Fix Live Update Backupexec 2010

This fixes the issue of Symantec's Live update not recognizing that there are any products to be updated and throwing the following error message:

LU1805: LiveUpdate was unable to find any products to Update


Fix: Go to your Symantec's Backup Exec Program folder location and run the following executable:



BEUpdateOps.exe

You now should get a notification saying that Backup Exec was successfully registered with Live update and be able to run it to get any available updates.

Many thanks to the solution poster found here:
http://www.sudonym.com/233/unable-to-run-live-update-in-backup-exec-2010

Span BackupExec jobs to use mutiple drives

BackupExec Enterprise does not have the capability/feature to allow spanning any backup jobs to use multiple backup drives as in auto libaries.

To work around that, split your backup jobs into multiple smaller jobs (can be scheduled to run at the same time) and assign each of them to a different tape drive out of your autoloader.

BackupExec Selection List via SQL

Execute the following SQL query to return all items in all selection list.

SELECT [ScriptName],[ScriptDescription],[DeviceSelectionName],[PathName],[FileName] FROM [BEDB].[dbo].[vwScriptPropertiesBackup]


This query can be trimmed down using the where clause.