Symantec Backup
Exec System Recovery 8 is a
complete, disk-based system recovery
solution for Microsoft® Windows
based servers, desktops, and laptops
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
recovery—even to dissimilar
hardware and virtual
environments
• Supports
Microsoft Windows Server®
2008
• Recovers
complete server, desktop,
and laptop systems in
minutes
• Scales to
meet your growing business
needs
Flexible
offsite protection and
enhanced recovery
capabilities
• Enables
offsite copy to FTP location
or secondary disk drive
• Granular
recovery of Exchange,
SharePoint®, or files and
folders from a single
interface
• Simple,
seamless conversion of
physical systems to virtual
environments
Key Benefits
Powerful
Windows recovery
capabilities
• 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.
• 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.
• Symantec
Recovery Disk auto-detects
hardware and loads the
appropriate drivers to boot
the system, eliminating the
need to manually build
recovery floppy disks.
•
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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Calendar View shows
past, present, and future recovery
points for each volume on the system and
the protection level of each.
• Google™ Desktop
integration allows for familiar rapid
search and retrieval of files and
folders using a common Web-browser
interface.
• 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.
• New! Create
recovery points for volumes up to 16 TB
in size.
• Scheduled recovery
points help ensure systems are
automatically backed up, allowing
administrators to focus on other tasks.
• 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.
• 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).
• 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.
• Manage backup
destinations to optimize the hard drive
space being used for storing backups.
• Save recovery points
to virtually any disk storage device,
including direct-attached storage, NAS,
SAN, USB drive, FireWire drive, CD, DVD,
and so on.
• New! USB drive
identification—Backup Exec System
Recovery intelligently and uniquely
communicates to USB drives and will run
backup jobs to the given deviceeven if
the drive letter changes.
• Network bandwidth
throttling enables administrators to
generate recovery points to network
locations without overloading the
network.
• 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.
• 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.
• Mount recovery points
in Windows Explorer for immediate
search, file recovery, or virus
scanning.
• Support for Microsoft
Active Directory® allows a restored
domain controller to be re-synchronized
with its originating domain.
• SNMP traps
enable administrators to use
existing network management
consoles to report on the
status of scheduled recovery
points.
• 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)
• Quickly
and easily restore entire
systems to dissimilar
hardware to dramatically
reduce recovery times and
save on significant hardware
investments.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
adifferent role.
Enhanced
virtual support
• 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.
• An
easy-to-use virtual
conversion wizard allows for
quick conversion directly to
VMDK or VHD files.
• 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)
• Recover
systems in remote or
inaccessible locations
• Eliminate
in-person visits to perform
a full bare-metal recovery
by booting the system from
its baseboard
management
controller. (Note that
remote out-of-band power
management capabilities are
not provided with LightsOut
Restore.)
• The
Symantec Recovery Disk is
placed on the system hard
drive, eliminating the need
to access it from the CD.
• 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)
• New!
From a single, multi-tab
interface, quickly recover
individual Exchange
messages, SharePoint
documents, or files and
folders.
• Recover
critical Exchange mailboxes,
folders, messages, or
attachments in
seconds—without the need for
mailbox backups—and forward
them directly
throughMicrosoft Outlook® if
desired.
Now supports Exchange 2007!
• New!
Recover Microsoft
SharePoint Server documents
in seconds from a single
system recovery point.
• 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)
• Manage the
installations of Symantec
Backup Exec System Recovery
across your entire
organization to simplify
administration.
• 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
access “Hot
Spots” for quick problem
analysis and view historical
trends.
• 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.
•
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.
• Enable
end-user recovery of files
and folders without IT
intervention with intuitive,
Web-based search using
Backup Exec Retrieve.
• 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.
• Define
recovery point policies for
groups of servers or
desktops with similar
requirements, then simply
drag and drop to deploy the
policies.
• Generate
predefined reports and
export to .csv, .html,
Excel® spreadsheet, or .xml
formats for easy
distribution to IT
management.
• Enable
role-based administration
for varying levels of
administration.
• 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.
• Jump-start
the creation of recovery
points on remote systems
when jobs are missed.
• Supports
centralized administration
of pre-existing Backup Exec
System Recovery 7.0
installations.
• Includes
the Backup Exec System
Recovery Download Center, an
automated Web site for
client download and
distribution.
• 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 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:
-
Speed
-
Flexibility
-
Efficiency
-
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, it delivers the
flexibility to recover to dissimilar
hardware. This eliminates the cost of
having to maintain duplicate
hardware solely for the purposes of
system recovery in the event of an
emergency.
IT staff 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.
Better and faster backup and
recovery are required because IT
downtime has become less predictable
given all the dynamics that can
affect IT today. As they
increasingly expose their networks
to customers, partners, and
suppliers, enterprises must be able
to isolate a threat or outage and
know precisely what steps to take to
recover.
By deploying both best-of-breed data
protection and best-of-breed system
recovery solutions, enterprises are
in a better position to keep their
business up, running, and growing,
no matter what happens.
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