BackUp Exec

Backup Exec 15 delivers powerful, flexible, and easy-to-use backup and recovery designed for your entire infrastructure regardless of platform: virtual, physical or cloud. Advanced integration with the most recent releases of VMware and Hyper-V ensures recovery is fast and efficient. In a matter of minutes, you can recover anything including VMs, applications, databases, files, folders and granular application objects.

Key benefits:

• Eliminate niche solutions that increase management time, backup jobs, duplicate data, storage and costs with a single unified scalable solution that protects both virtual and physical.
  
• Get fast and reliable backups including backups of VMware and Hyper-V virtual machines and backups that leverage Backup Execs deduplication technology.
  
• Dramatically minimize downtime and data loss by rapidly recovering what you need, when you need it.
  
• Efficiently restore data directly from storage, which simplifies and speeds up recovery when you need it most. No more wasting valuable time and disk space mounting the backup job, determining whats inside, and searching for specific data.
  
• Protect more data while minimizing backup windows, network traffic, and the disk space required for storing backup files with integrated deduplication and archiving technology.
  
• Minimize CPU, memory, and I/O load performance impacts on the virtual host when performing reliable and consistent application aware virtual machine backups.
  
• Manage your entire backup environment from a single management console saving you time, money and complexity.

Backup Exec is available in the following editions:

• Symantec Backup Exec 2015 (per module - media server, agent and option)
  
• Symantec Backup Exec 2015 V-Ray Edition (per occupied socket)
  
• Symantec Backup Exec 2015 Capacity Edition (per front-end TB)
  
• Symantec Backup Exec 3600 Series Appliance (per appliance)
  
• Symantec Backup Exec 2015 Small Business Edition (per server/virtual machine)

BackUp Exec - Features

Key Features:

• Protect virtual and physical environments with a single solution.
  
• Fast virtual machine snapshots through deep integration with Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and VMwares vStorage APIs for Data Protection (VADP) minimizes CPU, memory, and I/O load performance impacts on the virtual host.
  
• Backup to disk, tape, and cloud.
  
• Fast, efficient, and versatile recovery that easily restores virtual machines, servers, applications, databases, file/folders or granular objects in seconds.
  
• Integrated bare-metal disaster recovery, physical to virtual (P2V) and virtual to physical (V2P) recovery.
  
• Flexible block-level data deduplication across your entire virtual and/or physical environment.
  
• Automatically identify and protect new VMs as they appear so you can be assured your VMs are protected from day one.
  
• Easy-to-use interface with intelligent dashboards and intuitive wizards provide the visibility you need to quickly track, monitor and manage every backup and recovery job.

   

BackUp Exec - System Requirements

System Requirements:

You cannot install a Backup Exec server on a computer that runs the Windows Server Core installation option of Windows Server 2008/2012. You can only install the Backup Exec Agent for Windows on Server Core computers.

On the computers that run Windows 2003, ensure that those computers have Windows Imaging Component installed before you install Backup Exec 2014. Windows Imaging Component is required to install Backup Exec 2014.

See the Microsoft website for more information on downloading and installing Windows Imaging Component.

You cannot install SQL Express or SQL Server on a Windows Server 2008 computer that is configured in a Read Only Domain Controller (RODC) role. The Read Only Domain Controller role does not let you use the local accounts that are required for SQL Express and SQL Server. When you install Backup Exec on an RODC computer you must select a remote SQL instance for the Backup Exec Database.

For Windows Server 2012 and later computers, you cannot install Backup Exec or the Agent for Windows on a volume that is enabled for deduplication in Windows or an ReFS volume.

• Additional Application Support: You can use Backup Exec with Microsoft System Center Operation Manager (SCOM) 2007.
• Internet Browser: Internet Explorer 7.0 or later.
• Processor: Intel Pentium, Xeon, AMD, or compatible.
• SQL Server or SQL Express: SQL Server 2008R2 SP2
• Memory: Required: 1GB RAM above the operating system's requirements. Recommended: 2 GB RAM (or more for better performance)
  • RAM requirements may vary depending on the operations performed, the options installed, and the specific computer configuration.
  • For the Central Admin Server Option: 1 GB RAM is required; 2 GB RAM is recommended.
  • Symantec Recovery Disk: 1 GB minimum (dedicated) for the multi-lingual version.
  • Virtual Memory Recommendations: 20 MB above the Windows recommended size for total paging file size (total for all disk volumes). Refer to your Microsoft Windows help documentation for instructions on how to view or set the paging file size.
• Installation Disk Space:
  • 1.26 GB (Typical installation)
    
  • 1.91 GB (Includes all options)
  • Note: Disk space requirements may vary depending on the operations performed, the options installed, and the specific system configuration. The Backup Exec database and catalogs require additional space. An additional 330 MB is required for SQL Express.
• Storage Hardware: You can use storage media drives, robotic libraries, removable storage devices, and non-removable hard drives. Support is available for the first drive in each robotic library when you purchase Backup Exec. To enable support for each additional robotic library drive, you must purchase the Backup Exec Library Expansion Option.