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Data Sheet: Backup and Recovery
Symantec Backup Exec™ 12 for Windows® Servers
Scalable, high-performance architecture
The software architecture of Symantec Backup Exec is
designed for enterprise scalability and offers engineering
benefits that minimize network traffic and maximize
throughput performance. The optional Remote Agents for
servers running Windows, NetWare®, Mac, Linux®, and UNIX
use the exclusive Symantec Agent Accelerator technology
for distributed processing and source compression,
providing client access when protecting or restoring remote
file and database servers. Symantec Backup Exec also
helps ensure complete protection for Oracle® (including
RMAN and Real Application Clusters [RAC]), DB2®, SAP
applications, and even Network Data Management
Protocol (NDMP) devices and storage area network (SAN)
environments, optimizing an organization’s backup and
recovery performance.
The performance features of Symantec Backup Exec
software include the ability to leverage high-performance
network backup of all Windows server platforms, including
64-bit remote systems. Its integration with Microsoft
Volume Shadow Copy Server and its ability to protect
virtual environments make Symantec Backup Exec the gold
standard for Windows data protection.
Confidence in a connected world.
Feature Benefit
Windows data protection
Complete data protection for Windows-based
server environments
Provides reliable, trusted data protection for Windows based businesses, including optimized support of
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 with complete out-of-the-box backup protection for all open files and basic
system recovery
Patent-pending Granular Recovery Technology
(GRT) to recover critical application data in seconds
Restores individual Exchange messages, SharePoint documents, and Active Directory items from a single-pass
backup, eliminating multiple backup jobs—no more Exchange mailbox backups!
Continuous data protection Eliminates the backup window with Backup Exec Continuous Protection Server, which continuously protects
data as it changes, making it easy to meet recovery-point objectives for Exchange, File Server, SQL Server, and
desktop data
FIPS validated data encryption Includes FIPS validated 256-bit AES encryption (pending CMVP validation) for flexible data encryption across
the network or to the storage device
Open file data protection Helps ensure that open files on local media servers or remote Windows servers are protected while in use—and
are not skipped when running a backup job; Symantec Backup Exec Advanced Open File Option (now included
with Backup Exec software) protects open files at the volume level
Flexibility and ease of use
Innovative multi-product integration with market-
leading Symantec technologies
Provides integrated security, recovery, and archive functionality with Symantec Endpoint Protection, Symantec
Enterprise Vault, Symantec Online Storage, and complementary Backup Exec System Recovery Option, further
providing advanced protection for growing businesses
Scalable heterogeneous support through remote
agents and options
Complementary high-powered Backup Exec remote agents and options effectively prevent data loss on
heterogeneous servers and maximize backup and recovery performance for supported NDMP filers and SAN
environments
3-tier centralized management Provides robust, scalable backup operations, including load-balancing, distributed catalogs, bandwidth
throttling, fault tolerance, and monitoring and reporting, for many Symantec Backup Exec media servers in a
Windows data center, distributed throughout the network, or at remote offices
Windows system recovery
Advanced system recovery to dissimilar hardware
and virtual server environments
Provides disk-based system recovery in minutes to different hardware or even virtual servers in the event of
catastrophic failure, helping to ensure extremely fast and flexible recovery for Windows servers with Backup
Exec System Recovery Option
Basic disaster recovery Offers tape-based disaster recovery for traditional backup environments with Intelligent Disaster Recovery
Option, now included with every media server and Agent for Windows Server License