Symantec Backup Exec Agent 12.5 for Microsoft Active Directory

Symantec Backup Exec Agent 12.5 for Windows Microsoft Active Directory dramatically reduces the time to recover from small disasters, helping to improve employee productivity, reduce the potential for greater issues, and alleviate the aggravation associated with traditional Active Directory protection and recovery. Only Backup Exec 12.5 can leverage the innovative Granular Recovery Technology (GRT) which helps IT Administrators save time and money by giving them the ability to restore such critical data as individual user accounts, organizational units, even individuals from a single pass backup while Active Directory remains online - no reboots!

• Online, granular recovery of individual Active Directory objects
• Restore objects without rebooting AD Domain Controllers
• Single Pass Backups for complete AD or object level recovery from single backup
• Support for 2008 Active Directory Domain Services
• Centralized System State and Active Directory protection

Backup Exec Agents and Option enhance and extend platform and feature support for Backup Exec Environments. Whether you need to protect critical Microsoft applications or non-Microsoft Operating systems, Backup Exec 12.5 for Windows Servers has an expansive portfolio of high powered Agents and Options to scale and grow a Backup Exec environment. The Backup Exec 12.5 Media Server and Agent of Windows Systems licenses include Advanced Open File Option (AOFO) and Intelligent Disaster Recovery Option (IDRO).

Most Active Directory recovery jobs involve recovering from "small disasters" of lost, deleted, corrupted or overwritten user accounts, objects, and attributes. If not quickly resolved, these "small disasters" can quickly escalate into larger issues. In situations where an individual user account, object, or even an individual attribute is lost or corrupted, recovery of the entire Active Directory database is not an efficient use of time for the Administrator since recovery is only needed for individual objects.

Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 Agent for Microsoft Active Directory dramatically reduces the time to recover from small disasters, helping to improve employee productivity, reduce the potential for greater issues, and alleviate an IT Administrator's aggravation associated with traditional Active Directory protection and recovery. Only the Backup Exec 12.5 Agent for Active Directory leverages the innovative Granular Recovery Technology (GRT) which helps IT Administrators save time and money by giving them the ability to restore individual AD items, while Active Directory is online, including:

• Individual User Accounts
• Organizational Units (OU's)
• Printer Objects
• Even Individual AD attributes and values including names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, etc. all from a fast single-pass database level backup of Active Directory.

The easy to use Backup Exec interface walks Administrators through the process of identifying the necessary AD Domain Controller System State components for fast and simple backup and recovery of Active Directory objects.

Key Features and Benefits of Backup Exec 12.5 Agent for Microsoft Active Directory:

• Embedded Granular Restore Technology - Included GRT technology provides the ability to restore individual Active Directory objects including deleted user accounts, printers, and organizational units, down to the individual attribute level without restoring the entire Active Directory.
• Single-Pass Backup with GRT - Eliminate separate slow individual object level Active Directory backups forever. Complete data protection requires only one backup job saving space on vital disk and/or tape media and ensure each backup completes quickly.
• Online AD Recovery (no reboots required) - Recover important Active Directory information while Active Directory is online
• Completely Automated Object Recovery - Ensure deleted AD objects to be recovered with their original IDs and correct links to other Active Directory objects, eliminating the need to re-create the IDs and broken links
• Disk to Disk or Disk to Tape Backup and Recovery - Flexible backup and recovery capabilities allow for backup to disk for fast recovery or backup to tape for long-term storage

Backup Exec 12.5 for Windows Servers

Backup Exec 12.5 Agent for Microsoft Active Directory

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System Requirements:

For a complete list of supported environments, refer to the Backup Exec hardware and software compatibility list.

Operating Systems Supported

• Microsoft Windows Server 2008
• Microsoft Windows Essential Business Server 2008
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 family (SP1).
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 family.
• Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2003.(SP1)
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Server family.(SP4, Update Rollup 1 for Windows SP4) (SP4 is min for support of SQLExpress 2005)
• For Windows Small Business Server, please see Backup Exec for Windows Small Business Server

Virtual Environments

• VMware ESX Server 2.5, 3.0 and 3.5
• VMware Infrastructure 3 (replacement/rename for ESX Server)
• VMware Server 1.0 (replacement/rename for GSX Server)
• VMware GSX Server 3.1 and 3.2
• Microsoft Hyper-V
• Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2

Client Support

Note: for Mini-filter drivers (needed for Exchange granular support) Only certain versions of Windows Server 2000 and Windows Server 2003 support minifilters. Specifically: Windows Server 2000 must have SP4 and the "Update Rollup 1 for Windows SP4".Windows Server 2003 must have at least SP1.

• Microsoft Windows Vista (Ultimate, Business & Enterprise) (Supported by Remote Agent for Windows Servers only)
• Microsoft Windows XP Professional (SP2) (SP2 is min for support for SQL Express 2005)

Note: Storage Provisioning will require Window 2003 R2 or Windows 2008. It will also depend on VDS 1.1

Internet Browser

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or later
• Service Pack 1 is required for SQL Server 2005 Express

Processor

• Intel Pentium, Xeon, AMD, or compatible

Memory--Backup Exec Media Server

Note: RAM Requirements may vary depending on the operations performed, the options installed, and the specific computer configuration.

• Required: 256 MB RAM
• Recommended: 512 MB RAM (or more for better performance)

Memory--Backup Exec CASO Server

Note: RAM requirements may vary depending on the number of media servers being supported.

• Required: 512 MB RAM
• Recommended: 1 GB RAM

Virtual Memory Recommendations

• 20 MB above the Windows recommended size for total paging file size (total for all disk volumes)

Disk Space

Note: Disk space requirements may vary depending on operations performed, the options installed, and the specific system configuration. Backup Exec database and catalogs require additional space.

• 696 MB (Typical Installation)
• 805 MB (includes all options)

Other Hardware

• Network interface card or a virtual network adapter card
• CD-ROM drive
• (Recommended) A mouse
• (Optional for pager notification) Modem supported by Microsoft Windows
• (Optional for printer notification) Printer supported by Microsoft Windows

Storage Hardware

Backup Exec requires at least one storage media drive and/or single-drive robotic library and the appropriate controller card. Removable storage devices and non-removable hard drives can also be targeted for backups. Note: Support for a single robotic library drive is available when you purchase Backup Exec. To enable support for additional robotic library drives, you must purchase Backup Exec Library Expansion Option.

Symantec Backup Exec for Windows Servers: System Requirements

Product information, specifications, and compatibility are for advisory purposes only, and is the buyers full responsibility to verify with the manufacturer prior to ordering.