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Data Sheet: Backup and Recovery
Symantec Backup Exec™ 12 for Windows® Servers
• Enhanced! Online Protection of Microsoft Virtual
Server 2005—Optimized support for Microsoft Virtual
Server 2005 provides fast, flexible virtual backup and
recovery support.
• New! LTO-4 tape drive support—Support is provided
for tape manufacturers’ new LTO-4 hardware encryption
functionality by managing the encryption keys through
the tape drive so that data can be quickly decrypted and
easily recovered to the Backup Exec media server. In
addition, Symantec Backup Exec 12 now supports the
latest LTO-3 and LTO-4 high-performance tape drives,
providing high-speed block size backups, enhancing
overall backup times.
• New! Integrated 60-day trialware of agents and
options—Using the Backup Exec 12 console, it is now
easy to download and evaluate all the Symantec Backup
Exec agents and options in your current Symantec Backup
Exec 12 environment for 60 days, absolutely free. Then,
before the trialware period expires, simply purchase
and install the license keys for the agents or options you
want to extend permanently. No reinstallation or new
configuration is necessary.
• Desktop and Laptop Option—This option improves
efficiency by protecting only the changed elements (block
level) of files, as well as integrating end-user recovery with
the Continuous Protection Server. In addition, this option
enables a single restore point with Backup Exec Retrieve.
• Central Admin Server Option—Efficient 3-tier server
management simplifies and centralizes the management
and monitoring of multiple Backup Exec media servers
within the network environment, including support for
nonpersistent connections.
Proven and reliable
Symantec Backup Exec is based on over 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 delivers an enhanced user
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 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.
Confidence in a connected world.