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Remote Agent for Windows Servers is what you want. http://www.BackupExecFAQ.com

LTO is indeed preferable to DAT, but there's a cost involved. A cheaper option would be to allow jobs to span tapes, and/or modify your backup schedule so you're not doing full backups where differentials would do. http://www.BackupExecFAQ.com

System State contains Active Directory and SYSVOL data (on domain controllers), Certificate Services (where installed), IIS (where installed), the registry, system files which you can't otherwise backup, and some other bits. If a server requires disaster recovery, you can reinstall Windows...

Don't bother doing mailbox backups - just do backups of the Information Store. See http://www.backupexecfaq.com/articles/using/backing-up-exchange-mailboxes.html If you've added the Exchange Agent license key to your media server, you should see the Information Store appear in your selection...

The thing that confuses me is how do these 2 jobs know they belong to the same data? Example: THe full job runs on Friday, the Monday comes and the Differential Job runs...how does the DIfferential job know to look at the full job? I didnt set it up in backup exec to know about the full job."...

When you relabel a tape (using BE) it overwrites the tape contents, so it's not a good idea to do this after the backup! I'd be inclined to either barcode everything and just make sure you don't duplicate them, or remove the barcode before BE sees the tape, label the media, then backup to it...

No, this can't be done. If it could, then the logical label on any media wouldn't match the physical label! http://www.BackupExecFAQ.com

BE can only use locally-attached devices (unless you use the San Shared Storage Option). If you've bought the SBS version of BE you can only install it on the SBS server. http://www.BackupExecFAQ.com

It will prompt you to restart the server. It will probably be fine without a restart (the Hotfix install stops and restarts the BE services), but you can reboot it as time allows. http://www.BackupExecFAQ.com

In order to clear the logs you need to be doing a Full type backup, and you need to be backing up the Microsoft Information Store (which contains both the Mailbox store and public folder store) http://www.BackupExecFAQ.com

The archive job works by copying the files selected in the job to the backup media, then when the copy has finished, it deletes the original files. One point to note is that the delete is done is the context of the logon account, so you need to make sure that user has the permissions to delete...

wouldnt having 450 B2D files make restoring alot harder?" Not necessarily. Would having 1 450GB file make restoring any easier? ;) http://www.BackupExecFAQ.com

The Administrator's Guide can be found at http://entsupport.symantec.com/carveout_PID_15047_view_CL.htm To cancel the job, simply view it in the Job Monitor view, then right click it and select Cancel. http://www.BackupExecFAQ.com

I'd just stick with 1GB B2D files - BE will automatically create new ones as it needs them. Then set an Overwrite Protection Period of however long you want to keep data for. http://www.BackupExecFAQ.com

Have a look at http://www.backupexecfaq.com/articles/problems/warning-triangle-on-server-in-selection-list.html http://www.BackupExecFAQ.com