Backup Exec Details

[Nabilwaseem]

We are planning to implement a backup system for our client’s Network Infrastructure. Can you kindly answer us the queries on your product to help us decide choose the system. Kindly send us the enquiry a.s.a.p. as we need to implement the backup system almost immediately.

1.            Can Backup Exec be installed on VM ESXI and use it to take backup and restore other VM and Data? How does it work?

2.            Is it possible to restore the VM backup on a different VM Server?

3.            How easy is it to restore VM?

4.            Does it  support incremental backups?

5.            How does Backup Exec take full backup of physical Server? It is possible to restore the full backup at different location? How much time it takes to restore?

6.            Does it requires additional license to take backup other Servers? Does it requires to install agents on these server? Do we need additional license for this?

7.            Is it possible to take backup through a shared folder (e.g. folder shared through NAS)?

8.            Does it support Tape backup? Any additional license?

9.            How much is the total cost for these features (Tape, VM, Multiple Server)?

10.          Any special feature that you might state?

[CraigV · Accepted solution]

Hi,

1. Yes it can but this is strictly not supported when accessing real devices. You need to be aware that from a Symantec perspective this is not supported.

http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH130609

2. Yes it is. You can do a redirected restore to a different VMware environment. Check below:

http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO23032

3. Kind of a subjective answer which will be explained above. As long as your backups are good, the length of time depends on your restore media (disk/tape/dedupe folder), restore path (DAS/SAN/network) and the size of the VM.

4. Yes you can do incremental backups. Just select this option when creating and configuring the jobs.

5. BE will do a VSS snapshot of the VM, and then back it up. If going to disk via GRT, the temporary staging location is already in disk and this won't be required. If to tape, the restore stages to C:\Temp. You'd need as much disk space on C:\ as your VM is big.

6. Chck the licensing document below, or contact Symantec's licensing department to confirm everything.

http://eval.symantec.com/mktginfo/enterprise/other_resources/backup_exec_licensing_guide_21223660.en...

7. Yes. Just make sure your NAS is supported for B2D jobs by referring to the BE 2012 HCL below, and you can also download and run b2dtest.exe against it to see if it is all OK. Furthermore, it gets added as a B2D as: \\IP_Address\ShareName.

http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH175582

8. Yes. No, not unless you have more than 1 drive in an autoloader or tape library. If a library has 2 drives for instance, you'd need 1 x Library Expansion Option for the 2nd drive as the 1st is covered by the media server license.

9. No idea...you need to contact a reseller or Symantec's licensing department.

10. Dedupe is 1 which you can consider. Enterprise Server Option if you have multiple media servers.

Thanks!