Data Sheet

Data Sheet: Backup & Recovery
Symantec Backup Exec™ 12.5 for Windows® Servers
Confidence in a connected world.
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• Enhanced NDMP Option provides backup flexibility to
protect NDMP-enabled NAS devices—Backup support
for remote NDMP devices to the Backup Exec media
server includes shared storage environments between
Backup Exec media servers and NDMP-enabled
devices.
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New Infrastructure Manager is powered by
market-leading Altiris technology and allows
administrators to easily inventory a Backup Exec
environment to quickly locate both protected and
unprotected systems, deploy new Backup Exec
components to unprotected systems, and easily
upgrade existing Backup Exec components to the
latest version.
Proven and reliable
Symantec Backup Exec is based on more than 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 12.5 delivers an easy-to-manage
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 12.5 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.
Secure, scalable, high-performance architecture
Backup Exec offers added security with flexible 128-bit
or 256-bit AES encryption across the network or off to
storage so critical data is secure whether in transit or at
rest. In addition, 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®,
Macintosh®, 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.
The performance features of Symantec Backup Exec
software leverage high-performance network backup of
all Windows Server platforms including 64-bit systems,
optimizing an organization’s overall backup and
recovery performance.