Bag Yourself a Cheap Firewall  The Symantec FW100 and FW200(R) Appliances
Nov17

Bag Yourself a Cheap Firewall The Symantec FW100 and FW200(R) Appliances

KB ID 0000109  Problem OK to be honest, before I went to work for my current employer I didn’t even know Symantec made hardware firewall’s, and at the time of writing they no longer make “Low End” firewall’s and corporate support for them has all but ended. With this in mind there are a load of them currently being replaced with newer firewall’s and they are either getting thrown in cupboards...

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Backup Exec error: (0xE0008520): Device could not be snapped because it contains an active cache file
Nov17

Backup Exec error: (0xE0008520): Device could not be snapped because it contains an active cache file

KB ID 0000265  Problem You are trying to perform a snapshot using Backup Exec Open File Option and there is already a snapshot file there. Error: V-79-57344-34110 – AOFO: Initialization failure on: “C:”. Advanced Open File Option used: Symantec Volume Snapshot Provider (VSP). Snapshot provider error (0xE0008520): Device could not be snapped because it contains an active cache file. Check the Windows Event Viewer for...

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Backup Exec Error – Exchange Backup “The VSS Writer failed    0x800423f3”
Nov17

Backup Exec Error – Exchange Backup “The VSS Writer failed 0x800423f3”

KB ID 0000307  Problem Backup Exec Exchange Backup fails with the following error, Final error: 0xe000fed1 – A failure occurred querying the Writer status. Final error category: Resource ErrorsWriter Name: Exchange Server, Writer ID: {76FE1AC4-15F7-4BCD-987E-8E1ACB462FB7}, Last error: The VSS Writer failed, but the operation can be retried (0x800423f3), State: Failed during freeze   Solution The Microsoft VSS writer that...

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Backup Exec – Error “0xe0009585 – Unable to open a disk of the virtual machine”
Nov17

Backup Exec – Error “0xe0009585 – Unable to open a disk of the virtual machine”

KB ID 0000349  Problem Seen while using Backup Exec 2010 R2, while attempting to backup an Exchange 2010 server (on Windows server 2008 R2) in a VMware virtualised environment (using the VMware Backup Exec Agent). Click for Larger Image Errors Read Job Completion Status Completed status: Failed Final error: 0xe0009585 – Unable to open a disk of the virtual machine. Final error category: Resource Errors Errors Backup-...

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Backup Exec Job Fails With an E000FE30 Error
Nov17

Backup Exec Job Fails With an E000FE30 Error

KB ID 0000382  Problem A common error on Backup Exec version 12, essentially the media server is losing communication to the Backup Exec remote agent Note: Even if you only have one server it will still be running a remote agent! Errors: Final error: 0xe000fe30 – A communication failure has occurred Final error category: Server Errors V-79-57344-65072 – The Exchange Store service is not responding. Backup set canceled....

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Backup Exec Error – ” The backup-to-disk folder that was specified for this job must be on a local NTFS volume”
Nov17

Backup Exec Error – ” The backup-to-disk folder that was specified for this job must be on a local NTFS volume”

KB ID 0000574  Problem I got this when backing up to an HP RDX removable disk backup system. The drive WAS formatted as NTFS, but the job failed with the following error; Error: V-79-57344-4608 – 0xe0001200 – This operation requires a backup-to-disk folder on a local NTFS volume on the media server. Check the job log for details V-79-57344-4608 – The backup-to-disk folder that was specified for this job must be on a...

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