Data Sheet: Data Protection

Symantec Backup Exec™ System Recovery

Protect Against Business Downtime and Disaster with Rapid, Reliable Backup and Recovery

Overview
Minimize the impact of downtime and disruption
Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery 2010 is a simple,
• Replace time-consuming manual processes with fast,
cost-effective backup and recovery solution for small
automated recovery.
businesses that helps minimize downtime and avoid
disaster by easily recovering individual data files/folders • Rapid, reliable recovery using disk-based technology.

or complete Windows systems in minutes – not hours or • Remote recovery of data or systems – without requiring
days – even to different hardware, virtual environments, or on-site IT support.
remote locations. New editions and options to support your diverse

It is the perfect standalone solution for small business backup and recovery needs

customers with 1 – 4 Windows servers and can scale to • Linux Edition – restore complete Linux systems or
larger Windows environments as well, working in individual files/folders in minutes to dramatically
conjunction with Symantec Backup Exec™. minimize downtime (available December 2009).

• Virtual Edition – protect an unlimited number of

Key Benefits Windows virtual guest machines per host with a single
Manage your business, not your backups license.

• Backup automatically while you work, without disrupting • Centrally manage system backup and recovery with
productivity. Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery Management

• Protect proactively, both data and systems through Solution.

scheduled or event-driven backups.

Features
• Flexible off-site protection enhances disaster recovery
capabilities. Powerful Windows recovery capabilities

Easily recover what you need, when and where you (Server Edition, Desktop Edition, and Small Business Server

need it Edition)

• Recover complete Windows systems in minutes, • Capture and protect the entire Windows system,

including Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7. including the operating system, applications, databases,
all files, device drivers, profiles, settings, and registry, in
• Rapid and reliable recovery to different hardware, virtual
one easy-to-manage recovery point—without disrupting
environments or remote locations.
user productivity or application usage.
• Easily restore files or folders, Exchange email messages
• Perform a full system restoration, even to bare-metal
or SharePoint documents in seconds.
systems, in minutes—without the need to manually

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reinstall and reconfigure operating systems, • Save recovery points to virtually any disk storage device,
applications, system settings, and preferences. including direct-attached storage, NAS, SAN, USB drive,

• Symantec Recovery Disk auto-detects hardware and FireWire drive, CD, DVD, Blu-ray Disc and so on.

loads the appropriate drivers to boot the system, • Integration with Symantec ThreatCon allows you to
eliminating the need to manually build recovery media. easily configure Backup Exec System Recovery to

• Customizable Symantec Recovery Disk automatically automatically run a backup when the Symantec

harvests system drivers not already included on the ThreatCon level reaches or exceeds the level you specify.

Symantec Recovery Disk and also allows administrators • Dynamic CPU-based performance throttling improves
to add additional drivers for a customized recovery performance on desktops and servers to utilize
environment tailored to meet your unique hardware resources more efficiently while capturing a recovery
needs. point. Also included is support for dual- and quad-core

• Off-site copy functionality enables you to automatically systems.

copy recovery points to a remote server using FTP or to • Cold imaging technology enables IT administrators to
an external hard drive or network share to enhance your capture a backup of a system in a preboot state, without
disaster recovery efforts. having to install any software on the system.

• Calendar View shows past, present, and future recovery • File/Folder Backup and Recovery allows administrators
points for each volume on the system and the protection to back up selective files and folders on a separate
level of each. schedule from full system or volume recovery points.

• Scheduled recovery points help ensure systems are Users can also search and retrieve files from file/folder

automatically backed up, allowing administrators to backups.

focus on other tasks. • Google™ Desktop integration allows for familiar rapid

• Incremental recovery points can be scheduled as often search and retrieval of files and folders using a common

as every 15 minutes if desired. Incremental recovery Web-browser interface.

points save time and reduce disk storage requirements • Manage backup destinations to optimize the hard drive
by capturing only the changes that were made since the space being used for storing backups.
last recovery point. • USB drive identification intelligently and uniquely
• Customizable Event Driven Recovery Points allow users communicates to USB drives and will run backup jobs to
to specify which executable(s) or .com files they wish to the given device even if the drive letter changes.
trigger a new recovery point. Additional event triggers • Network bandwidth throttling enables administrators to
include: prior to application installation, user log on or generate recovery points to network locations without
off, and configurable storage utilization changes. overloading the network.

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• Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) integration Enhanced Exchange, SharePoint, and file/folder recovery
automatically sets databases that are VSS-aware into (Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery Granular Restore
the “quiet” state so that recovery points can be captured Option – now included with the core Server and Small
without taking the databases offline. Business Server Editions)
• Pre- and post-command processing allows • From a single, multi-tab interface, quickly recover
administrators to customize additional actions they wish individual Exchange messages, SharePoint documents,
to take prior to capturing a recovery point or after a or files and folders.
recovery point has been captured.
• Recover critical Exchange mailboxes, folders, or
• Mount recovery points in Windows Explorer for messages with any associated attachments in
immediate search, file recovery, or virus scanning. seconds—without the need for mailbox backups—and
• Support for Microsoft Active Directory® allows a restored forward them directly through Microsoft Outlook® if
domain controller to be resynchronized with its desired. Now supports Exchange 2010!
originating domain. • Recover Microsoft SharePoint Server documents in
Flexible restoration options seconds from a single system recovery point.

(Symantec Restore Anyware™ technology) • Restore files and folders in seconds with the ability to

• Quickly and easily restore entire systems to dissimilar search multiple recovery points at the same time.

hardware to dramatically reduce recovery times and save Enhanced virtual support
on significant hardware investments. • Leverages the power of virtualization for seamless
• Hot imaging combines with the ability to restore to physical-to-virtual (P2V) and virtual-to-physical (V2P)
different hardware platforms on the fly and breaks the conversions, now including support for VMware vSphere
barrier of incompatible storage controllers and hardware 4.0, Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2, and Citrix
abstraction layers. XenServer 5.x.

• Restore Anyware also supports network interface • An easy-to-use virtual conversion wizard allows for quick
controllers (NICs), ensuring that your NIC will function conversion directly to VMDK or VHD files. Additionally, IT
properly after a recovery point has been restored to administrators can set a schedule for having physical
dissimilar hardware. recovery points (backups) converted to virtual systems,

• Users can migrate their system to a new computer enabling immediate recovery.

without requiring a new installation. This is key when • Simplifies testing and migrations—Perform preflight
upgrading hardware or repurposing systems to serve a testing of patches, application installations,
different role. configuration changes, or driver updates in a virtual

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environment before applying changes to production graphical user interface to schedule and manage
systems. backups.

• New! Virtual Edition protects an unlimited number of Scalable centralized management – now available at
Windows virtual guest machines per host with a single no-charge
license. This provides a cost-savings for organizations (New! Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery
when protecting virtual environments. Management Solution - Powered by the Symantec
Easy remote system recovery Management Platform)

(LightsOut Restore capabilities) • Centrally manage system backup and recovery

• Eliminate in-person visits to perform a full bare-metal operations for Backup Exec System Recovery 2010, 8.5

recovery by booting the system from its baseboard and 8.0 as well as Backup Exec System Recovery Linux

management controller. (Note that remote out-of-band Edition.

power management capabilities are not provided with • Manage up to 2,500 clients, whether they are servers,
LightsOut Restore.) small business servers, desktops or laptops, with one

• The Symantec Recovery Disk is placed on the system instance.

hard drive, eliminating the need to access it from the CD. • Monitor the current protection status of all managed

• Drivers can be manually added directly to the Symantec systems across your entire organization with the

Recovery Disk files located in the boot volume at-a-glance consolidated Home Page view.

subdirectory. • Centralized access to computer details includes volume

Powerful Linux recovery capabilities (Available name, size, amount and percentage of space used, file

December 2009) system type, and last recovery point time and location.

New! Linux Edition provides image level backup of Red Hat • Quickly identify and drill-down to problem areas via

& SUSE Linux systems through a command-line interface, powerful filtering system.

including hot or cold backups of system volumes, • Create, edit, and distribute backup jobs, policies and
configurable compression and encryption. client settings.

• Rapid, reliable backup and recovery for Linux operating • Discover unprotected clients with remote client
systems. discovery.

• Recover entire systems, volumes or individual files and • Centralized agent deployment provides the ability to
folders. push installation packages and upgrade packages out to

• Central management is available through Backup Exec remote systems.

System Recovery Management Solution - including a • Enables remote recovery of Windows volumes or
complete Windows systems.

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System Requirements
• Manage physical to virtual conversions, off-site copy
capabilities and backup destination monitoring from a Backup Exec System Recovery 2010

central location. Operating system

• Physical-to-virtual (P2V) operations can be scheduled Microsoft Windows 32-bit or 64-bit operating systems:
separately, with a single P2V task converting backups
• Windows 7 Ultimate, Enterprise or Professional
from multiple systems and optionally uploading them
• Windows Vista® Ultimate, Business or Enterprise
directly to a Hyper-V 2008 R2 or vSphere 4.0 host.
• Windows XP Professional/Home (SP2 or later) or Media
• Off-site copy operations can also be scheduled
Center
separately. Dedicated off-site support removes
processing overhead from protected resources. • Windows Small Business Server 2003 or 2008

• Advanced reporting and management capabilities via • Windows Essential Business Server 2008

integration with the Symantec Management Platform. • Windows Server® 2003, 2008 (including SP1) and Server

• Centrally configure policies that control the alerting 2008 R2

features of Backup Exec System Recovery 2010 such as Virtual platforms (for converted recovery points)
SMTP (email alerts), SNMP traps, Windows event log • VMware vSphere 4.0
notifications, etc.
• VMware ESXi 3.5 and 4.0

• VMware ESX 3.0, 3.5 and 4.0

Available Products
• VMware Server 1.0 and 2.0
The Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery 2010 family
includes the following products: • VMware Workstation 4, 5, and 6

• Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery Server Edition • Microsoft Hyper-V 1.0 and Hyper-V Server 2008 R2

• Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery Small Business • Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 and later

Server Edition • Citrix XenServer 4.x and 5.x

• Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery Desktop Edition

• Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery Virtual Edition

• Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery Linux Edition

• Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery Management

Solution

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Backup Exec System Recovery Linux Edition Visit Our Web Site
Operating system http://www.backupexec.com or http://www.symantec.com
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, SP1 and SP2 (x86) Contact Us Today
32-bit
Call toll-free 1 (800) 745 6054
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, SP1 and SP2 (x86_64
To speak with a Product Specialist outside the U.S.
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For specific country offices and contact numbers, please
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 (x86) 32-bit
visit our website.
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