Symantec System Recovery 2013 Linux Edition (with 1 Year Essential Support)

To sustain your operations, your business, and even your brand, you need to recover from a system failure as quickly as possible. However, manual system recovery processes prolong system downtime - and potential losses.

Symantec System Recovery 2013 Linux Edition delivers superior backup and disaster recovery for Linux servers that enable businesses to recover from downtime or disasters in minutes. 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. Unlike other technologies, Symantec System Recovery also provides cross-platform Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V), and Virtual to-Physical (V2P) recoveries, making it the perfect complement to physical and virtual environments.

Features & Benefits

Key Features

• Restore volumes, partitions or complete Linux servers in minutes - even to bare metal or dissimilar hardware.
• Capture hot or cold recovery points of all the partitions and volumes on a Linux system containing the operating system (OS), applications, system settings, configurations, files, and data with image-based technology.
• Mount recovery points to restore granular items such as files, folders or documents.
• Built-in AES software encryption of Linux backups ensures the security of critical business data.
• Offsite Backup Copy to FTP location or secondary disk drive for enhanced disaster recovery capabilities
• Schedule server backups to run automatically, including event triggered backups, without disrupting user productivity
• Backs up to almost any disk storage device regardless of provider
• Centralized management and enterprise scalability

Key Benefits

• Linux backup software helps dramatically minimize downtime and avoid revenue and employee productivity losses.
• Meet strict recovery time objectives with fast, automated system recovery that takes just four simple steps.
• Quickly recover what you need, when you need it, including individual files, folders or complete Linux systems.
• Easily perform hardware refreshes and migrations.
• Eliminate the need to have duplicate hardware on standby for recovery purposes and save on hardware costs
• Simplify IT administration by centrally managing backup server and recovery tasks for multiple servers across your entire organization with Symantec System Recovery Management Solution or Symantec System Recovery Monitor Solution (included at no charge)
• Reduce storage costs, backup windows, and network traffic with integrated data reduction technologies.

Symantec System Recovery Management Solution (Included at no additional charge)

The Symantec System Recovery Management Solution is a highly scalable, centralized management solution designed to centrally manage up to 2,500 Symantec System Recovery clients from a single management server:

• Centrally deploy, configure and manage Symantec System Recovery across your organization.
• Create, edit, and distribute backup jobs, policies, installation packages, upgrade packages, and client settings for local and remote systems.
• Monitor the recovery point status of Windows and Linux servers and Windows desktops/ laptops across your organization.
• Remotely recover one drive, multiple drives, or an entire computer.
• Troubleshoot and resolve backup policies remotely.
• Simplify the tracking of your environment with powerful preset reports.

Symantec System Recovery 2013 Data Sheet

Symantec System Recovery 2013 White Paper

System Requirements

For a complete list of supported environments, refer to the System Recovery software compatibility list.:

Symantec System Recovery 2013 Software Compatibility List

Operating Systems

Operating Systems Supported for Symantec System Recovery Linux Edition

• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 and 11 SP1 (x86) 32-bit
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 and 11 SP1 (x86_64 not ia64) 64-bit
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, 10 SP1, 10 SP2, and 10 SP3 (x86) 32-bit
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, 10 SP1, 10 SP2, and 10 SP3 (x86_64 not ia64) 64-bit
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, and 5.5 (x86) 32-bit
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, and 5.5 (x86_64 not ia64) 64-bit
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 (x86) 32-bit
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 (x86_64 not ia64) 64-bit

RAM

The following are the memory requirements for SUSE Linux, Red Hat Linux, and the Symantec Recovery Disk:

• SUSE Linux: 1 GB
• Red Hat Linux: 1 GB

Available hard disk space

The Symantec System Recovery for Linux installation requires 50 MB of free disk space. If you intend to install and use the option for extracting and creating a Symantec Recovery Disk, you should have at least 200 MB of disk space. You should have sufficient hard disk space on a local hard disk or network server for storing recovery points. Be aware that the file sizes of resulting recovery points are affected by the amount of data that you intend to back up.

Software

• The mount.v2i option uses Lib fuse (32-bit version). Currently, only Fuse 2.7.x is supported. Other versions of Fuse are not supported, but may work.
• createSRD uses the squashfs-tools package on RHEL for creating RHEL Symantec Recovery Disks. You must install the required squashfs-tools package on RHEL 5.x and squashfs-tools and genisoimage packages on RHEL 6.0.
• createSRD uses the squashfs-tools package on RHEL for creating RHEL Symantec Recovery Disks. You must install the required squashfs-tools package on RHEL 5.x and squashfs-tools and genisoimage packages on RHEL 6.0.

CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive

The drive can be any speed, but it must be capable of being used as the startup drive from the BIOS.

Symantec System Recovery 2013 Management Solution (32-bit operating systems)

Processor

• Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.0 GHz or faster

RAM

• 2 GB or more

Available hard disk space

• 20 GB or more

Operating System

Enterprise and Standard editions of the following Windows operating systems are supported:

• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2

Database

Express, Standard, and Enterprise editions of the following SQL servers are supported:

• Microsoft SQL Server 2005
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008

Note: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition is included on the Symantec System Recovery 2011 Management Solution media. Symantec recommends that you install Microsoft SQL Server and Symantec System Recovery 2011 Management Solution on separate computers to avoid computer performance issues.

Software

The following must be installed on the computer on which you want to install Symantec System Recovery 2013 Management Solution:

• Microsoft Internet Information Services
• Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
• Microsoft ASP.NET
• Microsoft Internet Information Services 6.0
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 (and 8.0 in compatibility view)
• Microsoft Silverlight 3.0 or later
• Microsoft Windows Installer 4.5
• Symantec Installation Manager 7.0
• Symantec Management Platform 7.0 SP5

Note: Installation of Symantec System Recovery 2013 Management Solution is not supported on encrypted file systems. High speed Internet access is recommended at the computer where you install Symantec System Recovery 2013 Management Solution.

DVD-ROM drive

• Required for installation

Symantec System Recovery 2013 Management Solution (64-bit operating systems)

Processor

• Dual Processor Dual Core with 2.53 GHz or faster

Note: An Intel Itanium 2 processor is required for Windows Server 2008 R2 for Itanium-Based Systems.

RAM

• 4 GB or more

Available hard disk space

• 20 GB or more

Operating System

• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, Enterprise Edition, or Standard Edition

Database

Express, Standard, and Enterprise editions of the following SQL servers are supported:

• Microsoft SQL Server 2005
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2

Note: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express Edition is included on the Symantec System Recovery 2013 Management Solution media. Symantec recommends that you install Microsoft SQL Server and Symantec System Recovery 2013 Management Solution on separate computers to avoid computer performance issues.

Software

The following must be installed on the computer on which you want to install Symantec System Recovery 2013 Management Solution:

• Microsoft Internet Information Services
• Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
• Microsoft ASP.NET
• Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.5

Note: The IIS 6.0 compatibility mode must be enabled.

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 (and 8.0 in compatibility view)
• Microsoft Silverlight 3.0 or later
• Symantec Installation Manager 7.1
• Symantec Management Platform 7.1

Note: Installation of Symantec System Recovery 2013 Management Solution is not supported on encrypted file systems. High speed Internet access is recommended at the computer where you install Symantec System Recovery 2013 Management Solution.

DVD-ROM drive

• Required for installation

Symantec System Recover Monitor

The following Microsoft Windows 32-bit or 64-bit operating systems are supported:

• Microsoft Windows XP (All Editions)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 or R2
• Microsoft Windows Vista (All Editions)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 or R2
• Microsoft Windows 7 (All Editions)
• Microsoft Windows 8 (Desktop Edition)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012

The minimum system requirements to run the Symantec System Recovery 2013 Monitor application:

• Microsoft.NET Framework 4.0

Prerequisites for the Host computer

The following are the requirements to run this version of the Symantec System Recovery 2013 Monitor:

• 25-MB installation disk space
• Microsoft Windows display resolution set to 1024 x 768

To enable the View Console link, ensure that one of the following versions is installed on the client computer:

• Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery 2010
• Symantec System Recovery 2011
• Symantec System Recovery 2013

To enable communication with remote computers, add the DCOM port [Default: TCP port 135] and the Symantec System Recovery service [default location: C:\Program Files\Symantec \Symantec System Recovery\Agent\vprosvc.exe] to the firewall exceptions list. See Configuring Windows Firewall Exceptions.

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