I have had several customers request a feature that will automatically remove backups staged to disk on a successful duplicate to tape. So basically backup goes to disk, duplicates to tape, then upon successful verify to tape removes the backup located on disk either immediatly or on schedule.

It would be nice if Backup Exec could have an option added to allow a bespoke command to be run after the VSS snapshot has been taken. Because Backup Exec doesn't currently support our VSS Writer, we have to use the Pre-backup command to take our application offline and the Post-backup command to put it back online again. The application only needs to be offline while the snapshot is taken, so it is currently unnecessarily offline for hours while the backup is taken.

I would like to suggest adding allowing the BE administrator the ability to name  a manual duplicate job in Backup Exec 2012.    This would be very helpful. Instead of having a generic name such as Duplicate Backup Sets xxxxx, it would be helpful to name the job so that at a glance a few days later one can quickly see the manual job by what ever naming convention used.   Thank you

I have been working with support for over a month over an issue of getting my catalog and vault SLP jobs prioritization over other jobs like duplications. It has been suggsted that we dedicated a one tape library drive decated just to those POLICIES/SLP/JOBS. We have a 2 drive tape library and sometime we have duplications that run into the daytime hours. This is a rare ocasion and to dedicate one of our tape drive just for 2 jobs does not make sensese and would only slow dow our duplication ...