Hay Ryan,
What about using a CASO?
This will allow you to use one instance of backup exec and then you'll see
all the jobs, all the logs, all the media libraries and everything else in
the one application. I also used a client to then connect to that CASO
remotely so I didn't need to remote onto the server.
I'm done with backup exec now fortunately. We've moved onto an enterprise
level product called Data protector. It's almost even more inaccessible
and instead of donig everything in one application, you've applications
for the SAN, the EML, the VLS and then you've also a back end console for
the data protecter UI as well because not all the functionality is
available in the GUI.
Fun times.
Even funnier because I no longer have to do it full time.
Shout if you have any questions I can help with.
Regards
Darragh Ó Héiligh
Fujitsu
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From: Ryan Shugart
To: Blind sysadmins list
Date: 16/06/2010 00:32
Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] let's talk Backup Exec
Sent by: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org
Hey everyone:
I just got a promotion at work, and with the goodness of
a promotion comes more responsibilities. I'm now in charge of our backup
infrastructure. We run Backup Exec 12.5, and have 16 or so media servers
in various branch offices around the world. While Backup Exec used to be
very accessible, over the last two versions accessibility seems to have
gone into something of a decline, I already use scripts just to read the
main table of jobs, and might need more just to get around the scheduling
window so I can actually schedule a job. I'd consider the rest of the
program accessible but clunky, tabbing doesn't always bring you where you
think it will, on some screens tab order seems to be dynamic. Backup Exec
also has an odd way of bringing up alert windows and grabbing your focus,
even when you tell it specifically not to. While clunkyness is OK on one
server, when you have fifteen individual servers to manage and no way to
do it in a centralized fashion clunkyness is less
acceptable. This is also less than a quarter of my new responsibilities
as well. The current admin has the remote desktop console setup with all
the Backup Exec servers in his favorites, stays logged into each server
with a Backup Exec window open, and flicks from screen to screen and can
easily glance at the output from each job. For us screen reader users,
that doesn't work well. I've already got e-mail alerts set up and am
using some Outlook rules to sort failure jobs out from successes, but was
wondering if there's anything else I can be doing? I'd think people in
really large environments with hundreds of media servers aren't logging
into each server on a daily basis, so there has to be better ways to
handle this. Any ideas?
Thanks.
Ryan
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