VCB and Backup Exec 11D

[Eire09]

I'm new to VCB & Backup Exec so I'd appreciate a couple of pointers if possible.

Question 1 - Config.js Setup

I've added the following settings to the config.js & left the rest of this config.js file as default

// BACKUPROOT="E:\mnt";

//USERNAME="VCAdministrator";

//PASSWORD="VCAdminPasseord";

// HOST="vm1.fqdn.com";

Question 2

Where do I add backup jobs? For example if I want to backup multiple VM's & do full backups or file/directory backups. Can I do this within the Config.js or in Pre-backup.bat?

Thanks in advance,

Peter

[Gerrit_Lehr]

First, you need to remove the // to uncomment the settings. Usually you would create a backup job within Backup Exec and then use VCB in pre- and post-job scripts to mount and unmount the VM.

Kind Regards,

Gerrit Lehr

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[Eire09]

Hi Gerrit,

Thanks for your reply. I uncommented the settings as you suggested.

I'm still having a problem with Backup Exec & I'm getting an error message as shown in the attached screen shot

I also did the following in Backup Exec

1. Created a New Job called FullVMBackup

2. Under Settings/General setup a backup method - Full - Using Modified TIme

3. Setup Pre/Post Commands

- Pre Command "c:\program files\vmware\vmware Consolidated Backup Framework\backupexec\pre-backup.bat" FullVMBackup test11.DomainName.com

- Post Command "c:\program files\vmware\vmware Consolidated Backup Framework\backupexec\post-backup.bat" FullVMBackup

4. Navigated in CMD to C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Consolidated Backup Framework\Backupexec\ and ran pre-backup.bat FullVMBackup test11.DomainName.com (FullVMBackup is the name of the test job & Test11 is a server in my domain)

After running the Pre-Backup the drive did not seem to mount. Have you come across this before?

Thanks in advance,

PM