Symantec Backup Exec 11d performs well, installation is a breeze and considering the ability to backup and restore individual database records and substantially reduce downtime, it isnt difficult to justify the price.
Backup Exec 11d is an Enterprise grade disk to tape server/agent backup solution. In this new release, the new feature that really stands out is its ability to restore items at the database level. Backup Exec has the ability to restore individual messages in Microsoft Exchange for instance or individual records or components in other database driven products such as Microsoft SQL and Active Directory.
While these features are already available in other products, this is the first implementation of its kind for Symantec. This sort of feature set naturally requires Backup Exec to fully understand how these products work and integrate with them closely so best to research and check to see if your database driven product is supported in order to use the high granularity restores.
We tested Backup Exec 11d by installing it on one of our Windows 2003 Servers. We installed a Windows backup agent on various Windows based machines and tested the programs functionality and ease of use.
