       Log into Vsphere web client.

2.       Click on “Administration”.



3.       Click on “Users and Groups” .



4.       Right click on “Administrator” and click “Edit User”.



5.       Type you password in the box and click on “OK”.



Wednesday, September 3, 2014




Symantec backup exec 2014 remote agent uninstallation fails
(Manual uninstall )




If uninstallation of Symantec backup exec remote agent 2014 fails, you can do it manually as below:

Map the Symantec backup exec installation server folder on the machine which agent was installed.



Run “uninstallaaofox64” from mapped drive :



stop all Symantec backup exec services


 

Open registry editor and delete this keys and their sub keys:

1.       HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{856D9205-4AA3-ADD2-CE6EFF23ED9E}




2.       HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Remote Agent for Windows Servers




3.       HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Symantec\Backup Exec For Windows







BY DEFUALT ONLY BACKUP OPERATORS HAVE ACCESS TO THIS KEY AND ITS SUB KEYS, IF YOU GET ERROR WHILE DELETING THIS KEYS FIRST TKE OWNERSHIP AND THEN GIVE YOUR USER FULL CONTROL TO EACH SUB KEY, NOW TRY TO DELETE.








4.       HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432node\Symantec\Backup Exec For Windows (64-bit machines only)



5.       HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\BackupExecAgentAccelerator







6.       HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\bedgb




7.       HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\PDVFSService




8.       HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\PDVSNP





9.       HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\PDVFSDriver



Delete the remote agent installation directory:
%PROGRAMFILES%\Symantec


Reboot the machine.