Veritas Backup Exec (formerly Symantec Backup Exec) is a data protection software product 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[1] capabilities and helps to manage multiple backup servers or multi-drive tape loaders.

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.

Key Veritas Backup Exec features include:

• fast virtual machine (VM) snapshots through integration with Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (Microsoft VSS);
• instant recovery of VMware and Hyper-V VMs
• integrated global deduplication and changed block tracking
• integrated bare-metal, physical-to-virtual and virtual-to-physical recovery
• the ability to protect thousands of VMs from a single user console
• easy setup, simple maintenance and user friendly

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