Features

                Benefits

Windows Compatibility

Support for Microsoft Windows Servers, including System State and Shadow Copy components

Microsoft certified support for Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 helps reduce costs, deployment time and ensure compatibility and reliability, protecting all operating system information including Active Directory of local or remote servers and workstations.

Full Windows File System Support

Windows 2000 and or Windows Server 2003 File System Support for FAT 16/32, VFAT, NTFS, CDFS, and UDF including Macintosh and POSIX file systems delivers maximum flexibility for diverse client support.

Cluster Configuration Wizard

Eases installation and configuration of Backup Exec in a Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS) environment and provides automatic cascading failover for up to 8-node clusters and also protects clustered applications running on the Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS).

Microsoft Tape Format Read/Write

Allows the interchange of media with the Windows Server backup applet.

NEW! Microsoft Operations Manager Support

Integrates with Microsoft Operations Manager can proactively monitor and manage Backup Exec servers through the Microsoft Operations Manager – Management Pack.

Flexibility and Ease of Use

Graphical User Interface / Administration Console

Provides a simple, intuitive browser-like console for ease of use, allowing customization of the columns, layout and type of information to be displayed.

NEW! Central Admin Server Option

Centralizes management and monitoring of multiple Backup Exec servers across a distributed network or in remote offices, centralizing administration, job processing, and load balancing.

NEW! Policies

Provide a simple, logical method for managing backup jobs and strategies. Policies contain job templates, which have job attributes that define how and when Backup Exec processes a job.

NEW! Remote Agent for Linux and UNIX servers

Provides high performance network-wide data protection for 32 and 64-bit remote Linux and UNIX servers.

ENHANCED! Desktop and Laptop Option

Simplifies desktop and laptop data protection with simplified deployment and support for Outlook 2003.

Support for Remote 64-bit Windows Systems

Provides high performance network backup of Intel 64-bit remote systems.

Support for Exchange Server 2003

Leverages Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Volume Snapshot (VSS) technology enabling users to select either the VERITAS or the Microsoft proprietary snapshot technology for protecting open files.

Support for SQL 64-bit Servers

Delivers fast, dependable method for complete SQL Server protection on 32 or 64-bit servers.

Support for Microsoft Storage Server 2003

Transforms Microsoft Storage Server 2003 NAS appliances into a complete storage solution that is easy to manage and inexpensive to maintain. Integrates into the Microsoft web administration console.

ENHANCED! Support for Oracle 10g

Provides non-disruptive data protection for business-critical Oracle 10g, 9i, 8i, and 8.x databases

Task Wizards

Simplifies installation, setup, backup, recovery, media management, disaster preparation, cluster installation and agent configuration.

Backup via Specified Backup Network using Secondary NIC

Helps reduces LAN traffic by isolating backup and restore operations to a sub-network.

Job Retry

Speeds execution of a complete local system backup without having to define a backup job.

Outlook-style Calendar Based Job Scheduler

Simplifies job scheduling and management of backup operations.

NEW! Environment Check

Improves installations with new utility that runs before Backup Exec is installed and checks if the media server has the proper system environment (operating system version, service packs, etc.) and checks 3rd party application versions.

Job Retry

Automatically retries a failed job and reroutes jobs to alternate drives.

Automated Alert Notification and SNMP Support

Framework console notification via Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes or SMTP e-mail, pager, printer, net send broadcast, and network monitoring applications.

Cyclical Redundancy Check

Helps to ensure reliability with high-speed data verification.

Advanced Device and Media Management

NEW! Advanced Disk-based Backup Option

Now offers fastest disk-based recovery, with Synthetic and Off-Host backups to perform zero impact backups and fast restores

Device Pooling, Cascading and Dynamic Load Balancing

Maximizes backup/restore performance and facilitates job failover.

Automated Media Management

Enables easy set-up of media formatting, labeling, tracking, rotation, defining of retention periods and catalog viewing.

Automated Log Files and Disk/Catalog Grooming

Frees hard disk space from inactive files.

Autoloader/Library Slot Partitioning

Allows backup jobs to be targeted to specific slots within a tape autoloader or library; mix drive types within a tape library.

System Summary Screen

Provides administrators with a central, consolidated view of the Backup Exec server status simplifying job management.

VERITAS Update

Checks the VERITAS website at user specified intervals for any available Backup Exec updates informing the user of the latest patches or hot fixes available.