New Features
Certified backup and recovery for Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Certified backup and recovery for the latest Windows Server 2008 release including support for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Core Server, ensuring complete data protection and system recovery for Windows-based businesses.
- Optimized Windows Server 2008 data protection support from day one
- Exclusive use of Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS) snapshot integrations for faster backup performance
- Protection for failover clustering providing fast, efficient backup and recovery
- Advanced disaster recovery for Windows Server 2008 with the enhancedlatest Backup Exec System Recovery Option
- Proven, trusted data and system protection for the Windows 2008 organizations
Backup Exec Agent for Enterprise Vault ensures valuable data archives are backed up and easily recoverable
Backup Exec Agent for Enterprise Vault delivers full data and application protection of Enterprise Vault including Directory Database, Partitions or Vault Stores and Indexes.
- Provides complete data protection and simplified recovery of Enterprise Vault archives
- Ensures your business critical archives are always available.
Symantec Online Storage integration provides a secure, cost efficient, easy to manage off-site storage location
Backup Exec 12 provides users with a new integrated offsite storage option to Symantec Protection Network (SPN) data centers offering customers the flexibility and additional protection of backing up their data via Disk- to- SPN. The Online Storage integration is a cost efficient, easy to manage off-site backup configuration through the Backup Exec Media Server providing encrypted transport to SPN destinations to ensure complete protection and compliance.
- Eliminates the headache of maintaining and configuring new offsite storage hardware.
- Features simple manageability through the Backup Exec console
- Provides flexible, subscription based, off-site data protection for enhanced storage options
Symantec Endpoint Protection integration proactively backs up critical databases to further protect data from crippling virus outbreaks
Customers running Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) and Backup Exec 12 can now easily view an up-to-date security summary of threats and outbreaks through Backup Exec 12 console. Plus organizations can set automated proactive backup s based triggered by a specific Symantec ThreatCon levels to further protect data from security threats.
- Set automated ThreatCon triggered backup jobs through the Backup Exec console
- Ensure a backup of "uninfected" of business data can be recovered in the event of a virus or malware attack
- View up to the minute Symantec Endpoint Protection security alerts through the Backup Exec console
Enhanced Granular Recovery Technology to recover critical Microsoft application data in seconds
Backup Exec delivers innovative Granular Recovery Technology for Exchange, Active Directory and SharePoint servers allowing users to recover individual emails, user attributes or documents in seconds from a single backup. Now with Backup Exec 12 Granular Recovery backup jobs can be easily stored to a remote or removable disk drive, or off to a fiber channel or iSCSI SAN environment.
- Supports remote and removable backup-to-disk locations, Off-host support, and disk space management
- Provides flexible backup configurations and faster, less impact, off-host options
- Supports high-performance backup and granular recovery of critical data
Expanded platform support
Backup Exec 12 expands data protection for IBM, and Mac and Microsoft environments to ensure complete backup and recovery of critical business data through high powered Backup Exec remote Agents and Options
- Optimized data protection for Microsoft Virtual Server SP1
- Delivers complete backup and recovery support for Lotus Domino 8
- Provides data protection support for Mac OS X 10.5 environments
- Provides NDMP support for IBM N-Series Filters for flexible, efficient storage options
Out-of-the-Box protection
Backup Exec 12 now comes standard with Open File protection and disaster recovery support for every Media Server and Agent for Windows System license, providing complete data and system protection for growing Windows environments.
- Advanced Open File Option (AOFO) included with a Media Server or Agent for Windows System license
- Intelligent Disaster Recovery (AOFO) included with a Media Server or Agent for Windows System license
