Veritas Backup Exec 22 Options

Veritas Backup Exec 22 Options: Comprehensive and flexible data backup

In the ever-changing digital world, reliable data protection is essential. Veritas Backup Exec 22 Options offers a wide range of features to help organizations effectively protect their business-critical data and quickly restore it in an emergency. With a rapid development cycle and frequent updates, Backup Exec always remains at the cutting edge of technology.

Highlights of the latest version of Veritas Backup Exec 22 Options

With the growing threat of ransomware, organizations of all sizes need a robust plan of action. Veritas Backup Exec 22 Options offers many new features and enhancements to keep your data even safer:

• Malware detection: an additional line of defense against unwanted data.
• Support for VMware and Hyper-V backup sets
• Scanning of backup sets: Possible at any time or before restore, powered by Microsoft Defender.
• Role-based access control (RBAC): Restrict system access to authorized users with defined roles and permissions.
• Performance enhancements: Optimize protection performance with enhanced deduplication and parallel backup of multiple virtual disks.

Veritas Backup Exec 22 Options Overview

Veritas Backup Exec™ focuses on keeping backup simple, secure and consistent. You decide what data to back up, where to store it and how to pay for it. Your data remains secure and available at every stage - whether backing up on-premises, in the cloud or restoring.

Key features and benefits

• Unified solution: Protects virtual, physical, public and hybrid cloud environments and reduces cost and complexity by using multiple individual products
• Support for all cloud storage tiers: AWS, Azure, Google and any generic S3-compatible cloud storage.
• Ransomware Protection: Protects backups from unauthorized access and modification with the Ransomware Resilience feature.
• Instant Recovery: Provides instantly usable copies of VMware and Hyper-V virtual machines for DR, compliance, testing and application deployment.
• Deduplication: Reduces storage requirements through deduplication both on-premises and in the cloud.
• Integrated Disaster Recovery: Supports physical-to-virtual (P2V) and virtual-to-physical (V2P) recovery to minimize downtime and disruption.
• Instant Cloud Recovery: Provides seamless failover to Microsoft Azure in the event of a disaster.

Veritas Backup Exec 22 options in detail

Enterprise Server Option

The Enterprise Server Option combines several powerful features:

• Central Administration Server Option (CASO)
• Shared Storage Option (SSO)
• Advanced Disk-based Backup Option (ADBO)

These functions enable the central administration and use of Backup Exec across multiple locations. Communication between the central administrationServer (CAS) and the managed Backup Exec servers (MBES) is encrypted using TLS/SSL. This option is licensed per managed Backup Exec environment.

Deduplication Option

The Deduplication Option offers flexible and integrated deduplication functions:

• Client deduplication: reduces redundant data directly on the source or remote servers.
• Media server deduplication: Optimizes data storage on the media server.
• Appliance deduplication: Integrates with OpenStorage deduplication appliances for greater efficiency.

This option minimizes storage requirements and improves transfer efficiency, especially for data from remote locations. It is licensed per Backup Exec Server.

Library Expansion Option

With the Library Expansion Option (LEO) you can expand your storage systems:

• Expansion of tape devices
• Integration of optical autoloader and library storage systems

This option allows you to add additional drives to your existing storage systems, increasing the capacity and flexibility of your data protection. The LEO is licensed per additional Device.

VTL Unlimited Drive Option

The Virtual Tape Library (VTL) Unlimited Drive Option offers comprehensive expansion options:

It allows the provision of Library Expansion Options (LEO) per Backup Exec media server, so that the VTL storage environment can be integrated like a single Device. This option is licensed per Backup Exec media server and significantly increases the flexibility and efficiency of your data protection.

System requirements