Category: Storage

Daylight Saving Time Issue in Backup Exec 2010


Symantec Backup Exec 2010 has a DST (Daylight Saving Time) issue – the first run of every scheduled jobs that are with backup time window settings will miss due to ‘The job was scheduled to run, but the availability window closed before the job could start. There may not have been any destination devices available … Continue reading Daylight Saving Time Issue in Backup Exec 2010 →

ESXi 5.0 Command: Change Storage Path Selection


1) Run ‘esxcli storage nmp device list | grep ^naa.’ to list the current connected storages. 2) Run ‘esxcli storage nmp device set –d <DEVICE_ ID> –P <PSP_NAME>’ to change the path selection policy. e.g. esxcli storage nmp device set -d naa.60050768028081713c0000000000003a  -P VMW_PSP_RR 3) Additionally, you can run ‘esxcli storage nmp satp list’ to … Continue reading ESXi 5.0 Command: Change Storage Path Selection →

TSM 6.3: Backup and Restore Exchange Part 2


Automate the Exchange backup jobs: Creating Weekly Exchange Full Backup and Daily Exchange Incremental Backup. 1) Login into the TSM_Exchange server, and create the following two files. C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\TDPExchange\excfull.cmd @ECHO OFF set exc_dir="C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\TDPExchange" cd /d %exc_dir% rem ================================================================== echo Current date is: >> excfull.log date /t < NUL >> excfull.log echo Current time is: … Continue reading TSM 6.3: Backup and Restore Exchange Part 2 →