Symantec Backup Exec™ 12.5
for Windows® Servers & Virtual Infrastructure

Symantec Backup Exec™ 12.5 delivers market-leading backup and recovery protection from server to desktop, providing complete data protection for the latest Windows Server® 2008 environments and support for VMware and Microsoft® Hyper-V virtual systems. With granular recovery features and continuous data protection for critical Microsoft applications, Symantec Backup Exec helps ensure that business-critical data is efficiently protected and can be quickly recovered— down to an individual email or document. Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 also delivers innovative multiproduct integration with Symantec Enterprise Vault™, Symantec™ ThreatCon security alert system, and the new Symantec Online Storage1 to simplify and enhance a company’s ability to secure, back up, and archive critical data. With innovative integration and comprehensive data protection for physical and virtual environments, Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 is the gold standard in Windows data protection.
Key Benefits
Optimized data protection through one console for physical and virtual systems, including VMware and Hyper-V virtual systems
- Microsoft certified backup and recovery for the entire Windows Server 2008 portfolio, ensuring complete support for critical Windows servers from day one
- Reduce storage requirements and recovery time with patent-pending granular data recovery of leading Microsoft applications, including Exchange, SharePoint®, and Active Directory®
- Prevent data loss on heterogeneous servers and maximize performance of supported Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) filers and storage area network (SAN) environments through scalable remote agents and options
- From one console, easily update and manage a growing Backup Exec infrastructure throughout a Windows data center, distributed throughout the network or at remote offices
- Eliminate the backup window and ensure recovery point objectives are easily met for Exchange, file servers, and SQL data with continuous data protection
- Integrated security, backup, and archive functionality, further providing complete data protection for growing businesses with Symantec multiproduct integration
New Features
- New Agent for VMware Virtual Infrastructure efficiently detects virtual systems and provides comprehensive data protection for unlimited VMware guest machines per ESX host environment and
efficiently restores individual files or an entire image from a single backup, saving time and storage costs.
- New Agent for Microsoft Virtual Servers protects unlimited guest systems running either Microsoft Hyper-V or Virtual Server 2005 SP1 host environment and provides efficient recovery of virtual files or an entire virtual server image from a single backup, reducing overall management time.
- New integrated data protection for Windows Essential Business Server 2008 allows administrators to easily manage Backup Exec job configuration and monitoring through a single Essential Business Server administrative console.
- Enhanced Agent for SharePoint Servers provides added flexibility to restore SharePoint documents, sites, and list items from a single-pass backup through patent-pending Granular Recovery Technology.
- New SQL 2008 support delivered in the Agent for SQL Servers provides point-in-time recovery and integrated support for file stream and SQL database compression.
- New Remote Media Server Agent for Linux Servers delivers storage flexibility. Linux® and Oracle® data can be directed to attached tape and disk storage resources to optimize and improve backup
performance for Linux environments.
- New Enhanced NDMP Option provides backup flexibility to protect NDMP-enabled NAS devices—Backup support for remote NDMP devices to the Backup Exec media server includes shared storage environments between Backup Exec media servers and NDMP-enabled devices.
- New Infrastructure Manager is powered by market-leading Altiris technology and allows administrators to easily inventory a Backup Exec environment to quickly locate both protected and unprotected systems, deploy new Backup Exec components to unprotected systems, and easily upgrade existing Backup Exec components to the latest version.
Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 Datasheet