Backup Exec data recovery

Symantec has released its latest Backup Exec product family to provide data and system recovery of virtual and physical systems as well as support for the Windows Server 2008 portfolio.

The company also adds Backup Exec systems management and enhanced storage flexibility for heterogeneous environments, allowing organisations to protect their data and systems as they grow.

The release allows organisations to protect their data and systems in a physical and virtual environment that provides data protection for VMware Infrastructure, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and conventional physical systems from a single console.

The package also reduces complexity by enabling users to backup an unlimited number of guest machines within a VMware ESX or Microsoft Hyper-V host environment to disk or tape from a single agent.

In addition, it adds granular recovery technology to provide individual file-level and image-level recovery from a single pass backup.

It has tight integration with VMware and Microsoft virtual management framework, allowing backup administrators to have a global view of their virtual environment within the administration interface.

Users also benefit from automated configuration and set-up of VMware Consolidated Backup without the need to create manual scripts. It provides flexible whole guest virtual system recovery including the ability to rename a virtual machine, change LAN configuration and optionally power-up guest machines following restore.

Complementary to Backup Exec, Backup Exec System Recovery 8.5 provides additional support for virtual environments. Recovery reduces system downtime by enabling organisations to immediately restore complete Windows systems in minutes, even to dissimilar hardware or virtual environments.

In addition, it helps users manage planned downtime by adding new functionality to schedule physical to virtual (P2V) system migrations. It also includes support for the latest virtual environments including VMware ESX 3.5, Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer 4.1, and will offer integration with the Altiris management platform to provide centralised backup and recovery of servers or desktops directly from the Altiris console.