Symantec Backup Exec™ 2010

Delivers reliable backup and recovery designed for your growing business. Easily protect more data while you reduce storage and management costs through integrated deduplication and archiving technology. Reduce business downtime, ensure critical information on virtual or physical systems is always protected and restored in seconds.

Key Features

• Market leading data protection for physical and virtual server environments from desktop to servers
• Integrated and adaptable deduplication (using NetBackup™ PureDisk technology)
• Unified Archiving (powered by Enterprise Vault™)
• First-to-market granular recovery for virtual applications
• Patent-pending Granular Recovery Technology (GRT) recovers critical Microsoft application data in seconds
• Centralized 3-Tier Set-up, Reporting and Patch Management
• Scalable heterogeneous support through remote Agents and Options
• Continuous Data Protection for Exchange, File Server, SQL servers and desktop data
• Innovative multi-product integration with market leading technologies
• Key Benefits Protect more data while you reduce storage and management costs
• Optimizing network utilization across physical and virtual environments with integrated deduplication technology
• Easily automate storage and management savings with efficient archiving and backup through a single console
• Eliminate redundant backups for Microsoft Exchange, Active Directory, and SQL in a virtual environment with integrated VMware and Hyper-V protection
• Restores individual Exchange messages, SharePoint site items or documents, and Active Directory user preferences from a single-pass backup, eliminating Exchange mailbox backups, reducing recovery times, storage requirements and overall management resources
  Scalable job set-up, reporting and software patch management with Central Admin Server Option (CASO) and Backup Exec Infrastructure Manager (BEIM)*
• Prevent data loss on heterogeneous servers and optimize your backup performance with supported NDMP filers and SAN environments
• Eliminate your backup window and help ensures recovery point objectives are easily met for Exchange, File Server, SQL servers and desktop data through continuous backup
• Integrated security, backup and archive functionality, further providing complete data protection with Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery, Symantec Protection Suite and Symantec Enterprise Vault

New Features

• NEW Integrated Deduplication (using Veritas NetBackup PureDisk technology)
  Backup Exec’s NEW Deduplication Option provides an integrated and customizable duplication offerings to optimize any backup strategy: client deduplication (deduplicates data at source or remote server), media server deduplication (deduplicates data at media server), appliance deduplication (integrates with OpenStorage deduplication appliances) or a deduplicated backup set copy (deduplicate data from remote offices to headquarters).
  Save time and storage costs
  Minimize Backup Windows
  Operational Simplicity Fully Integrated info Backup Exec
  Easily Adaptable to Your Environment
• NEW Unified Archiving (powered by Symantec Enterprise Vault)
  Backup Exec NEW Archive Options provide unified backup and archiving for File and Exchange environments by uniquely archiving data from the backup copy rather than separately pulling data from the source. The archive option will provide administrators with the ability reduce redundant data from the Exchange or Files server source to free up storage space. Overall administrators will be able to easily index data and set retention periods to efficiently manage data lifecycles.
  Easily Automate Savings
  Consolidate Your Data
  Reduce Backup Management Resources
  Improves backup & recovery times
  Optimize Exchange and File Server Performance
  Keep storage at predictable levels
• Enhanced VMware vSphere 4.0 support and new virtual server application support
  Integrated backup and deduplication support for both on line and offline VMware ESX 3.5 Update 2 and vSphere 4.0 - plus new first-to-market virtual application protection for Microsoft Exchange, SQL, and Active Directory. Now from a single-pass backup, administrators will also experience automated Log Truncation of a virtual machine applications. From that single backup, administrators can then easily recover either the virtual machine or granular application data such as Exchange mailboxes, messages, calendar items or individual Active Directory user accounts or objects.
  First-to-Market Granular Recovery for Applications
  Rapid Exchange and Active Directory backup and recovery
  Eliminate redundant backups and recover data in minutes
  Protect the Latest VMware vSphere Environments
  Deduplicate Virtual Server Backups
  Reduce and consolidate storage
• NEW Windows 7, Exchange 2010 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Support
  Comprehensive protection for the latest Windows desktop, email and server environments Windows 7 and Server 2008 support for new VSS Express Writers, plus redirected restore support to .VHD files for simple protection of virtual disk data alongside of traditional physical disk data Integrated Exchange 2010 support for the new Database Availability Group (DAG) in Exchange 2010 and enhanced granular recovery support provides fast recovery of individual email and mailboxes while eliminating the need to perform an additional mailbox-level backup.
  Backup the latest Windows desktop and server and email application environments with ease
  Easily meet your recovery point objectives for Exchange with unmatched backup technology
  Reduce your Exchange 2010 backup requirements
  Manage your desktop and server backups through a single console
• Enhanced Agent for Enterprise Vault
  Automated backup and recovery of Enterprise Vault 8 SP2 (and higher) infrastructures with the ability to configure a single job to protect the entire EV infrastructure and easily recover an Enterprise Vault Site or individual indexes.The Agent for Enterprise Vault will also Integrate with the Enterprise Vault Migrator to provide archived data migration to Backup Exec tapes which is easily managed and controlled via the Enterprise Vault administration interface.
  Simple and flexible backup protection for some or all of an Enterprise Vault infrastructure
  Recover all aspects of the Enterprise Vault infrastructure, from entire installations to individual index files
  New migration simplicity for migrating Enterprise Vault data to tape or a B2D folder for long-term retention
  Automatically recover data that has been migrated to tape
• NEW Lotus Domino 8.5 Support
  Support for the latest Lotus Domino 8.5 email environments including support for:
  New Domino Attachment and Object Store (DAOS)
  Ability to restore individual Domino NLO (DAOS attachments) from a Database-level backup
  32-bit Domino installations running in a 64-bit Windows environment in order to allow for more flexible Domino environments
• Plus an improved restore browse view including new Lotus Domino specific nodes which simplifies the backup selection process.
  Protection for the latest shipping version of Lotus Domino
  Provides backup and recovery of the DAOS store and associated NLO files
  Supports both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Lotus Domino
• Enhanced Virtual Tape Library (VTL) Support and Licensing
  New VTL enhancements that integrates each VTL storage environment as a unique devices and shows only tape functions that are valid for VTLs (i.e. no retention). VTL media can also be modified to erase data that has reached its expiration data to reclaim storage space for more crucial data.
  In addition Backup Exec introduces a new VTL Unlimited Drive Option with provides unlimited Library Expansion Options per VTL devices.
  Enhanced protection for virtual tape libraries
  Simple, cost efficient pricing for VTL devices

Operating Systems

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (R2)
Microsoft Windows Essential Business Server 2008
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 family (SP1)
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 family
Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2003 (SP1)
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server family (only supported by the Agent for Windows Systems - no media server support)
Virtual Environments

VMware ESX Server  3.0 and 3.5 and vSphere 4.0
VMware Infrastructure 3 (replacement/rename for ESX Server)
VMware Server 1.0 (replacement/rename for GSX Server)
Microsoft Hyper-V (R2)
Client

Microsoft Windows 7 (Supported by DLO and Remote Agent for Windows Servers)
Microsoft Windows Vista (Ultimate, Business & Enterprise) (Supported by Remote Agent for Windows Servers only)
Microsoft Windows XP Professional (SP2) (SP2 is min for support for SQL Express 2005)
Note: for Mini-filter drivers (needed for Exchange granular support) Only certain versions of Windows Server 2003 support mini filters.

Note: Storage Provisioning will require Window 2003 R2 or Windows 2008. It will also depend on VDS 1.1
Internet Browser

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or later
Service Pack 1 is required for SQL Server 2005 Express
RAM

Backup Exec Media Server

Required: 512 MB RAM
Recommended: 1 GB RAM (or more for better performance) Note: RAM Requirements may vary depending on the operations performed, the options installed, and the specific computer configuration
Backup Exec CASO Server
Required: 512 MB RAM
Recommended: 1 GB RAM Note: RAM requirements may vary depending on the number of media servers being supported

Virtual Memory Recommendations
20 MB above the Windows recommended size for total paging file size (total for all disk volumes)

Processor

Intel Pentium, Xeon, AMD, or compatible

Disk space

1.44 GB (Typical Installation)
2.32 GB (includes all options)
Note: Disk space requirements may vary depending on operations performed, the options installed, and the specific system configuration. Backup Exec database and catalogs require additional space.

• NEW Deduplication Environments (optional)
  x64-bit Media Server
  One Quad-core or 2x dual-core processors
  1GB physical memory for each 1TB of deduplicated storage used
  If the Deduplication Option is used in conjunction with PureDisk, v6.6 of PureDisk is required
• NEW Exchange Mailbox Archiving Option Environments (optional)
  Media Server must be part of a domain or Active Directory
  Media Server must have enough disk space to store Archived data
  Disk space for Index files must be allocated at approximately 8% of Archived data storage
  Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher must be installed on the Media Server
  The Media Server and the Exchange Server must be in the same domain or have a trust relationship established with other domains where the Exchange Server or Media Server resides
  The media server must be in the same time zone as the file servers and Exchange servers from which eligible data is archived
  A mailbox must be configured for exclusive use by Backup Exec on each Exchange Server on which you want to select mailboxes for archiving
  Only the Exchange server backups that are sent to disk and for which the Granular Recovery Technology (GRT) option is enabled are available for archiving
  Outlook 2003 or 2007 must be installed on the Media Server for Exchange Mailbox Archiving
• NEW File System Archiving Option Environments(optional)
  Media Server must be part of a domain or Active Directory
  Media Server must have enough disk space to store Archived data
  Index space must be allocated at approximately 8% of Archived data storage
  Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher must be installed on the Media Server
  The Media Server and the File Server must be in the same domain or have a trust relationship established with other domains where the Exchange Server or Media Server resides
  The media server must be in the same time zone as the file servers and Exchange servers from which eligible data is archived
  File System Archiving can be performed against backups done to disk or tape

Other Hardware

Network interface card or a virtual network adapter card
DVD-ROM drive
(Recommended) A mouse
(Optional for pager notification) Modem supported by Microsoft Windows
(Optional for printer notification) Printer supported by Microsoft Windows
Storage Hardware

Backup Exec requires at least one storage media drive and/or single-drive robotic library and the appropriate controller card. Removable storage devices and non-removable hard drives can also be targeted for backups.

Note: Support for a single robotic library drive is available when you purchase Backup Exec. To enable support for additional robotic library drives, you must purchase Backup Exec Library Expansion Option.