Some articles are more technical in nature. This article skips the technicalities, and gives you the simple hints that should make your Backup Exec experience smoother.
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Category: Real World
Crash during disaster recovery
It is possible during a disaster recovery that the system being recovered may crash (blue screen) during the restore of the system files component of system state. Upon Windows startup, the error "System error: Lsass.exe. When trying to update a password the return status indicates that the value provided as the current password is not correct." was displayed, before the system rebooted itself.
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How to speed up restores
Restoring data with Backup Exec is (generally) easy. However in some circumstances the way you build your selection lists can drastically affect the amoount of time the restore takes.
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Backing up DFS data
Backing up the file/folder structure on a DFS share doesn’t work, and backing up DFS through the shadow copy components is painfully slow, so I directly backup the DFS share.