Data Backup and Recovery

Backup Exec™ for Windows Servers

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The Gold Standard in Windows Data Protection

VERITAS Backup Exec™ 10 for Windows Servers is the Gold Standard in Windows data protection providing comprehensive, cost-effective, and certified backup and recovery - including the fastest disk-based recovery. An intuitive, web-based user interface simplifies installation and management of backup and remote servers with easy-to-use wizards. Centralized administration provides scalable management of distributed backup and remote servers. Wizards simplify data protection and recovery procedures for any level user and any size network. With a complete family of high performance agents and options to protect Windows, Linux, and UNIX server data, as well as desktops and laptops, Backup Exec offers simple, flexible, and granular data protection.

Ø Support for Microsoft Windows Servers, including System State and Shadow Copy components: Microsoft certified support for Windows Server 2003 & 2000 helps reduce costs, deployment time and ensure compatibility and reliability, protecting all operating system information including Active Directory

Ø Microsoft Tape Format Read/Write: Allows the interchange of media with the Windows Server backup applet.

Ø Graphical User Interface / Administration Console: Provides a simple, intuitive browser-like console for ease of use, allowing customization of the columns, layout and type of information to be displayed.

Ø Policies: Provide a simple, logical method for managing backup jobs and strategies. Policies contain job templates, which have job attributes that define how and when Backup Exec processes a job.

Ø Desktop and Laptop Option: Simplifies desktop and laptop data protection with simplified deployment and support for Outlook 2003.

Ø Support for Exchange Server 2003: Leverages Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Volume Snapshot (VSS) technology enabling users to select either the VERITAS or the Microsoft proprietary snapshot technology for protecting open files.

Ø Support for SQL Servers: Delivers fast, dependable method for complete SQL Server protection on 32-bit servers.

Ø Task Wizards: Simplifies installation, setup, backup, recovery, media management, disaster preparation, cluster installation and agent configuration.

Ø Backup via Specified Backup Network using Secondary NIC: Helps reduces LAN traffic by isolating backup and restore operations for servers on the Local Area Network to a dedicated sub-network.

Ø One-Button Backup: Speeds execution of a complete local system backup without having to define a backup job.

Ø Outlook-style Calendar Based Job Scheduler: Simplifies job scheduling and management of backup operations.

Ø Environment Check: Improves installations with new utility that runs before Backup Exec is installed and checks if the media server has the proper system environment (operating system version, service packs, etc.) and checks 3rd party application versions.

Ø Job Retry: Automatically retries a failed job and reroutes jobs to alternate drives.

Ø Automated Alert Notification and SNMP Support: Framework console notification via Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes or SMTP e-mail, pager, printer, net send broadcast, and network monitoring applications.

Ø Cyclical Redundancy Check: Helps to ensure reliability with high-speed data verification.

Ø Device Pooling, Cascading and Dynamic Load Balancing: Maximizes backup/restore performance and facilitates job failover.

Ø Automated Media Management: Enables easy set-up of media formatting, labeling, tracking, rotation, defining of retention periods and catalog viewing.

Ø Automated Log Files and Disk/Catalog Grooming: Frees hard disk space from inactive files.

Ø Autoloader/Library Slot Partitioning: Allows backup jobs to be targeted to specific slots within a tape autoloader or library; mix drive types within a tape library.

Ø System Summary Screen: Provides administrators with a central, consolidated view of the Backup Exec server status simplifying job management.

Ø VERITAS Update: Checks the VERITAS website at user specified intervals for any available Backup Exec updates informing the user of the latest patches or hot fixes available.