SYMANTEC BACKUP EXEC FOR WINDOWS SERVERS
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Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 for Windows Servers
Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 delivers market-leading backup and recovery
protection from server to desktop, providing complete data protection
for the latest Windows Server 2008 environments and support for VMware
and Microsoft Hyper-V virtual systems. With granular recovery features
and continuous data protection for critical Microsoft applications,
Symantec Backup Exec helps ensure that business-critical data is
efficiently protected and can be quickly recovered—down to an
individual email or document.
Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 also delivers innovative multiproduct
integration with Symantec Enterprise Vault, Symantec ThreatCon security
alert system, and the new Symantec Online Storage¹ to simplify
andenhance a company’s ability to secure, back up, and archive critical
data. With innovative integration and comprehensive data protection for
physical and virtual environments, Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 is the
gold standard in Windows data protection.
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North America offering only
Key Benefits
Delivers market-leading Windows data protection to more than 1.5 million customers globally
- Optimized data protection through one console for physical and virtual systems, including VMware and Hyper-V virtual systems
- Microsoft certified backup and recovery for the entire
Windows Server 2008 portfolio, ensuring complete support for critical
Windows servers from day one
- Reduce storage requirements and recovery time with
patent-pending granular data recovery of leading Microsoft
applications, including Exchange, SharePoint, and Active Directory
- Prevent data loss on heterogeneous servers and maximize performance of supported Network Data
- Management Protocol (NDMP) filers and storage area network (SAN) environments through scalable remote agents and options
- From one console, easily update and manage a growing Backup
Exec infrastructure throughout a Windows data center, distributed
throughout the network or at remote offices
- Eliminate the backup window and ensure recovery point
objectives are easily met for Exchange, file servers, and SQL data with
continuous data protection
- Integrated security, backup, and archive functionality,
further providing complete data protection for growing businesses with
Symantec multiproduct integration
Complete data and system protection
Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 offers a comprehensive data protection and
recovery solution in one product suite, which reduces the complexity of
dealing with the backup and recovery of your company’s most valuable
asset—its data. Whether that data resides on a Windows
file server, a desktop, a virtual server, or a critical application
server like Exchange, SQL, or SharePoint, Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 has
the capability and compatibility to offer full protection and recovery
for both data and systems.
Designed to meet the growing needs of today’s businesses, Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 delivers
comprehensive disk and tape data protection and recovery for Windows
environments. The Backup Exec solution provides traditional tape-based
as well as disk-based continuous data protection—eliminating backup
windows altogether, speeding data recovery, and enabling end users to
recover their own files without IT intervention.
Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 also delivers patent-pending Granular
Recovery Technology that allows businesses to recover data in
seconds—including business-critical information such as individual
email messages, folders, and documents—from a single backup.
An optional centralized administration console provides scalable
management of distributed backup and remote servers. New infrastructure
management is also available for simplified inventory, deployment, and
upgrades of Backup Exec licenses and software patches through a single
console. Sophisticated database and groupware agents and storage
options easily expand data protection to protect critical applications
and provide added flexibility for storage environments.
Unmatched granular recovery and continuous protection—to ensure businesses meet their recovery time objectives
Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 delivers patent-pending Granular Recovery
Technology (GRT) for critical Microsoft applications, including
Exchange, Active Directory, SharePoint Server, and SharePoint
Services—providing the ability to recover granular data quickly and
efficiently from a single-pass backup.
This innovative technology eliminates the need to run Exchange mailbox
backups to recover granular data; plus, SharePoint, SharePoint
Services, and Active Directory data—including documents, list items and
user attributes, or properties—can be restored quickly and easily,
ensuring strict recovery time objectives are met.
Symantec Backup Exec also provides continuous data protection, which
complements Granular Recovery Technology by providing reliable, fast,
disk-based data protection that continuously backs up transaction logs
and assigns user-designated recovery points to eliminate the daily
backup window. Each recovery point can be easily opened and browsed for
restoration down
to a specific document or email in just minutes.
Continuous data protection provides protection for Windows based file
servers, Microsoft Exchange and SQL servers, desktops and laptops. And,
with Symantec Backup Exec Retrieve for file servers, end users can
quickly retrieve their own files—without IT intervention.
New product highlights
- New
Agent for VMware Virtual Infrastructure efficiently detects virtual
systems and provides comprehensive data protection for unlimited VMware
guest machines per ESX host environment and efficiently restores
individual files or an entire image from a single backup, saving time
and storage costs.
- New Agent for Microsoft
Virtual Servers protects unlimited guest systems running either
Microsoft Hyper-V or Virtual Server 2005 SP1 host environment and
provides efficient recovery of virtual files or an entire virtual
server image from a single backup, reducing overall management time.
- New
integrated data protection for Windows Essential Business Server 2008
allows administrators to easily manage Backup Exec job configuration
and monitoring through a single Essential Business Server
administrative console.
- Enhanced Agent for SharePoint Servers
provides added flexibility to restore SharePoint documents, sites, and
list items from a single-pass backup through patent-pending Granular
Recovery Technology.
- New SQL 2008 support
delivered in the Agent for SQL Servers provides point-in-time recovery
and integrated support for file stream and SQL database compression.
- New
Remote Media Server Agent for Linux Servers delivers storage
flexibility. Linux and Oracle data can be directed to attached tape and
disk storage resources to optimize and improve backup performance for
Linux environments.
- Enhanced NDMP Option
provides backup flexibility to protect NDMP-enabled NAS devices—Backup
support for remote NDMP devices to the Backup Exec media server
includes shared storage environments between Backup Exec media servers
and NDMP-enabled devices.
- New Infrastructure
Manager is powered by market-leading Altiris technology and allows
administrators to easily inventory a Backup Exec environment to quickly
locate both protected and unprotected systems, deploy new Backup Exec
components to unprotected systems, and easily upgrade existing Backup
Exec components to the latest version.
Proven and reliable
Symantec Backup Exec is based on more than two decades of proven engineering. The innovative architecture fully incorporates Microsoft design standards, helping to
ensure 100 percent compatibility with Microsoft Windows Server
operating systems.
Symantec Backup Exec software is Microsoft certified for Windows Server
2008, Windows Server 2003, and Windows 2000 environments. Symantec
Backup Exec 12.5 delivers an easy-to-manage interface and calendar view to quickly track and monitor backup and
recovery jobs. In addition, Backup Exec simplifies installation and
backups with its Pre-Install Environment Checker, which highlights any
potential issues before the software is installed. With its Job Test
Run, Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 will identify potential problems that
cause job failures and then notify the administrator so that corrective action can be taken.
Realize further benefits with automatic discovery of new resources,
which enables administrators to create a job for detecting new,
unprotected resources that are at risk and in need of backup. All of
these tools reduce the time and resources needed to install and run
Backup Exec while improving overall data protection.
Secure, scalable, high-performance architecture
Backup Exec offers added security with flexible 128-bit or 265-bit AES
encryption across the network or off to storage so critical data is
secure whether in transit or at rest. In addition, the software
architecture of Symantec Backup Exec is designed for enterprise
scalability and offers engineering benefits that minimize network traffic and maximize throughput performance.
The optional Remote Agents for servers running Windows, NetWare,
Macintosh, Linux, and UNIX use the exclusive Symantec Agent Accelerator
technology for distributed processing and source compression, providing
client access when protecting or restoring remote file and database
servers.
Symantec Backup Exec also helps ensure complete protection for Oracle (including RMAN and Real Application Clusters [RAC]), DB2®, SAP applications, and even Network
Data Management Protocol (NDMP) devices and storage area network (SAN)
environments.
The performance features of Symantec Backup Exec software leverage
high-performance network backup of all Windows Server platforms
including 64-bit systems, optimizing an organization’s overall backup
and recovery performance.
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Fact Sheets
Request Backup Exec Whitepapers
Request Backup Exec Whitepapers
The following whitepapers are available to download:
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Converging System and Data Protection
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Disk-Based Data Protection—Achieving Faster Backups and Restores and Reducing Backup Windows
- Quick Recovery of Microsoft Active Directory Using Symantec
Backup Exec 11d Agent for Active Directory - For use with Microsoft
Windows 2000 Server
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Continuous Protection for Microsoft SQL Server Databases
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Data Protection for Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Using the Agent for Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server
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Data Protection Solutions for NAS
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Business Value of Continuous Data Protection with Symantec Backup Exec Continuous Protection Server
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Continuous Protection for Windows File Servers - Using Symantec Backup Exec 11d Continuous Protection Server
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Protecting NetApp Filers with the NDMP Option
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Redefining Exchange Server Data Protection with Symantec Backup Exec 11d for Windows Servers
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Data Protection and Synchronization for Desktrop and Laptop Uses
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Centralized Management for Symantec Backup Exec 11d for Windows Servers
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Protecting Microsoft Live Communications Server 2005 with VERITAS Backup Exec
- Microsoft Corporation - Improving Reliability and Saving
Millions with Centralised Administration and Disk-based Data Protection
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