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Unitrends SQL Server Agent may cause database checkpoints to become out of sync
SUMMARY Unitrends SQL Server Agent may cause database checkpoints to become out of sync ISSUE Purpose Ensure successful SQL backups through proper scheduling Description You may receive a warning backup with messages reading “Unitrends SQL Server Agent may cause database checkpoints to become out of sync.” Cause A SQL…
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Required credentials for VMware Application Aware backups
SUMMARY Required credentials for VMware Application Aware backups ISSUE Purpose Explain credentials required for running App Aware backups Description App Aware backups of VMWare clients allow hosted applications with VSS writers to be quiesced prior to taking the snapshot that is backed up. An account with elevated local…
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How do I create users and define their privileges?
SUMMARY This article provides the information on how to create Administrative users and define their privileges. ISSUE For instructions on adding administrative users and defining privileges, see To add a user in the Recovery-Series and UEB Administrator’s Guide. [Animated Tutorial] How to Create a User
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On a Hyper-V host machine, I would like to protect all the virtual machines on it as well as protect the Hyper-V server itself from a disaster. Can I and what licenses do I need for that?
SUMMARY On a Hyper-V host machine, I would like to protect all the virtual machines on it as well as protect the Hyper-V server itself from a disaster. Can I and what licenses do I need for that? ISSUE To protect all the virtual machines, you need to purchase a license for the number of sockets in the hypervisor. To…
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dedupNT or dedupDB? Use the HTML5 Web Administrative tor SSH CLI o find out what is in use
ISSUE How you can determine using the new HTML5 web administrative interface if the database is relying on dedupNT or dedupDB RESOLUTION If the result is dedupNT=1, then the system is using dedupNT. Do not upgrade beyond 9.1.1 until you have contacted Support and they have helped you migrate out of dedupNT into dedupDB…
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Appliance's /usr/bp /var or '/' partitions are full
ISSUE Use an SSH client such as PuTTY to access the Unitrends system at the command line level. Note: Ensure you have the OS password to access the Unitrends system’s command line. The OS password may differ from the password used to access the User Interface. # df -hFilesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on/dev/md3 15G…
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[Animated Tutorial] How to License a Unitrends Backup Appliance
SUMMARY How to use your activation code to add a license to your appliance ISSUE You have a new deployment or an appliance which needs to have its license applied TASKS 1. Navigate to Configure > Appliances 2. Select your appliance and click Edit 3. Click on the License tab 4. Click Update, this should open a new tab, if…
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How to turn off integrity check of exchange backup files for Exchange 2003, 2007, 2010 and 2013
SUMMARY How to turn off integrity check of exchange backup files for Exchange 2003, 2007, 2010 and 2013. ISSUE Purpose How to turn off integrity check of exchange backup files for Exchange 2003, 2007, 2010 and 2013. Description For all versions of Exchange, the Eseutil.exe utility is used to perform a checksum of backup…
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Can I backup and restore active directory on Windows?
SUMMARY This article provides documentation on how to backup and restore your active directory with Unitrends. ISSUE Yes, you can backup and restore active directory on Windows with Unitrends. For details, see Active Directory backup and restore on Windows Server in the Recovery-Series and UEB Administrator's Guide.
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Scheduled SQL backups fail
SUMMARY Scheduled SQL backups fail ISSUE SQL backups will fail if the Microsoft SQL Browser service isn’t running RESOLUTION On your SQL server: * Open Services * Start the Microsoft SQL Browser service NOTES For more detailed information on backup failures and performance issues see Unitrends KB 5062 - Backup Failures and…