I like to see default of Local but option of remote. Sometimes there is interesting stuff or more info.Ī number of interesting things here. I do like to use Custom Installation when I can as I like to see options. Actually, I read none of it – does anyone?! Once we start – by pressing Backup Exec as we see above we will see the following where Symantec is verifying the install files – nice to see actually.Īfter this completes we see the start of the wizard.Īnd as you might expect, I read and understand the whole EULA and continue. We start at browser.exe screen where we started before. I think it worth keeping the results just in case you need to talk to support at some point. Plus I can install this later if necessary. Pretty handy but I am not doing DR so no big deal.
Don’t install to a drive that has dedupe or ReFS enabled.
I am using BE 2014 SP1 as part of this article.
I will also do another article on how to backup CIFS shares using Backup Exec but I thought we should get Backup Exec working first. Questions and comments are always welcome. As always there will be lots of pictures and suggestions on how to do it best. However they have tied things together very nicely so it doesn’t necessarily show its age.
This is software that has been around a very long time and it shows in the depth of its features. In this article I am going to help you install, configure and test Backup Exec.