You may be surprised at the average success rate for Backup Exec 2010-2012 across a common enterprise environment. It is entirely normal to look at failures and state "it's working 50% of the time, we should be happy". Their own support team would look at that sort of log and say things like "you seem to be having really good luck with our product".
Since moving almost all servers I use to VM's, my backup restore success rate is very high. We generally take a VHD image at least once a week, and then daily processes (maybe even hourly for databases) will run inside the OS itself.
No new information in the article itself. But articles in The Register usually have some good comments. E.g. this article there has 141 of them, at least some of which are good. :)
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[ 12.0 ms ] story [ 219 ms ] threadArticles like these crop up periodically on HN. They're very useful because they reiterate the point about the necessity of testing the backups.
Since moving almost all servers I use to VM's, my backup restore success rate is very high. We generally take a VHD image at least once a week, and then daily processes (maybe even hourly for databases) will run inside the OS itself.