NetBackup Platform

Provides all the files and services necessary to perform system recovery, including the ability to perform diskless network booting, temporary OS installation, and disk configuration. This feature boasts a complete system recovery time of approximately 15 minutes on any platform.

Data is encrypted at the source/client to provide a very high level of data security while in transit over the network and on storage media. Client encryption is ideal for protecting smaller, yet dedicated clients and databases. It supports a variety of encryption algorithms, including 128-bit and 256-bit as well as legacy 40-bit and 56-bit encryption methods.

Designed for customers who would prefer to utilize their storage area network (SAN) for backup operations instead of their local area network (LAN). This feature enables LANfree data protection with high-performance access to shared resources.

Offloads backup traffic from the LAN and allows for fast backups over the SAN at approximately 150 MB/sec. The SAN client can send data to a variety of NetBackup disk options and allows you to back up and restore to disk over the SAN. Data is sent to media servers via SCSI commands over the SAN rather than TCP/IP over the LAN to optimize performance.

Enables low-impact backup and recovery for databases and applications. By enabling you to leverage a variety of software or hardware snapshot capabilities, this feature can greatly reduce the amount of data being transferred during backup and recovery as well as dramatically improve backup performance and recovery time for mission-critical databases and applications.

NetBackup can provide both client and virtual machine (VM) level protection using the vStorage API. This integration enables a single backup of VMware images to deliver granular file-level or full image-level recovery, reducing both the time and cost of VMware data protection.

• Improves speed by 50% and reduces storage by up to 40% versus previous versions' approaches with VMware Consolidate Backup
• Only NetBackup offers instant recovery of files from block-level increment backups (BLIB)
• Complete deduplication across all virtual and physical systems regardless of backup method
• Automate and manage snapshots inside a virtual machine from host and array-based providers
• No backup or recovery compromises for customers who back up directly to tape

Reduce the performance impact of virtual machine (VM) backup and recovery using NetBackup. Automatically discover existing virtual machines as well as those not currently protected. The NetBackup Enterprise Client delivers even more benefits:

• Eliminate the impact of backup with off-host/server-less backup of individual VMs
• Protect VMs without using a client or agent inside the virtual machine
• Save time and resources: get two types of recovery—VM and file-level—from one backup operation
• Faster daily backups with incremental backups of entire VMs
• No backup or recovery compromises for customers who back up directly to tape

NetBackup software works with IBM DB2 native backup and recovery utilities to protect DB2 databases and archive logs. NetBackup offers unprecedented techniques for protecting DB2 databases—from integrated block-level backup and recovery to instant recovery via the NetBackup Snapshot Client.

Features and Benefits

• Flexible backup options—Full, incremental, and blocklevel backups as well as backup of archive logs via the user exit program
• Wizard-based configuration—Performs step-by-step configuration of DB2 backup and recovery via an intuitive, graphical, wizard-based interface

NetBackup protects IBM Informix Dynamic Server and IBM Informix Extended Parallel Server running on many of today’s popular operating platforms. NetBackup, in conjunction with the Informix ON-Bar utility, provides a methodology to help ensure that business-critical Informix applications are safely backed up and can be recovered quickly.

Features and Benefits

• Continuous logical log backup—Configure automated logical log backup to help prevent logical logs from filling up and locking up the database server
• Flexible backup options—Back up and restore at the dbspace, blobspace, and logical log file level

Features and Benefits

• High-speed recovery—Verify-only restores can be used to verify the SQL contents of a backup image without actually restoring the data
• Point-in-time recovery—Recovers SQL databases to the exact point in time or transaction log mark by rolling forward only the transactions that occurred prior to a user-specified date and time
• Granular database view—Display of database object properties provides backup and recovery flexibility

The NetBackup Oracle Agent is tightly integrated with the Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) to deliver highperformance backup and recovery solutions. It supports Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), offers continuous data protection, and can clone Oracle databases from backup images.

Features and Benefits

• Online/Hot Oracle backups—Keep the database online and increase reliability by eliminating manual processes and scripts
• RMAN integration—Tightly integrated with the Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) wizard to deliver high performance backup and recovery
• Eliminate backup and recovery windows—Using snapshots and continuous data protection with Symantec NetBackup RealTime

NetBackup for Sybase offers high-performance backup and recovery for Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) databases on leading UNIX and Windows platforms.

Features and Benefits

• Parallel backup and recovery—Supports the parallel backup and restore capabilities of the Sybase ASE Backup Server. This permits you to run more than one tape device at a time for a single Sybase ASE backup or restore, helping to reduce the time necessary to complete the operation
• Track backup history—Detailed views of backup history simplify restores, as backups of databases and transaction logs are easier to track

Symantec offers high-performance backup and recovery for Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino server with NetBackup for Lotus Notes. Administrators can leverage intuitive GUIs to help set consistent backup policies across the enterprise and to quickly identify critical Lotus files or databases when they need to be restored.

Features and Benefits

• Alternate restoration techniques—With backups not tied to a specific backup server, NetBackup software can restore Lotus data either on an alternate system or in an alternate directory
• Advanced Lotus integration—Support for partitioned Lotus servers and Lotus clustering

For any enterprise, Microsoft Active Directory is integral in managing network services. Therefore, the comprehensive protection and quick recovery of Active Directory is critical.

Features and benefits

• Recover any Active Directory item—Granular recovery including the ability to recover all items with full attributes (for example, user, server, printers) to satisfy both daily and disaster recovery (DR) requirements with one backup image
• Eliminate Active Directory server reboot—Minimize downtime and keep the application up and running
• Ease of use and control—Leverage Microsoft VSS system state backup for ease of use and control

Symantec recognizes the need for nondisruptive mechanisms to protect Exchange data, along with all data in the enterprise. NetBackup for Microsoft Exchange helps provide the performance and flexibility required for effective backup and recovery operations within large Exchange based environments.

Features and Benefits

• Online backup—Complete, nondisruptive protection of the Exchange database and mailbox components, including mailbox-level backup
• Flexible restore options—Rapid, granular recovery of databases and mailboxes, including support for performing individual message restores
• Eliminate MAPI backups—Enable granular recovery of the full application and a single email with only one backup pass and one copy stored

Features and Benefits

• Easy to use—One console can be used to protect SharePoint and Windows services; includes server farm configuration and single sign-on for databases
• Granular recovery—Save time and storage by recovering SharePoint files, including different versions of a file, sites, sub-sites, and lists such as calendars and links

The integration of NetBackup for SAP NetWeaver with the SAP DBA administrative interface, along with the BR backup and recovery commands, provides a solid, SAP NetWeaver–centric data protection solution for customer specific configurations on the UNIX, Windows, and Linux platforms.

Features and Benefits

• Oracle RMAN support—Leverage Oracle RMAN benefits when protecting SAP NetWeaver using Oracle
• No backup window and instant recovery—By using NetBackup RealTime continuous data protection and live replication
• Flexible implementation—Perform database operations through NetBackup, or use the SAP tools (SAPDBA interface) independently

NetBackup now automates the protection and recovery of Enterprise Vault environments.

Features and Benefits

• Simplify protection of Enterprise Vault servers—Automatically discover the various servers and components within your Enterprise Vault environment that need protection, including partitions and their associated databases
• Leverage snapshot technology—The backup of the snapshot is done quickly and efficiently, eliminating the need for manual scripts or the manipulation of registry settings
• Effective disaster recovery—Centrally manage the disaster recovery process of the Enterprise Vault partitions and databases

Enterprise Vault Automated Classification Engine (A.C.E.) extends the existing capabilities of Enterprise Vault to include intelligent content-based categorization and tagging of email. Specifically, automated classification enables Enterprise Vault to apply rules towards emails and categorize messages according to content or context within the message.

Enterprise Vault Compliance Accelerator is a highly configurable add-on solution to Enterprise Vault. Compliance Accelerator allows organizations to perform easy, cost-effective supervisory review of email to ensure compliance with regulatory bodies such as NASD. Providing the framework to select and sample target email, manage its review by appropriate reviewers, and record the process for audit purposes, Compliance Accelerator dramatically decreases the cost and effort of email supervision, review and compliance demonstration.

Enterprise Vault Content Management Connector for EMC Documentum Retention Policy Services enables Documentum users to perform in-place retention management of Microsoft Exchange Server email messages stored in Enterprise Vault. Through direct integration, Documentum-based retention policies can be transparently applied to email messages which are declared as records and will be stored and managed solely by Enterprise Vault.

Enterprise Vault Discovery Accelerator extends the basic search functionality of Enterprise Vault to help lower the cost of data collection and facilitate the search and recovery process of archived items used for electronic discovery. The release of Discovery Accelerator provides significant enhancements delivering a more powerful and efficient search capability, configurable enforcement of items during a litigation holds and flexible export capabilities to simplify production.

The Encase Ingest Connector allows the Enterprise Vault Discovery Accelerator customer to ingest Guidance EnCase Logical Evidence files into the Enterprise Vault archive for use in the legal discovery process by Enterprise Vault Discovery Accelerator.

Enterprise Vault File System Archiving provides "out-of-the-box" archiving support for any application that generates and stores information in standard files. File System Archiving saves critical space on file servers by seamlessly moving files to alternative storage devices without impact on the end-user. Archive files, by age, size or other criteria. Items are compressed, stored and indexed centrally by Enterprise Vault, and can be searched as well as retrieved transparently by users via optional placeholders.

Enterprise Vault integrates with IM Manager to provide a single point of storage and review for Instant Messages and E-Mail. Instant Messages are captured by an embedded version of Symantec IM Manager across 13 major protocols including Microsoft Live Communications Server (LCS), IBM/Lotus Sametime, AOL, MSN, Yahoo, Bloomberg, Reuters and Google. IM Manager and Enterprise Vault ensure that all electronic messaging can be reviewed, filtered and stored according to policy.

Enterprise Vault software allows organizations to migrate all existing PST file data into the archive repository. Restoring user search and accessibility to this data enables the organization to effectively achieve PST eradication.

Enterprise Vault Public Folder Archiving archives individual public folders in Microsoft Exchange. Optionally, shortcuts are left behind allowing users to easily view or restore the original items transparently through Outlook or via extended web-based search functions.

Enterprise Vault for Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Domino archives individual mailboxes to eliminate quotas, message size restrictions and simultaneously control message store growth. Admin-defined policies automatically archive email and attachments out of the email server and into online Enterprise Vault stores. Optionally, shortcuts are left behind allowing users to easily view or restore the original items transparently through Outlook, Notes, or via extended web-based search functions.

Enterprise Vault works seamlessly with Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Domino journaling in order to satisfy the corporate legal or regulatory retention requirements. Enterprise Vault can be configured to retain a copy of all email messages sent and received, ensuring that they are kept for the appropriate period of time required to meet regulatory or legal retention requirements.

The Enterprise Vault 8.0 Secure Messaging and Rights Management Adapter replaces the following EV 7.x named adapters:

• Adapter for Microsoft Rights Management Server
• Adapter for PGP
• Adapter for Liquid Machines (LMDC)

Symantec Enterprise Vault for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 extends the value of SharePoint environments for collaborating and managing content by automatically archiving from document libraries, folders, and files. This powerful combination helps enterprises enforce retention policies, increase application performance, and reduce the storage and costs associated with managing high volumes of electronic content. Adding SharePoint data to Enterprise Vault helps ensure compliance with corporate policies and litigation preparedness and can be searched alongside other sources (for example, Microsoft Exchange or file system data) using standard Enterprise Vault software tools such as Discovery Accelerator.

Enterprise Vault Archiving for SharePoint Overview