Backup Exec

Veritas Backup Exec

Backup Exec 15 Home Screen Dashboard
Original author(s)	Maynard Electronics
Developer(s)	Veritas Technologies LLC
Initial release	1980s
Stable release	16 / November 7, 2016
Development status	Publicly released
Written in	C, C++, C#, .Net, Python
Operating system	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, Windows 2016
Platform	Windows Server, Linux, VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V
Size	1.9 GB
Available in	English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
License	Proprietary commercial software
Website	http://www.backupexec.com

Veritas Backup Exec, is a data protection software designed for customers who have mixed physical and virtual environments, and who are moving to public cloud services. Supported platforms include VMware and Hyper-V virtualization, Windows and Linux operating systems, Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure and Google cloud storage, among others. All management and configuration operations are performed with a single user interface. Backup Exec also provides integrated deduplication, replication, and disaster recovery capabilities and helps to manage multiple backup servers or multi-drive tape loaders.

Backup Exec has an installation process that is well automated. Installing Backup Exec 15 on a Windows Server 2012 R2 system takes around 30 minutes. 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 Active Directory, Exchange, Oracle database, SQL, and other supported platforms.

With its client/server design, Backup Exec provides backup and restore capabilities for servers, applications and workstations across the network. Backup Exec recovers data, applications, databases, or systems, from an individual file, mailbox item, table object, to an entire server. Current versions of the software support Microsoft, VMware, and Linux, among a longer list of supported hardware and software.

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 Server, and many other backup vendors and is compatible with BKF. 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. In addition, Microsoft also licensed and incorporated Backup Exec's backup engine into Windows NT, the server version of Windows.