How to figure the best backup to the solution

Hi Mghannaj,

If you are planning to have granular recovery for your AD (OU, users etc.), Exchange (user email, mailbox, databases) and other files..and if you have a requirement to use deduplication which will provide you faster backups and less network impact then i would suggest to use Symantec Backup Exec.

However if your applications are running on different platforms then i would suggest you use Symantec Netbackup since it support many platforms including Unix, Linux Solaris you can see this on the Netbackup Software Compatibility List.

Both solutions above will greatly address your requirements especially if you plan to use deduplication and granular level recovery.

You can look for other infos for these products on the Symantec Website..kindly see this links.

For Backup Exec:

http://www.symantec.com/products-solutions/families/?fid=backup-exec

For Netbackup:

http://www.symantec.com/en/aa/netbackup

Hope this helps..

Thanks

refer best practices

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=HOWTO74446

As the name suggests, One Time Backup will create a backup job to backup the selected data only once. If you want to configure a backup job so that it runs daily/ weekly/ monthly automatically than use the normal option to backup to deduplication disk storage.

Noted on this.

A one-time backup is a job that only runs once without any recurring instances. You can create a one-time backup to create a baseline for a server before you upgrade it or install new software. After Backup Exec finishes running a one-time backup, it deletes the job rather than saving it with your recurring jobs.

Deduplication can save backend storage, considering your method of deduplication whether it's server side or client side since both these methods have benefits and drawbacks.

Hope this helps.

Thanks..