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Backup Exec

Essential reading:

  • Understanding Media Sets - when you assign a media set to a backup job, it DOESN'T mean that media in the set will be used for the backup job. What it means is that after the job finishes, it will be moved to that media set. The Overwrite Protection Period, Append Period, and vault rules will then be applied to that media.
  • How Backup Exec Selects Media -

Resources:

Stuff I haven't looked at but could be handy:

Disaster Recovery shortcut list

For your convenience, VERITAS Technical Services has compiled this list of shortcuts to various Disaster Recovery articles. These articles will assist with most recovery issues that may arise as a result of the power outage, for instance, that affected much of the Northeastern United States.
Maybe not related to Backup Exec but should be an interesting read - Best Practices for Using Volume Shadow Copy Service with Exchange Server 2003

FAQ

Migrating Backup Exec

Probably use beutility.exe (in BE program directory) to copy jobs, policies and database - see beutility_en.chm. Be careful with this utility!!!