Symantec Backup Exec 2012 Windows Servers 21218005 User Manual

Symantec Backup Exec™ 2012

Better backup for all

Data Sheet: Backup and Disaster Recovery

Symantec Backup Exec™ 2012 is one integrated product that protects virtual and physical environments, simplifies both
backup and disaster recovery, and recovers data or systems at any scale, from an individual item to an entire server. Reduce
business downtime with unparalleled recovery, powered by Symantec™ V-Ray technology, that restores entire servers, critical
Microsoft® applications, and VMware® or Microsoft Hyper-V® virtual guests. Meet your recovery point and recovery time
objectives with integrated bare metal, hardware-independent disaster recovery, “no-hardware disaster recovery” in a virtual
environment, application recovery, and efficient granular restore of individual emails, files, and folders. Simultaneously reduce
storage costs and increase backup speed with deduplication and archiving.

Backup Exec 2012 delivers centralized management to easily extend your backup infrastructure across distributed
environments and remote offices so physical or virtual server protection is easily managed as your business grows. With a sleek
and streamlined administration console, Backup Exec 2012 makes it easier than ever to efficiently manage backup and
recovery operations across your physical and virtual infrastructure. Backup Exec 2012 efficiently delivers advanced capabilities
for VMware, Hyper-V, Windows®, Linux®, and Mac® backup and recovery, for both simple and complex IT environments.

• Protect your virtual infrastructure with VMware and Hyper-V backup and recovery from the experts in virtual backup. Host-

level backup, powered by V-Ray technology and integrated with VMware Data Protection APIs (application programming
interfaces) and Microsoft® Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS), enables backup of entire virtual guests and recovery at the
virtual machine, virtual disk, application, and file/folder level. Advanced hypervisor features are also supported with both
VMware and Hyper-V. Virtualized applications are supported too—backup and recover granular data from virtualized
Microsoft® Exchange, SharePoint®, Active Directory®, and SQL Server® applications.

• Agentless or agent-based virtual protection Backup Exec 2012 gives you the flexibility to choose the level of recoverability

you need in your VMware or Hyper-V environment. If you use an agent, you can backup and recover virtualized applications
and restore files, folders, application data, and entire virtual machines. If you choose to go agentless, you can recover the
entire virtual machine, ensuring protection at the virtual machine level. Backup Exec 2012 makes it easy to optimize
VMware and Hyper-V backup to achieve the right blend of virtual machine performance and recoverability.

• Microsoft certified backup and recovery for the latest Windows environments and applications, including Windows 2008

R2®, Exchange 2010 SP1, SQL Server, and SharePoint.

• Comprehensive disk and tape storage for virtual, physical, and application backup.
• Reduce storage by up to 90 percent with deduplication, lowering storage costs across all your physical

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while offering network bandwidth reduction for local area network (LAN) and wide area network (WAN) backup. Shrink your
backup storage requirements while making WAN-friendly remote office backup a reality. Deduplicate across all data

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Principled Technologies Test Report, "Backup Advantages of the Dell PowerVault DL Backup to Disk Appliance powered by Symantec Backup Exec 2010 R3" (June 2011)
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Principled Technologies Test Report, "Virtualized Backup Advantages of the Dell PowerVault DL Backup to Disk Appliance powered by Symantec Backup Exec 2010 R3"
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