Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery Linux Edition

Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery Linux Edition Overview

Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery 2010 Linux Edition enables you to restore complete Linux systems, volumes or individual files/folders in minutes to dramatically minimize downtime and disruption to your business. It provides image level backup of Linux system volumes through a command-line interface, including backup of system volumes, configurable compression and encryption.

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:

• Capture hot or cold recovery points of all the partitions and volumes on a Linux system
• Recover bare-metal systems, individual volumes or partitions
• Mount recovery points to restore granular items such as files or folders

Key Benefits:

• Manage your business not your backups with proactive data and system protection
• Quickly recover what you need, when you need it, including individual files, folders or complete systems
• Replace time-consuming manual and error-prone processes with fast, reliable, automated recovery to dramatically minimize downtime and avoid disaster
• Simplify IT administration by centrally managing backup tasks for multiple servers across your entire organization (via Backup Exec System Recovery Management Solution)

New Features:

Hot imaging of Linux Servers
Captures and protects the entire Linux system including the operating system, programs, files, folders and settings in one easy-to-manage recovery point.

• Includes configurable compression and encryption

Cold or Offline Backups
Lets you create recovery points of partitions and volumes without booting to Linux from your hard drive.

• Saves on backup time and storage consumption
• Recover Exchange mailboxes, folders, or individual messages with any associated attachments – without requiring full mailbox backups

Rapid, Reliable Recovery Capabilities
Recover a file system partition or an entire drive.

• Recover from system loss or disasters in minutes, not hours, or days
• Meet strict recovery time objectives (RTOs)

Granular File or Folder Recovery
Mount a recovery point to restore individual files, folders and documents.

• Flexible recovery capabilities enable you to recover the exact files you need without a full system restoration

Linux Symantec Recovery Disk Creation Tool
Simplifies and speeds system recovery by allowing IT administrators to build their own recovery environment. Creates an ISO file which you can burn to a CD or DVD.

• Symantec Recovery Disk CD lets you start a computer that can no longer run the Linux operating system

Backup Exec System Recovery Management Solution
Backup Exec System Recovery Management Solution is a highly scalable centralized management solution designed to add rapid backup and recovery to the new Symantec Management Platform.

• Create, edit, and distribute backup jobs, policies, installation packages, upgrade packages, and client settings
• Discover unprotected clients with remote client discovery
• Manage 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

System Requirements:

Operating Systems

Operating Systems Supported for Backup Exec System Recovery Linux Edition:

• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, SP1 and SP2 (x86) 32-bit
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, SP1 and SP2 (x86_64 not ia64) 64-bit
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 (x86) 32-bit
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 (x86_64 not ia64) 64-bit

RAM

The following are the memory requirements for SUSE Linux, Red Hat Linux, and the Symantec Recovery Disk:

• SUSE Linux: 256 MB
• Red Hat Linux: 256 MB
• Symantec Recovery Disk: 1 GB minimum (dedicated)
• If you create a Symantec Recovery Disk, 512 MB minimum (dedicated) is required

Available hard disk space

The Backup Exec System Recovery for Linux installation requires 30 MB of disk space. If you intend to install and use the option for extracting and creating a Symantec Recovery Disk, you should have at least 200 MB of disk space. You should have sufficient hard disk space on a local hard disk or network server for storing recovery points. Be aware that the file sizes of resulting recovery points are affected by the amount of data that you intend to back up.

CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive

The drive can be any speed, but it must be capable of being used as the startup drive from the BIOS.

Software

• The mount.v2i option uses Lib fuse (32-bit version). Currently, only Fuse 2.7.x is supported. Other versions of Fuse are not supported, but may work
• createSRD uses the squashfs-tools package on RHEL for creating RHEL Symantec Recovery Disks. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server requires mkcramfs, which is installed by default

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

Documentation:

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