Is anyone running Backup Exec with NSE ?

[ChelseaGirl]

I was wondering if anyone else was running BE with NSE as I would like to swop info and maybe we could help each other out

 

[kerk]

Yes, I am running BE with NSE. We also use Plasmon library with IBM drives. We take the backup process very seriously and do a lot of testing as well. However, we keep having a lot of problems. Tape stuck, Jobs aren’t complete, and of-the-wall issues. I have personally came to the conclusion of getting another hardware to replace the plason boxes. Of course that costs money, so before I do I would really like to communicate with the user community and see if we have common problems. So, do you use Plasmon hardware?

 

[ChelseaGirl]

Sorry, no - a Dell DLT130T (which is in fact a StorageTek 9730). I do have lots of problems though ! My main concern is NSE/BE creating duplicate media ID's when it marks a tape as bad media e.g. ABC123 will get an error and I will end up with two tape id's called ABC123 - one marked as bad media and the other as the tape was before the error.

I'm on version 8.5 with 6 servers running BE. I am seriously thinking of just using the NSE Master server to backup - without the other 5.

 

[kerk]

Ya, this is what we do.

We use one server with BE and use agents on all other 15 servers. So, the media server is one server only with a PLasmon 12.2

You might be better of using one media server with BE installed on it and forget about the NSE.

BE/NSE relationship is a flaky one.

Amar

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