Within the “backup” portion of the data protection spectrum, one Veritas product, Backup Exec, has been in the market for more than two decades. Backup Exec 15 FP5 is the latest version of Veritas’s backup and recovery software. In addition, Backup Exec's family of agents and options offer features for scaling the Backup Exec environment and extending platform and feature support. In addition, Microsoft also licensed and incorporated Backup Exec's backup engine into Windows NT, the server version of Windows. Microsoft Tape Format (MTF), was originally Maynard's (Backup Exec's first authors) proprietary backup Tape Format (MTF) and was later licensed by Microsoft as Windows standard tape format. When used with tape drives, Backup Exec uses the Microsoft Tape Format (MTF), which is also used by Windows NTBackup, backup utilities included in Microsoft SQL Serve r, and many other backup vendors and is compatible with BKF.
Current versions of the software support Microsoft, VMware, Linux and Macintosh amongst a longer list of supported software. Backup Exec recovers data, applications, databases, or systems, from an individual file, mailbox item, table object, to an entire server. With its client/server design, Backup Exec provides backup and restore capabilities for servers, applications and workstations across the network. The installation wizard can be started from the Backup Exec Installation Media or the management console to push agents out to the physical servers, Hyper-V/VMware virtual machines, application/database systems hosting AD, Exchange, Oracle database, SQL, and other supported platforms. Installing Backup Exec 15 on a Windows Server 2012 R2 system takes around 30 minutes. Backup Exec also provides integrated deduplication, replication, and disaster recovery capabilities and helps to manage multiple backup servers or multi-drive tape loaders.īackup Exec 15 has an installation process that is well automated.
Veritas Backup Exec, is a data management software designed for customers who have mixed physical and virtual environments including VMware, Hyper-V, Windows, Linux, or Mac servers with a single user interface. Windows Server, Linux, MAC, VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-VĮnglish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese Windows 2012 R2, Windows 2012, Windows 2008 R2, Windows 2008, Windows 2003 R2, Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server