Linux gets its own version of Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery
Symantec has released a new version of its bare-metal restore software that adds support for Linux servers and tightens integration for centralized management of server backups.
Backup Exec System Recovery (BESR) 2010 will ship this week, but new support for backing up and restoring entire server images including operating system or individual files from Red Hat or SUSE Linux servers won't be generally available until December.
Once that happens, it will be the first non-Windows operating system support to be available for BESR, said senior product marketing manager Susie Spencer. According to Symantec's support forums, workarounds were possible to make Backup Exec System Recovery work with some Linux file systems previously. While it would appear at first to overlap with the company's Linux-focused a Veritas NetBackup product, she said the BESR support is intended for smaller businesses with a few Linux machines that they'd like to add to an existing BESR deployment for Windows.
"This would be for new customers without the ability to recover for Linux machines," she said. For more advanced Linux users or for Linux distributions other than Red Hat and SUSE, Symantec would offer Veritas NetBackup.
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