Symantec System Recovery Desktop 2013 R2 21338922 User Manual

• The fully customizable Symantec Recovery Disk auto-

detects hardware and loads the appropriate drivers to boot
the system resulting in faster recoveries.

• Hot imaging combines with the ability to restore to

different hardware platforms on the fly and breaks the
barrier of incompatible storage controllers and hardware
abstraction layers.

• Create an all-in-one backup and recovery USB device to

rapidly boot and recover any system.

• Option to create 32 bit and 64 bit recovery disk at one go
• Backup and Recovery of Advanced Disk Format (4K)
• Option to create universal recovery disk on USB media to

recover BIOS and EFI systems

• Integrates with VMware® Application Programming

Interfaces (APIs) for Data Protection (VADP) and Microsoft®
Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS).

• Leverages the power of virtulaization for seamless and

automated P2V through an easy-to- use wizard driven
interface.

• Automatically uploads VMware virtual disk files (VMDK)

converted from recovery points directly to VMware ESX®
hosts.

• Simplifies testing and migrations—perform preflight

testing of patches, application installations, configuration
changes, or driver updates in a virtual environment before
applying changes to production systems.

• Protects all virtual machines on a single hypervisor system

with a single license of Symantec™ System Recovery Virtual
Edition.

• Supports for the latest virtual environments including

VMware, Hyper-V, and Citrix XenServer.

• Easily schedules the conversion of physical recovery points

(backups) to virtual systems (P2V).

• Schedule backups to run automatically, including event

triggered backups, based on the parameters the
administrator specifies without disrupting user or
employee productivity.

• Captures a backup of a system in a pre-boot state, without

having to install any software on the system with cold
imaging technology.

• Captures and protects the entire system, including the

operating system, applications, databases, all files, device
drivers, profiles, settings, and registry or individual files
and folders in one easy-to-manage recovery point.

• Ability to back up selective files and folders on a separate

schedule than a full system backup.

• Saves recovery points to almost any disk storage device,

including direct-attached storage; USB and FireWire drives
and network storage; Network Attached Storage (NAS) and
Storage Attached Network (SAN) devices and optical
devices, CD, DVD, and Blu-ray.

• Built-in AES software encryption of backups both in flight

and at rest ensures the security of critical business data.

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Increase the speed of
backup jobs and
reduce data backup
storage with
integrated
SmartSector™ and
compression
technologies.
SmartSector
technology speeds
up the backup
process by copying
only the hard-disksectors that contain data and compression
technology reduces the size of the backup file by storing the
same amount of data in fewer bits.

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Symantec System Recovery features an intuitive user
friendly interface, which incorporates automated best practice
decision making and reporting, centralized management
(Symantec™ System Recovery Management Solution),
designed to manage up to 10,000 Symantec System Recovery

Data Sheet: Backup and Disaster Recovery
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