Veritas System Recovery (ранее Symantec System Recovery Backup Exec)

The software of Veritas System Recovery (before Symantec System Recovery Backup Exec) — a backup system and disaster recovery of data. It is offered in three options.

The product also provides instruments of administration of processes of reservation and recovery on a set of computers of the organization — the free Veritas System Recovery Management Solution or Veritas System Recovery Monitor Solution components included in the package.

Desktop Edition

Veritas System Recovery Desktop Edition is a backup system and disaster recovery of notebooks and workstations. The solution is based on the patented Restore Anyware technology allowing IT administrators to recover quickly what is necessary when and where it is necessary — including system recovery entirely on the same or other equipment and also recovery of files, folders and separate subjects of applications. Thanks to Veritas System Recovery Desktop Edition of the organization can reduce a downtime and exclude breaks in work, capable to affect productivity of employees.

Main Features:

• Fast recovery of local and remote notebooks and desktop PCs, including from scratch and on other equipment.
• Recovery of files, folders and separate objects.
• Backup practically on any disk storage modules, including USB, FireWire, NAS, SAN and Blu-ray.
• Imperceptible automatic conversion of physical mediums to virtual (P2V) and virtual in physical (V2P).
• Copying and protection of all environment, including operating systems, applications, files, drivers of devices and other by creation of uniform recovery point using technology on the basis of images.
• Planning of processes of reservation for their automatic execution, including reservation at approach of certain events, without negative impact for work of users.
• The built-in enciphering using an algorithm of AES at storage and transfer of important business information.

Server Edition

Veritas System Recovery Server Edition is a backup system and disaster recovery servers Windows. The solution is based on the patented Restore Anyware technology allowing IT administrators to recover quickly what is necessary when and where it is necessary, including system recovery entirely on the same or other equipment and also recovery of files, folders and separate subjects of applications. Veritas System Recovery Server Edition also offers functions of cross-platform recovery — from a physical medium in virtual, from virtual in physical and between physical mediums.

Main Features:

• Fast and simple recovery of virtual and physical servers, both local, and external, including from scratch, on other equipment, in virtual environments or remote arrangements.
• Recovery of files, folders and separate objects.
• Creation of the external backup copy on the FTP server or the additional disk storage module for the optimized disaster recovery.
• Imperceptible automatic conversion of physical mediums to virtual (P2V) and virtual in physical (V2P).
• Copying and protection of all environment, including operating systems, applications, files, drivers of devices and other by creation of uniform recovery point using technology on the basis of images.
• Planning of processes of reservation for their automatic execution, including reservation at approach of certain events, without negative impact for work of users.
• The built-in enciphering using an algorithm of AES at storage and transfer of important business information.
• Honor backup on any disk storage device regardless of the manufacturer.
• Centralized operation and scaling within the organization.
• Reduction of storage costs, reduction of intervals of backup and network traffic thanks to integration of technologies of decrease in redundancy of data.

Virtual Edition

Veritas System Recovery Virtual Edition is a backup system and disaster recovery of virtual servers. The solution is based on the patented Restore Anyware technology allowing IT administrators to recover quickly what is necessary when and where it is necessary, including recovery of virtual machines entirely on the same or other equipment and also recovery of files, folders and separate subjects of applications. Veritas System Recovery Virtual Edition also offers functions of cross-platform recovery — from a physical medium in virtual, from virtual in physical and between physical mediums.

Main Features:

• Fast and simple recovery of virtual machines, both local, and external, including from scratch, on other equipment, in virtual environments or remote arrangements.
• Recovery of files, folders and separate objects.
• Creation of the external backup copy on the FTP server or the additional disk storage module for advanced disaster recovery.
• Imperceptible automatic conversion of physical mediums to virtual (P2V) and virtual in physical (V2P).
• Copying and protection of all environment, including operating systems, applications, files, drivers of devices and other by creation of uniform recovery point using technology on the basis of images.
• Planning of processes of reservation for their automatic execution, including reservation at approach of certain events, without negative impact for work of users.
• The built-in enciphering using an algorithm of AES at storage and transfer of important business information.
• Honor backup on any disk storage device regardless of the manufacturer.
• Centralized operation and scaling within the organization.
• Reduction of storage costs, reduction of intervals of backup and network traffic thanks to integration of technologies of decrease in redundancy of data.

Development History

2011

Symantec System Recovery Backup Exec 2010 R3

One of key features of the version of Backup Exec 2010 R3 is considerably the increased performance of operations on data backup in virtual environments. The integrated V-Ray technology will allow clients to study, recover and organize protection of virtual machines with the same ease with which they ensure safety of physical environments. The plug-in of Backup Exec Management Plug-in for VMware which now is a part of standard agency software for the VMware platform allows to manage the Backup Exec functions via the vCenter console.

Users of the version of Backup Exec 2010 are offered to estimate the additional level of protection which consists in data encryption, transferred from the agent to the server, using SSL technologies. Developers from Symantec also continue work on ensuring closer integration between the systems of archiving and backup. Backup Exec 2010 Agent for Enterprise Vault supports Enterprise Vault 10 beta storages now. Besides, the Backup Exec Archive Option for Exchange component includes the Virtual Vault function allowing users to address archive e-mail messages from the interface of the Outlook e-mail client.

Besides, according to the statement of the company, later this year the hardware version of the Backup Exec system and also the cloud solution of Symantec Backup Exec.cloud extended on a subscription which will be ideal for the small companies and remote branches of the large organizations, persons interested to minimize load of own IT infrastructure will for the first time be issued.

Symantec System Recovery Backup Exec 2010 V-Ray

Symantec announced in September, 2011 at the VMworld 2011 conference the updated technology of backup of virtual environments V-Ray for the solution Backup Exec 2010. The module will allow the organizations to improve control of the physical and virtual environments using a single system of backup, will help to save time and to lower load of a system. The latest version of Backup Exec 2010 will support the version of the VMware vSphere 5 platform preparing for release and also to be integrated with the solution Symantec ApplicationHA for forecasting and start of application recovery when the module ApplicationHA cannot eliminate failure of the application independently. Such integration, for the first time available in serial products, helps IT administrators to feel surely at expanded implementation of technologies of VMware as it leads to elimination of expensive idle times of the major applications in virtual environments. The V-Ray technology in the solution Backup Exec also includes a new feature of validation which allows administrators to fix with ease problems in backup by check of a possibility of correct recovery of backup copies of VMware due to integration into the administration console VMware vCenter™ Server.

"When case concerns backup, the enterprises should unify all processes based on one product for protection of physical and virtual environments to achieve the maximum economy stored of data and in expenses on management. Upgraded version of Backup Exec V-Ray technology offers a new feature of anticipatory recovery of environments of VMware, the integrated deduplication and automatic protection of backup copies for new guest machines that helps customers to reduce even more costs and to exclude idle times — Amit Walia, the vice president for production management of Backup Exec in Symantec corporation said — Now, with the integrated recovery tools for environments of VMware based on the solution ApplicationHA, the product Backup Exec opens a way to virtualization of the most crucial systems".

The V-Ray technology which is completely integrated into Backup Exec considerably facilitates process of data recovery and applications for the administrators who are responsible for backup and virtualization. New features of Backup Exec V-Ray technology provide the most informative overview of all backup copies so the administrator can select the whole set of backup copies or a separate object of the physical and virtual environments for recovery. For the first time the function of anticipatory recovery implemented in Backup Exec based on the solution Symantec ApplicationHA helps to reduce idle times of the major applications in environments of VMware and also offers new means of check of a possibility of recovery together with extensive support at the level of the platform and applications for the new VMware vSphere 5 platform planned to release.

"The V-Ray technology developed by Symantec provides to our general clients seamless integration and a possibility of the deepest control of virtual machines for optimal backup, security and the increased availability of environments of VMware — Parag Patel, the vice president of VMware company for work with partners says — the Last innovations which the Symantec company entered to Backup Exec V-Ray technology, bring considerable operating rooms and technical benefits and also guarantee that users will not need to apply separate solutions for backup of the physical and virtual systems — it helps to accelerate considerably implementation of virtualization and cloud computing without attempts to invent backup again".

Backup Exec 2010 has the certificate of VMware Ready and contains the newest means of backup and recovery for protection of environments of VMware:

• Support of VMware vSphere 5 from the moment of its release does a range of the platforms and applications supported by the solution Backup Exec to the widest.
• Function of anticipatory recovery in Backup Exec automatically starts recovery of any applications which are under control of this utility and failures in which it is not possible to eliminate automatically. Integration between Symantec Backup Exec and the solution Symantec ApplicationHA can be managed via the VMware vCenter Server console.
• The validator of V-Ray Virtual Machine Validator virtual machines allows to include the virtual machine copied using Backup Exec, directly from the backup copy to check a possibility of correct recovery via the VMware vCenter Server console.
• End-to-end control of virtual environments using V-Ray technology provides deduplication at all levels up to a source both in physical, and in virtual environment that provides additional economy at data storage.
• The technology of selective recovery V-Ray with Granular Recovery Technology undergoing now the procedure of obtaining the patent allows administrators easily and to quickly find and recover objects in the Exchange, SQL Server and Active Directory systems.
• The complete transparency provided by Backup Exec V-Ray technology provides automatic detection and backup of the new machines added to the environment of VMware.
• Backup Exec offers support of the broadest range of disk and tape carriers in storage infrastructures via the single console.

Symantec System Recovery 2011

April, 2011. The packet of System Recovery 2011 offers flexible and comprehensive approach to data recovery, systems and applications commercially, providing the minimum idle times for the physical and virtual systems. The strategy of Symantec company on reduction of idle times in work of the systems of customers found the implementation in a packet of System Recovery 2011 as an optimal combination of already known and most advanced technologies. In particular, the packet of System Recovery 2011 supports recovery on the changed equipment, "naked iron", remote platforms and in virtual environments. The Symantec Backup Exec component helps to get rid of planned windows of backup and also provides step-by-step recovery both for physical, and for virtual environments. The Symantec ApplicationHA technology which is initially intended for ensuring the increased availability of systems implements automatic monitoring and recovery of the virtual applications working under control of hypervisors of VMware.

It is worth referring creation of the universal UDB carrier for all problems of backup and data recovery to the most remarkable innovations of a packet of Symantec System Recovery 2011. The new master allows to turn the replaceable USB drive into the boot drive of Symantec System Recovery Disk combining possibilities of the drive for backup copies easily. With creation of such boot carrier the customer receives the universal USB device for all occasions – it will help to reduce load time of systems and to accelerate data recovery process.

The improved centralized operation in a packet of System Recovery 2011 initially was created counting on control of a large number of client computers from one managing server. The module of management of Symantec System Recovery Management can be set and placed for remote use in 64-bit environments based on the Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system now.

The upgraded master of recovery of disks with support of individual preference provides the increased flexibility – now during creation of the target recovering disk it is possible to specify earlier created ISO image on the hard drive as a source of the backup copy. Such opportunity will be especially useful to dl of large enterprises which already use individually modifed recovery disks Symantec System Recovery Disk and want to use them as a source for further modifications in the strategy of data recovery.

It is worth stopping separately on expanded support of target platforms: the packet of Symantec System Recovery 2011 supports the newest versions of operating systems Microsoft of Windows, Linux and also hypervisors of VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer.

The strategy offered Symantec for reduction of idle times of information systems includes an optimal combination of solutions which will help to recover effectively systems in case of failures:

• Symantec System Recovery provides complete recovery of a system within several minutes, even in case of use of the equipment, other than initial, from scratch, on remote servers or in virtual environments. All these technologies minimize a downtime of systems;
• Symantec Backup Exec helps to get rid of planned windows of backup and helps clients to solve problems of recovery by use of granular (step-by-step) recovery of physical or virtual environments.
• Symantec ApplicationHA implements automatic monitoring and recovery of the virtual applications working under control of hypervisors of VMware.