Veritas 8.5 and internal HDD backup

[riley3]

We've been running Veritas 8.5 Backup Exec for a long time and never had a need to backup data to another hard drive on a different machine rather than the HP tape drive that it normally backs up to. For some reason I can't get Veritas to see the hard drives as a place to backup to. Can this be done with the version we have or is it tape only? Riley

 

[steveot]

Not with Backup Exec 8.5 there is not backup to disk option.

Backup Exec 9.x and 10.x offer a backup to disk option in the devices tab in backup exec

 

[riley3]

Thanks for the quick response. This helps a great deal. I thought I was going blind looking for the option. Riley

 

[riley3]

I was mistaken - it's 8.6. Does 8.6 work with files.

 

[steveot]

No

 

[8lackd0g]

Yes, it does. Open BackupExec, & click on the devices tab. The tree that you see on the left hand side will have something called "Backup-to-disk-folders". Right click it & select "New Backup Folder". It will default to a folder on your local disk (C:\). If you have any drives mapped, you can select them also.