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Product Information

Symantec System Recovery 2011 (formerly Backup Exec System Recovery) delivers fast and reliable complete system recovery, across physical and virtual environments. Backup and restore systems anywhere - even to bare metal, dissimilar hardware, remote locations, or virtual environments through Symantec’s patented Restore Anyware technology. Symantec System Recovery 2011 is a natural add-on to any data protection solution and it provides painless disaster recovery of Windows and Linux systems.

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New Features

What's new in Symantec System Recovery 2011?

New support for:

• Microsoft Exchange 2010 SP1
• SharePoint 2010
• SQL 2008 R2
• Windows 7 SP1, Vista SP3
• VMware vSphere 4.1
• Citrix XenServer 5.5
• VMware ESX 3.5 update 5
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP3, 11
• RedHat Linux 5.4, 5.5 & 6.0

New Support for Symantec System Recovery Management Solution

• The Symantec System Recovery Management Solution is a highly scalable centralised management solution designed to centrally manage up to 2,500 Symantec System Recovery clients from a single management server. It can be installed to and hosted on a Windows 2008 R2 64-bit server.

Enhanced Recovery Wizard

With new wizard functionality, you can now create an all-in-one backup and recovery USB device to boot and recover your system. This new functionality will provide administrators with the ability to transform a USB device into a bootable Symantec Recovery Disk device and backup destination to help reduce boot time.

New Symantec Recovery Disk Source

You can now select an .ISO image as the source for a custom recovery disk. Providing additional flexibility, this new capability helps speed up the recovery process.

Features

Key features

Please note, many of the features listed below are edition-specific.

Fast, automated system recovery and flexible restoration options

• Quickly restore physical and virtual systems from local or off-site destinations in minutes, even to dissimilar hardware, remote locations, or virtual environments with Symantec’s patented Restore Anyware technology.
• Off-site copy functionality enables you to automatically copy recovery points to external drives, network shares, or even remote FTP servers.
• Easily restore a system from a remote location without physically visiting the system to perform the restore with Symantec's patented LightsOut Restore technology.
• The fully customisable Symantec Recovery Disk auto-detects hardware and loads the appropriate drivers to boot the system resulting in faster recoveries.
• Hot imaging combines with the ability to restore to different hardware platforms on the fly and breaks the barrier of incompatible storage controllers and hardware abstraction layers.
• NEW! With new wizard functionality, create an all-in-one backup and recovery USB device to rapidly boot and recover your system.
• NEW! Select an .ISO image as the source for a custom recovery disk.

Advanced virtualisation capabilities

• Perform seamless and automated physical to virtual (P2V) and virtual to physical (V2P) conversions through an easy to use wizard driven interface for immediate system recovery.
• Automatically upload VMware virtual disk files (VMDK) converted from recovery points directly to VMware ESX hosts.
• Simplifies testing and migrations—perform preflight testing of patches, application installations, configuration changes, or driver updates in a virtual environment before applying changes to production systems.
• Protect all virtual machines on a single hypervisor system using a single license of Symantec System Recovery Virtual Edition, reducing costs and simplifying the licensing of Symantec System Recovery in virtual environments.
• Support for the latest virtual environments including VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Citrix XenServer.

Granular recovery of Exchange, SharePoint, Files and Folders

• Quickly recover Microsoft Exchange mailboxes, folders, individual messages or attachments in seconds—without the need for mailbox backups.
• Easily recover SharePoint documents from a single system recovery point.
• Restore files and folders in seconds with the ability to search multiple recovery points at the same time.
• The Symantec System Recovery Granular Restore Option is included at no additional charge.

Advanced backup scheduling and security

• Integrated data reduction technologies, including SmartSector and compression, help speed up the backup process and reduce storage costs, backup windows and network traffic.
• Schedule backups to run automatically, including event-triggered backups, based on the parameters you specify without disrupting user or employee productivity.
• Capture a backup of a system in a pre-boot state, without having to install any software on the system with cold imaging technology.
• Capture and protect the entire system, including the operating system, applications, databases, all files, device drivers, profiles, settings, and registry or individual files and folders in one easy-to-manage recovery point.
• Easily schedule the conversion of physical recovery points (backups) to virtual systems.
• Back up selective files and folders on a separate schedule than a full system backup.
• Save recovery points to almost any disk storage device, including direct-attached storage; USB and FireWire drives and network storage; NAS and SAN devices and optical devices, CD, DVD and Blu-ray.
• Built-in AES software encryption of backups both in flight and at rest ensures the security of critical business data.

Centralised management

• Centrally deploy, configure and manage Symantec System Recovery across your organisation.
• Create, edit and distribute backup jobs and client settings and client licensing policies.
• Monitor the current protection status of all managed systems with the at-a-glance consolidated Home Page view.
• Monitor local and network backup destination usage and historical trends.
• And more.

Powerful reporting

• Simplify the tracking of your environment with powerful preset reports.
• Export reports to .csv, .html, Excel spreadsheet, or .xml formats for easy distribution.
• Easily view your past, current, and scheduled backup and recovery jobs.

Note - not all features are available in all versions.

Editions

Desktop Edition

Symantec System Recovery 2011 Desktop Edition is a simple, cost-effective backup and recovery solution for small businesses that helps minimise 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.

Small Business Server Edition

Symantec System Recovery 2011 Small Business Server Edition is a simple, cost-effective backup and recovery solution for Microsoft Windows Small Business Servers that helps minimise downtime and avoid disaster by easily recovering individual data files/folders or complete Windows systems in minutes –– even to different hardware, virtual environments, or remote locations.

Server Edition

Symantec System Recovery 2011 Server Edition is a simple, cost-effective backup and recovery solution for Microsoft Windows Server that helps minimise downtime and avoid disaster by easily recovering individual data files/folders or complete Windows systems in minutes – not hours or days – even to different hardware, virtual environments, or remote locations.

Virtual Edition

Symantec System Recovery 2011 Virtual Edition is a simple, cost-effective backup and recovery solution that enables you to easily recover data files/folders or complete systems in minutes. With a single license you can protect an unlimited number of Windows virtual guest machines per host.

Linux Edition

Symantec System Recovery 2011 Linux Edition enables you to restore complete Linux systems, volumes or individual files/folders in minutes to dramatically minimise 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.