Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery Desktop Edition

Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery Desktop Edition Overview

Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery 2010 Desktop Edition is a simple, cost-effective backup and recovery solution for small businesses that helps minimize downtime and avoid disaster by easily recovering individual data files/folders or complete Windows desktops or laptops in minutes – not hours or days – even to different hardware, virtual environments, or remote locations.

It is the perfect standalone solution for small business customers with 1 – 4 Windows servers and can scale to larger Windows environments as well, working in conjunction with Symantec Backup Exec™.

Backup Exec System Recovery 2010 captures a recovery point of the entire live Windows system. Included is the OS, applications, system settings, configurations, files, and so forth without impacting productivity. The recovery point can be conveniently saved to various media or disk storage devices including SAN, NAS, Direct Attached Storage, RAID, Blu-ray/DVD/CD, and so forth. When systems fail, you can quickly restore them without the need for manual, lengthy, and error prone processes.

Feature and Benefits:

Key Features:

• Backup desktops and laptops automatically, without disrupting employee productivity, and save to any disk storage device
• Recover complete systems in minutes to same or dissimilar hardware with Restore Anyware Technology, including support for Windows 7
• Restore individual files and folders in seconds using the built-in search tool or Google Desktop
• Enables offsite Backup Copy to FTP location or secondary disk drive for enhanced disaster recovery capabilities

Key Benefits:

• Recover what you need, when and where you need it, including individual files, folders or complete systems in minutes, even to dissimilar hardware or virtual environments
• Manage your business not your backups with proactive data and system protection, all from an easy-to-use, wizard-driven interface
• Replace time-consuming, manual and error-prone processes with fast, reliable, automated recovery to dramatically minimize downtime and avoid disaster
• Centrally manage backup and recovery tasks for multiple desktops/laptops across your entire organization (via Backup Exec System Recovery Manager)

New Features:

Windows 7 Support
Support for Microsoft’s latest Server Operating System, including Restore Anyware technology for dissimilar hardware and P2V restoration

• Full system backup and recovery of the latest Microsoft operating systems
• Allows organizations who are moving to these new environments to ensure that their systems are enabled for rapid recovery of systems and data

Backup Exec System Recovery Management Solution
Backup Exec System Recovery Management Solution is a highly scalable centralized management solution designed to add rapid Windows backup and recovery to the new Symantec Management Platform. Centrally manage system backup and recovery operations for Backup Exec System Recovery 2010, 8.5 and 8.0 as well as Backup Exec System Recovery Linux Edition.

• Create, edit, and distribute backup jobs, policies, installation packages, upgrade packages, and client settings
• Discover unprotected clients with remote client discovery
• Enables remote recovery of volumes or complete systems
• Manage physical to virtual conversions, off-site copy capabilities and backup destination monitoring from a central location
• Advanced reporting and management capabilities via integration with the Symantec Management Platform
• Supports both Windows and Linux editions of Backup Exec System Recovery

Enhanced Virtual Environment Support
Supports the latest virtual environments including VMware vSphere 4.0, Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 and Citrix XenServer 5.x.

• Convert backup images to VMware and Hyper-V virtual formats
• Converted VMDK’s are now uploaded/imported in a single step and include improved performance capabilities
• Converted VHD files can be stored directly to Hyper-V instance

Key Continuing Capabilities

Revolutionary, Simple User Interface
Calendar view shows past, present and future recovery points and the protection level for each volume on the system, including backed up, attention needed or at risk.

• Simple, Easy-To-Use
• Incorporates Automated Best Practice Decision Making and Reporting

Flexible Data Recovery Capabilities
Backup Exec System Recovery Desktop Edition delivers many data recovery capabilities, simplifying the recovery of individual files and folders. Features include:

• Recovers individual files and folders in seconds from either recovery points or file/folder backups
• Enables end-user recovery of files and folders via Google Desktop or Backup Exec Retrieve using a common web-browser interface for fast and simple recovery, without IT intervention

Dissimilar Hardware Restoration with Restore Anyware
Combines hot-imaging with the ability to restore to different hardware platforms on the fly thereby reducing recovery times and saving significant hardware investments.

• Eliminates the need to manually reinstall and reconfigure operating systems, applications, settings and preferences.

Schedule Physical to Virtual System Conversions
IT Administrators can set a schedule for having their physical recovery points (backups) converted to virtual systems through an easy to use, wizard driven interface. Convert entire systems at once or select volumes at a time.

• Enables immediate system recovery
• Converted virtual disks can be stored directly to ESX and Hyper-V servers
• Enables local or site-to-site ‘warm failover’

Offsite Backup Copy
Automatically copy recovery points (backups) to a remote server using FTP or to an external hard drive or network share to enhance your disaster recovery efforts.

• Select up to two offsite destinations
• Works quietly in the background with no noticeable effect on your computer’s performance

Symantec ThreatCon Integration
Easily configure Backup Exec System Recovery to automatically run a backup when the Symantec ThreatCon level reaches or exceeds the level specified. This feature ties directly into Symantec's global DeepSite ThreatCon infrastructure.

Customizable Symantec Recovery Disk
Simplifies and speeds system recovery by allowing IT administrators to build their own recovery environment with drivers unique to their hardware needs. It automatically harvests system drivers from the system on which the customizable SRD is being created. It also allows for manual inclusion of additional 3rd party drivers with the ability to burn to CD or .iso format.

Customizable Event Driven Recovery Points
Allows users to specify executable(s) or .com files for which recovery points should be triggered. Users can also select to automatically capture recovery points prior to application installation, user logon or logoff, and configurable storage utilization changes.

Cold Imaging Technology Provides Agentless Protection for Windows Systems
Enables IT Administrators to capture a backup of a system in a pre-boot state and without having to install any software on the system.

• Backup non-bootable or corrupt file systems
• Offers an additional level of protection for computer systems

System Requirements:

Operating Systems

Windows 32-bit or 64-bit operating systems:

• Windows Vista Ultimate
• Windows Vista Business
• Windows Vista Enterprise
• Windows XP Professional/Home (SP2 or later)
• Windows XP Media Center
• Windows 7 Ultimate
• Windows 7 Enterprise
• Windows 7 Professional

Processor

• 233 MHz or greater, as required by the operating system

RAM

Memory requirements per key components:

• Backup Exec System Recovery Agent: 512 MB
• Backup Exec System Recovery user interface and Recovery Point Browser: 512 MB
• Symantec Recovery Disk: 1 GB minimum (dedicated)
• Backup Exec System Recovery LightsOut Restore feature: 1 GB

Available hard disk space

When installing the entire product: Up to 430MB, depending on the language of the product you are installing

• Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0: 280 MB of hard disk space required for 32-bit computers, and 610 MB for 64-bit computers
• Recovery points: Sufficient hard disk space on a local hard disk or network server for storing recovery points
• Backup Exec System Recovery LightsOut Restore feature: 2 GB

CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive

The drive can be any speed, but must be bootable from the BIOS in order to boot the Symantec Recovery Disk CD-ROM. Backup Exec System Recovery uses Gear Software technology. To verify that your CD writer or DVD writer is compatible, visit http://www.gearsoftware.com/support/recorders/index.cfm. You can look up information about your writer if you know the name of the manufacturer and model number of your writer.

Software

• The .NET Framework 2.0 is required to run Backup Exec System Recovery. If the .NET Framework is not already installed, you will be prompted to install it once Backup Exec System Recovery is installed and your computer is rebooted
• Additionally, Microsoft Outlook 2003 or 2007 is required for granular Exchange recovery

Virtual platforms (for converted recovery points)

• VMware vSphere 4.0
• VMware ESXi 3.5 and 4.0
• VMware ESX 3.0, 3.5 and 4.0
• VMware Server 1.0 and 2.0
• VMware Workstation 4, 5, and 6
• Microsoft Hyper-V 1.0 and Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
• Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 and later
• Citrix XenServer 4.x and 5.x

Backup Exec System Recovery 2010 Management Solution

Processor

• Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.0 GHz or faster

RAM

• 2 GM or more

Available hard disk space

• 20 GB or more

Software
The following must be installed on the computer on which you want to install Backup Exec System Recovery 2010 Management Solution:

• 32-bit versions of Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2, Enterprise Edition, or Standard Edition
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (must be installed before you can install Symantec Installation Manager).
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition is included on the Backup Exec System Recovery 2010 Management Solution media. Symantec recommends that you install Microsoft SQL Server on a computer separate from the one on which you install Backup Exec System Recovery 2010 Management Solution.
• Microsoft Internet Information Services
• Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5
• Microsoft ASP.NET
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 or later
• Microsoft Silverlight 3.0 or later
• Symantec Installation Manager
• Symantec Management Platform

Note: Installation of Backup Exec System Recovery 2010 Management Solution is not supported on encrypted file systems. High speed Internet access is recommended at the computer where you install Backup Exec System Recovery 2010 Management Solution.

DVD-ROM drive

• Required for installation

Screenshots:

Home Page
The client user interface in Backup Exec System Recovery is very easy to use and incorporates an at a glance view of the system’s status such as: Backed Up, Attention Needed or At Risk.

Status Page
The Status page gives the user the ability to display a calendar view of backup jobs and the status of each.

Tasks Page
The Tasks page options are divided into frequently used backup, recovery and conversion tasks that can be quickly accessed. The user can run, define, or edit an existing backup or create a one-time backup without saving the job for future use. From here you can also recover a computer or individual files or define and run a virtual conversion job or perform a one-time conversion.

Symantec Recovery Disk
The Symantec Recovery Disk (SRD) is used to boot a computer into the recovery environment. If a computer's operating system fails, use the SRD to recover the system from this easy to use interface.

Backup Exec System Recovery Management Solution Home Page
Provides an at-a-glance view of backup and recovery status for computers you are centrally managing including backed up, attention needed, at risk or not reporting.

Documentation:

Download the Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery Datasheet (PDF).