The System Recovery 2013 Desktop Edition from Symantec delivers backup and disaster recovery for desktops and laptops with a single unified solution that enables businesses to recover from downtime or disasters. With patented Restore Anyware technology, IT administrators can rapidly restore exactly what they need, when and where they need it, including entire physical and virtual machines to bare metal or dissimilar hardware as well as files, folders, and granular application objects. The Symantec System Recovery also provides cross-platform Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V), and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) recoveries, making it a complement to physical and virtual environments.
The System Recovery proactively protects desktops and laptops without disrupting employee productivity or IT services. The flexible recovery capabilities enable IT administrators to meet ambitious recovery time objectives (RTO), restore point objectives (RPO), and service-level agreements with ease. The System Recovery Edition is suitable for single server and can scale to larger environments when used in conjunction with the System Recovery Management Solution.
Key Benefits
Single unified image-based solution that protects both virtual and physical machines.
Backs up desktops and laptops automatically without disrupting user productivity.
Provides flexible and reliable recovery of data and systems.
Performs a full system restoration to a specific point in time entirely from bare metal and eliminates time-consuming and error-prone manual system rebuilds.
Seamless and automated P2V and V2P conversions.
Minimizes downtime and avoids business disruption.
Eliminates the need for duplicate hardware for disaster recovery purposes.
Reduces storage costs, backup windows, and network traffic with integrated data reduction technologies.
Backs up to almost any disk storage device regardless of provider.
Centralized management and enterprise scalability.
Updated support for Windows, Linux, VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Citrix XenServer operating systems and applications.
Automated and Flexible Restoration Options
Restores entire physical and virtual systems from local or off-site destinations in minutes, even to bare metal, dissimilar hardware, remote locations, or virtual environments, with patented Restore Anyware technology.
Restores files and folders while providing the ability to search multiple recovery points at the same time.
Rapidly recovers granular Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint objects including mailboxes, folders, individual messages, or attachments in seconds from a single pass backup.
Off-site copy functionality automatically copies recovery points to external drives, network shares, or even remote FTP servers.
Administrators can restore a system from a remote location without physically visiting the system to perform the restore function with patented LightsOut Restore technology.
The fully customizable 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 and overcomes the limitations of incompatible storage controllers and hardware abstraction layers.
Create an all-in-one backup and recovery USB device to rapidly boot and recover any system.
Option to select an ISO image as the source for a custom recovery disk.
Virtualization Capabilities
Integrates with VMware Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for Data Protection (VADP) and Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS).
Automatically uploads VMware virtual disk files (VMDK) converted from recovery points directly to VMware ESX hosts.
Simplifies testing and migrations, performs preflight testing of patches, application installations, configuration changes, or driver updates in a virtual environment before applying changes to production systems.
Protects all virtual machines on a single hypervisor system with a single license of Symantec System Recovery Virtual Edition.
Backup Scheduling and AES Security
Schedules the conversion of physical recovery points (backups) to virtual systems (P2V).
Schedule backups to run automatically, including event-triggered backups, based on the parameters the administrator specifies without disrupting user or employee productivity.
Backs up a system in a pre-boot state, without having to install any software on the system with cold imaging technology.
Captures and protects 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.
Ability to back up selective files and folders on a separate schedule than a full system backup.
Saves recovery points to almost any disk storage device, including Direct Attached Storage; USB and FireWire drives and network storage; Network Attached Storage (NAS) and Storage Attached Network (SAN) devices; as well as 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.
Storage Efficiency
Increase the speed of backup jobs and reduce data backup storage with integrated SmartSector and compression technologies. SmartSector technology speeds up the backup process by copying only the hard-disk sectors that contain data and compression technology reduces the size of the backup file by storing the same amount of data in fewer bits.
Scalable Centralized Management and Monitoring
Symantec System Recovery features an intuitive user-friendly interface, which incorporates automated practice decision making and reporting, centralized management (Symantec System Recovery Management Solution), designed to manage up to 10,000 Symantec System Recovery clients from a single console, and Symantec System Recovery Monitor for monitoring smaller environments. Together, they simplify the management and administration of any environment, saving valuable time, resources, and money.
Centrally deploy, configure, and manage Symantec System Recovery across an entire infrastructure.
Create, edit, and distribute backup jobs, client settings, and client licensing policies.
Monitor the current protection status of all managed systems with the consolidated Home Page view.
View real-time status of backup jobs with the ability to filter on computer name, job type, job name, and IP address.
Identify and drill down to problem areas with a built-in filtering system.
Provides the ability to set default configuration settings for an individual system or groups of systems, including performance throttling, network bandwidth utilization, and notifications via email or SNMP traps.
Monitors local and network backup destination usage and historical trends.
Centrally access computer details including volume name, size, amount, and percentage of space used as well as last recovery point time and location.
Flexible, Powerful Reports
Simplifies the tracking of an environment with preset reports.
Allows users to view past, current, and scheduled backup and recovery jobs across all sites.
Exports reports to .csv, .html, Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, PDF, or .xml formats for easy distribution.