Questions tagged [symantec]

An IT vendor (SYMC) providing many products like Symantec Endpoint Protection and Backup Exec.

Symantec is a large Information Technology vendor of products like Symantec Endpoint Protection and Backup Exec. Official company website is http://www.symantec.com/

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Problems installing Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 10.2 for Windows Vista

I'm having some problems installing Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 10.2 for Windows Vista. My client requires this exact version. The system on which I'm installing the software is recently purchased system (i.e. relatively "clean") that came…
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Backup Exec 2012 - Global exclusions by directory name?

I'm kind of a n00b with BE, so forgive me if this should be obvious. With other backup systems in the past, we have had a general policy of excluding any folder named DoNotBackup. This provides a convenient means of omitting large and/or temporary…
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How to use Symantec Backup Exec with S3 Amazon Storage?

Is there any proven efficient way on how to use Symantec Backup Exect for Windows Servers to use S3 as one of the Devices to backup to. Even if it means to use a plug-in to make it work. thanks!
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symantec endpoint protection service stuck at stopping

I am trying to uninstall Symantec Endpoint Protection, but I can't, the services stuck at stopping. Symantec Endpoint Protection is installed on Windows 2003 R2 server. Any suggestions on how to do it without rebooting the server? Thanks!
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Does Norton Antivirus 11 for Mac OS X pull signature updates as deltas?

I manage a Mac OS X (Leopard), laptop that has Norton Antivirus 11 installed. Whenever LiveUpdate executes, it proceeds to pull down a sig database of approx. 30 MB. Does anyone know why the updates aren't smaller ? I would've expected that…
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Strange Symantec Backup Exec behavior

On one of our main servers (a Poweredge R510 running Server 2008 R2 Standard 6.1.7601 SP1 Build 7601), we run Symantec Backup Exec 2010 R3 (Version 13.0 Rev. 5204, 64-bit). Each night, we have a scheduled task to back up our main shares/drives/etc…
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How to backup Backup Exec 2010 job setup, job history, catalogs etc

How do you make a backup of the job setup, job history, catalogs etc for Symantec Backup Exec 2010 Small Business Server edition and how do you restore them again afterwards? Do I just need to backup the SQL database or is there more involved? As a…
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Should I run an antivirus program inside Windows VMs?

We have several Windows VMs (all user editions, no server editions). We install virus scanners inside the VMs to protect them from users. The real-time file scanning kills I/O performance inside the VM though (I see disk access times spike to 2000ms…
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Back up server in separate domain

I currently have a backup server on one domain, say domain A. This backup server has Backup exec 11d installed on it, and is responsible for backing up numerous other servers in the same domain. I now have a server on another domain which requires…
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Image archiving on network folders

Our company uses Symantec Enterprise Vault to archive network folders and files, presumably to save on disk space. I can't see any other benefits. Our company is an architectural firm, and the problem our users face is locating particular images in…
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Symantec Endpoint Protection toggle of firewall rules by script

I'm running Symantec Endpoint Protection 11 and I'm hoping to be able to toggle a simple firewall rule with a script. If I can do it from the command line that would be preferred.
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How to backup Symantec Backup Exec's catalog?

I'm running Backup Exec 12.5 on Windows Server 2008 Standard x64. The Server is connected to a Dell Powervault 124T with a SCSI interface and i run backups for the server itself and other jobs that backup other servers across the LAN. Now backup…
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Make sense of SEP11 log entry

I have this log entry from SEP: 2011-04-05T10:52:37+02:00 SymantecServer SomeServer: SomePC,[SID: 23179] OS Attack: MS Windows Server Service RPC Handling CVE-2008-4250 detected. Traffic has been blocked from this application:…
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best way to backup Exchange 2003 using Symantec Backup Exec 12.5

I'm a newbie admin for an Exchange 2003 server running on Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard, all storage on the server is local, no DAS, SAN or NAS. The server is being backed up to magnetic tape using Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 running on Windows…
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Symantec Backup Exec Error 0xe0009413

I received the following error on a weekly full backup job on Symantec Backup Exec: Final error: 0xe0009413 - An error occurred during the snapshot cleanup, or could not locate a snapped volume from which to back up. I am backing up a Windows 2003…
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