• Symantec Backup Exec

Old versions can be downloaded from the following link. Backup Exec gives you simple, complete backup and recovery protection for your business—to cover all your data across physical, virtual, and multi-cloud environments. DOWNLOAD THE DATASHEET. Windows Server RS3 parity support, Exchange 2016 CU8, SQL 2014 SP2 CU9, SQL 2016 CU7, SQL 2017 CU2, SLES 12 SP3.

Just set up a new HP server (Windows 2012 standard) & installed Symantec Backup Exec 2014. The installation went fine, during which it asked me for my licence key which I keyed in from the card supplied with the CDs & it accepted it. Yet it's saying it's a trial version expiring in 60 days! There doesn't seem to be a way of typing in a licence key post-installation (as there was in earlier versions), only a 'Purchase a licence' options which is just a link to the Symantec store!

Symantec Backup Exec

Of more concern however is that it doesn't see my tape drive (a HP LTO-5 Ultrium 3000 SAS Tape Drive). When I run the Configure Storage wizard and select 'Tape Storage' and then 'Run the Hot-Swappable Device Wizard', it doesn't find any devices! Yet it's listed in Device Manager under Tape Drives as a 'Hewlett Packard LTO Ultrium-5 drive' and showing as 'working properly'.