

- #SYMANTEC BACKUP EXEC 2014 COMPLETE ACTIVE DIRECTORY RESTORE UPDATE#
- #SYMANTEC BACKUP EXEC 2014 COMPLETE ACTIVE DIRECTORY RESTORE PATCH#
- #SYMANTEC BACKUP EXEC 2014 COMPLETE ACTIVE DIRECTORY RESTORE FULL#
Receiving the same email again and again.

I thought when 2014 was released (and worked on day 1) that it was a positive change. Not sure when Symantec lost their way and never found the path back, but at this point I'm weary of waiting for that to happen.

While I am stuck with this product for now, we are still actively looking for an alternative once our new budget year is here. That would have at least provided a workaround situation.Īt this point, to back up any AD servers, I essentially have to have two job types: the normal GRT file-enabled backup of the VM, and then another classic agent-based backup that includes the System State.
#SYMANTEC BACKUP EXEC 2014 COMPLETE ACTIVE DIRECTORY RESTORE PATCH#
Based on the track record the last few years with the 2012 product and now 2014, I'm unclear why they didn't at least provide a way to roll back to a previous patch level.

And why Symantec doesn't allow rolling back from their hotfixes is also beyond me. What gets me is that this is obviously a regression introduced with that hotfix. I got my ticket escalated 2 weeks ago, after having the ticket open for 3+ weeks prior to that, and thus far there is no solution.
#SYMANTEC BACKUP EXEC 2014 COMPLETE ACTIVE DIRECTORY RESTORE UPDATE#
VMware vSphere 5.1 accessed via vCenter, update 2
#SYMANTEC BACKUP EXEC 2014 COMPLETE ACTIVE DIRECTORY RESTORE FULL#
If push comes to shove I will just revert to doing straight VM backups with dedupe, and if AD gets messed up, I will just restore to last full + incrementals.īackup Exec 2014 V-Ray Edition, hotfix 218257 installed So at this point, I'm a bit fed up with Symantec's support and am hoping someone else is seeing this and has been able to solve it. I have had a ticket with Symantec open for 3+ weeks now, we no engineer calling me back. As soon as hotfix 218257 is installed, all the incrementals complete, but now with the above exception, every time they are run. I know without a doubt it is because of this hotfix, as I have taken a completely clean lab environment and installed base Backup Exec 2014, and running a GRT AD full and incremental backup completes 100% of the time. If I uncheck Active Directory GRT, no issues.both full and incrementals will run without issue, no exceptions or failures. As soon as an incremental runs, this happens 100% of the time. Therefore you will be unable to perform GRT-enabled restores of Microsoft Active Directory data from this backup." "V-79-57344-38747 - Backup Exec was unable to prepare Microsoft Active Directory resources for Granular Recovery Technology (GRT) operations. After application of this hotfix through LiveUpdate, any/all incremental backup jobs of virtual machines acting as active directory domain controllers always end with exceptions with a resulting:
