Symantec Backup
Exec System Recovery Desktop Edition is a
complete, disk-based system recovery
solution for Microsoft Windows based desktops and laptops
PC that allows businesses to recover
from system loss or disasters in
minutes, not hours or days—even to
dissimilar hardware platforms,
virtual environments, or in remote,
unattended locations.
From small
businesses to larger Windows
environments, Backup Exec System
Recovery is the gold standard in
complete Windows system recovery.
Key Features
Rapid, reliable
system recovery—even to dissimilar
hardware and virtual
environments
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Supports
Microsoft Windows Server®
2008
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Recovers
complete server, desktop,
and laptop systems in
minutes
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Scales to
meet your growing business
needs
Flexible
offsite protection and
enhanced recovery
capabilities
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Enables
offsite copy to FTP location
or secondary disk drive
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Granular
recovery of Exchange,
SharePoint®, or files and
folders from a single
interface
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Simple,
seamless conversion of
physical systems to virtual
environments
Key Benefits
Powerful
Windows recovery
capabilities
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Capture and protect the
entire Windows system,
including the operating
system, applications,
databases, all files,
device drivers,
profiles, settings, and
registry, in one
easy-to-manage recovery
point—without disrupting
user productivity or
application usage.
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Perform a full system
restoration, even to
bare-metal systems, in
minutes—without the need
to manually reinstall
and reconfigure
operating systems,
applications, system
settings, and
preferences.
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Symantec Recovery Disk
auto-detects hardware
and loads the
appropriate drivers to
boot the system,
eliminating the need to
manually build recovery
floppy disks.
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Customizable Symantec
Recovery Disk
automatically harvests
system drivers not
already included on the
Symantec Recovery Disk
and also allows
administrators to add
additional drivers for a
customized recovery
environment tailored to
meet your unique
hardware needs.
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New! Offsite copy
functionality enables
you to automatically
copy recovery points to
a remote server using
FTP or to an external
hard drive or network
share to enhance your
disaster recovery
efforts.
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New! Integration with
Symantec ThreatCon
allows you to easily
configure Backup Exec
System Recovery to
automatically run a
backup when the Symantec
ThreatCon level reaches
or exceeds the level you
specify.
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Calendar View shows
past, present, and
future recovery points
for each volume on the
system and the
protection level of
each.
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Google™ Desktop
integration allows for
familiar rapid search
and retrieval of files
and folders using a
common Web-browser
interface.
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Dynamic CPU-based
performance throttling
improves performance on
desktops and servers to
utilize resources more
efficiently while
capturing a recovery
point. Also included is
support for dual- and
quad-core systems.
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New! Create recovery
points for volumes up to
16 TB in size.
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Scheduled recovery
points help ensure
systems are
automatically backed up,
allowing administrators
to focus on other tasks.
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Incremental recovery
points can be scheduled
as often as every 15
minutes if desired.
Incremental recovery
points save time and
reduce disk storage
requirements by
capturing only the
changes that were made
since the last recovery
point.
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Customizable Event
Driven Recovery Points
allow users to specify
which executables or
.com files they wish to
trigger a new recovery
point. This expands on
the existing set of
event triggers (prior to
application
installation, user log
on or off, and
configurable storage
utilization changes).
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File/Folder Backup and
Recovery allows
administrators to back
up selective files and
folders on a separate
schedule from full
system or volume
recovery points. Users
can also search and
retrieve files from
file/folder backups.
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Manage backup
destinations to optimize
the hard drive space
being used for storing
backups.
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Save recovery points to
virtually any disk
storage device,
including
direct-attached storage,
NAS, SAN, USB drive,
FireWire drive, CD, DVD,
and so on.
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New! USB drive
identification—Backup
Exec System Recovery
intelligently and
uniquely communicates to
USB drives and will run
backup jobs to the given
devicee ven if the drive
letter changes.
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Network bandwidth
throttling enables
administrators to
generate recovery points
to network locations
without overloading the
network.
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Microsoft Volume Shadow
Copy Service (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.
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Pre- and post-command
processing allows
administrators to
customize additional
actions they wish to
take prior to capturing
a recovery point, or
after a recovery point
has been captured.
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Mount recovery points in
Windows Explorer for
immediate search, file
recovery, or virus
scanning.
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Support for Microsoft
Active Directory® allows
a restored domain
controller to be
re-synchronized with its
originating domain.
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SNMP traps enable
administrators to use
existing network
management consoles to
report on the status of
scheduled recovery
points.
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New! A Help and Support
page includes one-click
access to more
information, including
the product help system
and the product User’s
Guide.
Flexible
restoration options (Symantec Restore Anyware™
technology)
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Quickly
and easily restore entire
systems to dissimilar
hardware to dramatically
reduce recovery times and
save on significant hardware
investments.
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Hot
imaging combines with the
ability to restore to
different hardware platforms
on the fly and breaks the
barrier of incompatible
storage controllers and
hardware abstraction layers.
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Restore Anyware also supports
network interface
controllers (NICs), ensuring
that your NIC will function
properly after a recovery
point has been restored to
dissimilar hardware.
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Users can
migrate their system to a
new computer without
requiring a new
installation. This is key
when upgrading hardware or
repurposing systems to serve a different role.
Enhanced
virtual support
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Leverages
the power of virtualization
for seamless physical to
virtual (P2V) and virtual to
physical (V2P) conversions
to VMware® ESX Server,
VMware Server (formerly GSX
Server), VMware Workstation,
and Microsoft Virtual Server
disk formats.
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An
easy-to-use virtual
conversion wizard allows for
quick conversion directly to
VMDK or VHD files.
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Simplifies
testing and
migrations—Perform preflight
testing of patches,
application installations,
configuration changes or
driver updates in a virtual
environment before applying
changes to production
systems.
Easy remote
system recovery (LightsOut
Restore capabilities)
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Recover
systems in remote or
inaccessible locations
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Eliminate
in-person visits to perform
a full bare-metal recovery
by booting the system from
its baseboard
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management
controller. (Note that
remote out-of-band power
management capabilities are
not provided with LightsOut
Restore.)
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The
Symantec Recovery Disk is
placed on the system hard
drive, eliminating the need
to access it from the CD.
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Drivers
can be manually added
directly to the Symantec
Recovery Disk files located
in the boot volume
subdirectory.
Enhanced
Exchange, SharePoint, and
file/folder recovery
(New! Symantec Backup Exec System
Recovery Granular Restore
Option)
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New!
From a single, multi-tab
interface, quickly recover
individual Exchange
messages, SharePoint
documents, or files and
folders.
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Recover
critical Exchange mailboxes,
folders, messages, or
attachments in
seconds—without the need for
mailbox backups—and forward
them directly through Microsoft Outlook® if
desired.
Now supports Exchange 2007!
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New!
Recover Microsoft
SharePoint Server documents
in seconds from a single
system recovery point.
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New!
Restore files and
folders in seconds with the
ability to search multiple
recovery points at the same
time.
Scalable
centralized management (Symantec Backup Exec System
Recovery Manager)
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Manage the
installations of Symantec
Backup Exec System Recovery
across your entire
organization to simplify
administration.
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Monitor
the current protection
status of all managed
systems across your entire
organization with the at-a
glance consolidated “Home
Page” view. You can also
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access “Hot
Spots” for quick problem
analysis and view historical
trends.
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View
real-time status of backup
jobs with the ability to
filter on computer name, job
type, job name, and IP
address; and examine errors
to troubleshoot any problems
identified.
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Centralized access to
computer details includes
volume name, size, amount
and percentage of space
used, file system type, and
last recovery point time and
location.
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Enable
end-user recovery of files
and folders without IT
intervention with intuitive,
Web-based search using
Backup Exec Retrieve.
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Search and
recover data in Backup Exec
for Windows Servers
Continuous Protection Server
environments as well as
Backup Exec System Recovery
environments with Universal
Backup Exec Retrieve.
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Define
recovery point policies for
groups of servers or
desktops with similar
requirements, then simply
drag and drop to deploy the
policies.
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Generate
predefined reports and
export to .csv, .html,
Excel® spreadsheet, or .xml
formats for easy
distribution to IT
management.
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Enable
role-based administration
for varying levels of
administration.
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Set
default configuration
settings for an individual
system or groups of systems,
including performance
throttling, network
bandwidth utilization, and
notifications via email or
SNMP traps.
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Jump-start
the creation of recovery
points on remote systems
when jobs are missed.
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Supports
centralized administration
of pre-existing Backup Exec
System Recovery 7.0
installations.
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Includes
the Backup Exec System
Recovery Download Center, an
automated Web site for
client download and
distribution.
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New!
Altiris Notification
Server 6.5 customers can
also manage system backup
tasks using Backup Exec
System Recovery and the
Backup Exec System Recovery
Integration Component for
Altiris.
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Just how much is at stake when
critical business information is
unavailable? A 2005 study of 80
large organizations by Infonetics
Research found that overall downtime
costs averaged an astounding 3.6% of
annual revenue. In another study,
Forrester Research estimated the
average cost of downtime for
e-commerce sites at $8,000 per hour;
at larger sites, such as eBay and
Amazon, the costs soar to hundreds
of thousands of dollars per hour.
According to Contingency Planning
Research, system downtime costs
anywhere between $14,000 and
$6,450,000 per hour.
According to IDC, hardware failure,
application-related failure, and
human error are the leading causes
of IT downtime, not natural
disasters such as hurricanes or
earthquakes. While the latter grab
the headlines, everyday occurrences
put business at risk.
Traditionally, tape has dominated as
the backup and recovery medium of
choice.
Traditional file-based
backup software is too complicate and too slow. It takes
even more time and effort to restore a failed
system from backup tapes. Now you can turn to
sector-based solution for easier and faster
disaster recovery. Quick recovery reduces downtime and expense
associated with downtime.
As the cost of disk-to-disk backup
decreases and the need to restore
rapidly becomes ever more important,
disk is increasingly finding its
place in what IDC calls the "backup
hierarchy."
Thanks to
advances in
disk-based
backup
technology,
enterprises can
transcend the
limitations of
traditional
backup and
recovery
practices to
take advantage
of the following
benefits:
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Speed
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Flexibility
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Efficiency
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Lower
Expense
Today's recovery solutions combine
the speed and reliability of
disk-based, bare-metal Windows
system recovery with new
technologies for
hardware-independent restoration.
This allows organizations to perform
a full system recovery in just
minutes, and to create real-time
system recovery points without
disrupting accessibility.
Additionally, this delivers the
flexibility to recover to dissimilar
hardware.
By removing the need to
recover systems to the identical
hardware where recovery points were
created, this eliminates the cost of
having to maintain duplicate
hardware solely for the purposes of
system recovery in the event of an
emergency.
In addition, administrators 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.
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