When organizations think of backup and recovery, it is usually associated
with protecting the data residing on a server. Too often, so much effort is
put on the need to protect the data that the system is overlooked. When the
system isn't working, the chances of accessing the data are slim. When a
server operating system fails, it can take many hours or days to rebuild and
restore the server. This process includes reinstalling the OS, applications,
patches, configuring settings, etc. Even so, there are no guarantees that
the server will be in the exact same state as before the failure took place.
The same applies to a single user desktop or laptop PC. Many laptop and desktop PC carry
sensitive data that is critical to the survival of a company.
Downtime during the system
recovery is not just unproductive, but costly. Extended downtime can mean
the end of a business. To protect your career and your company's financial
viability, you need to be able to perform data restoration and bare metal
system recoveries not just more efficiently, but much faster than ever
before.
Thanks to advances in disk-based backup, and bare-metal Windows system
recovery with new technologies for hardware-independent restoration, your IT
department can transcend the limitations of traditional backup and recovery
practices to take advantage of
speed, flexibility, efficiency,
and
lowers the total cost of ownership of storage management.
Using Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery, the process is just a couple of
clicks away from automatic running and can take only an hour or less. You can
perform system restorations even if there's no hardware available by restoring
recovery points to virtual environments. When new hardware is available, or
existing hardware is repaired, the servers can then be restored from a virtual
machine back to a physical machine without impacting business continuity.
• Captures a system’s entire live state including all files,
applications, operating systems, and settings in one easy-to-manage file,
without disrupting user productivity or application usage.
• Lets you perform a full system restoration or a complete
bare-metal recovery in minutes, not days or hours.
• Dissimilar hardware restoration reduces recovery times and
saves significant hardware investments by eliminating the need to recover
systems to the identical hardware platform where recovery points were
created.
•
Symantec Recovery Disk is PXE compatible and can be loaded remotely even in
the event of complete system corruption providing additional options for
remote bare metal restorations.
• IT Administrators can now easily restore servers in
remote, unattended environments and distributed locations from a Windows
desktop, laptop or Pocket PC using the LightsOut Restore functionality.
• Performance throttling improves performance on desktops and
servers to utilize resources more effectively while capturing a recovery point.
• Network bandwidth throttling enables administrators to
generate recovery points to network locations without overloading the network.
• Microsoft VSS integration automatically sets databases that
are VSS-aware into the “quiet” state so that recovery points can be captured
without taking the databases offline.
• Save recovery points to virtually any disk storage device,
including direct attached storage, NAS, SAN, USB drive, FireWire drive, CD, DVD,
and so on.
• Scheduled recovery points help ensure systems are enabled for
quick recovery while allowing administrators to focus their attention on other
tasks.
Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery is available on the
following editions.
Backup Exec System Recovery Server Edition
Backup Exec System Recovery Windows Small Business Server Edition
Backup Exec System Recovery Desktop Edition
