Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery 8.5 Desktop Edition enables you to restore complete Windows desktop/laptops in minutes, even to dissimilar hardware or virtual environments with new functionality to automate physical to virtual conversions for immediate system recovery. Additional capabilities include flexible offsite protection; integration with Symantec ThreatCon for threat-triggered backups and centralized management to help simplify administration.

Key Features

• Recover in minutes to same hardware, dissimilar hardware or virtual environments with Restore Anyware technology
• Create real-time, while-you-work recovery points of the entire system and save to any disk-storage device
• Enables offsite backup copy to an FTP location or secondary disk drive for enhanced disaster recovery capabilities
• Search and retrieve files and folders in seconds via Google Desktop or Backup Exec Retrieve

Key Benefits

• Rapid and reliable system recovery even from a bare-metal state, without the need to reinstall and reconfigure operating systems, applications, system settings, and preferences.
• Eliminate backup windows by capturing the entire live Windows system, without disrupting user productivity or application usage
• Simplifies and extends your data and disaster recovery capabilities
• Centrally manage backup and recovery tasks for multiple desktops/laptops across your entire organization (via Backup Exec System Recovery Manager)

New Features
Innovative technologies in Backup Exec System Recovery enable you to recover complete Windows systems in minutes, not hours or days, making Backup Exec System Recovery the gold standard in complete Windows system recovery

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

Pre-boot, 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
• Enhanced forensics support for eDiscovery or post-mortem system analysis
• Backup and recover systems in secure or locked-down configurations

Schedule physical to virtual system conversions
IT Administrators can now set a schedule for having their physical recovery points (backups) converted to virtual systems through an easy to use, wizard driven interface.

• Enables Immediate System Recovery through Scheduled P2V Conversions
• Converted virtual disks can be stored directly to ESX and Hyper-V servers
• Enables local or site-to-site ‘warm failover’

Enhanced Virtual Environment Support
Supports the latest virtual environments including VMware ESX 3.5, Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer 4.x

• Converted VMDK’s are now uploaded/imported in a single step and include improved performance capabilities
• Support for the new Microsoft hypervisor including the ability to protect Hyper-V virtual machines
• Converted VHD files can be stored directly to Hyper-V instance

Key Continuing Capabilities

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.

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

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

USB Drive Identification
Backup Exec System Recovery intelligently and uniquely communicates to USB drives, running backup jobs to the given device even if the drive letter changes.

Dissimilar Hardware Restoration with Restore Anyware
Rapid recovery of entire systems to dissimilar hardware breaks the barrier of incompatible storage controllers and hardware abstraction layers, thereby reducing recovery times and saving significant hardware investments. Combines hot-imaging with the ability to restore to different hardware platforms on the fly.

• NIC driver retargeting supports hardware-independent NIC drivers
• Perform complete hardware migrations with ease using Restore Anyware

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.

Product Screenshots:

Backup Exec System Recovery Manager Home page

Backup Exec System Recovery Manager 7.0 Home Page. The Home Page dashboard displays four panes that give an at-a-glance, high-level view of the status, hot spots, statistics, and trends on the network.

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.

Tasks page

The Tasks page options are divided into frequently used backup and recovery 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.

Status page

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

Client 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, Partially Protected or At Risk