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VERITAS NetBackup Server software is a cost-effective heterogeneous backup and recovery solution designed for mid-size organizations, workgroups, and remote offices. NetBackup software helps organizations take advantage of both tape and disk storage through advances in disk backups, off-site tape management, and automated server recovery. For the ultimate in data protection, NetBackup offers data encryption that transmits and stores data using the latest encryption technologies on the market today. To reduce the impact on business critical systems, NetBackup software enables granular backup and recovery of online databases and applications. Offering complete protection from desktop to server to vault, NetBackup software provides one tool for total control and visibility into all backup and recovery operations.

Fast Disk-Based Data Protection

Robust Disk Management and Optimization
NetBackup software's disk-based data protection solutions help organizations transcend the limitations of traditional tape-based backup and recovery to take advantage of the following benefits:

• Performance - Leverage random access disk capabilities and granular tuning parameters, while eliminating the mounting and positioning delays. Enable disk-based snapshots for instant, low-impact protection.
• Availability - Online, always available storage. Demanding operations no longer have to wait in line for resources. Backups, restores, and duplications can be performed simultaneous. Advanced availability features include the ability to import disk images and failover between storage groups and media severs.
• Management - Reduce media management complexities, while enabling flexible scheduling and configurations. Proactively mange disk capacity with high / low watermarks and thresholds.

Industrial-Strength Backup and Recovery

Unparalleled Breadth
NetBackup offers an unparallel breadth of support for all leading data types, applications, platforms, and locations. The NetBackup 6.0 release further extends this industry leading support with extended proliferation of:

• IA-64 (Linux & HP-UX)
• Microsoft SQL 2005 (Yukon) Beta
• Microsoft SharePoint Portal 2003
• Solaris 10
• Lotus Notes Domino / Notes 7

Infinite Scalability, Ironclad Infrastructure
The burden of the every increasing data growth and IT complexity is often felt most on the data protection application and infrastructure. Today’s largest organizations look to NetBackup 6.0 to not only scale to meet their demanding needs, but rely on NetBackup 6.0’s rock-solid, ironclad infrastructure to withstand the increased data protection stress.

• Enterprise Media Manager - Enterprise Media Manager provides for centralization and consolidation of many internal NetBackup and Media Manager databases and media and drive selection logic for scalability, increased resiliency (ability to failover), and dynamically share resources between servers. This technology enables tape drive sharing between media severs and NDMP NAS systems. In addition, administrators can now swap tape drives and have them automatically recognized by NetBackup.
• Intelligent Resource Manager - New NetBackup scheduler and resource broker provides a single point of control for all resource allocation within NetBackup. In addition the Intelligent Resource Manager enables the prioritization of backups, restores and duplications.
  Online Catalog Backups - Organizations can perform backup, recovery, or duplication operations 24/7, while protecting the backup application with minimal impact.

Integrated Disaster Recovery
NetBackup now offers a complete integrated automated server recovery solution for all major platforms (including UNIX, Windows, and now Linux). Symantec is the only company to offer such heterogeneous server recovery support. And for the first time, NetBackup introduces Bare Metal Restore support for Linux (Red Hat & SuSE) and support for homogenous Windows environments. Additionally, combining the integration and new robust infrastructure of NetBackup, Bare Metal Restore option offers enhanced scalability and performance to protect the largest server environments.

Know More, Manage More
NetBackup 6.0 software helps backup administrators know more about their environment so they can quickly and efficiently take the appropriate actions and manage more systems, data, and locations per administrator.

Next Generation Management & Reporting
NetBackup 6.0 introduces the next generation in data protection management and reporting technology with the NetBackup Operations Manager. NetBackup Operations Manager is a new, integrated tool that is included (at no additional costs) with NetBackup that provides administrators cutting-edge management, monitoring, alerting, reporting, and troubleshooting capabilities.

Centralized, Web View of All Backup Operations
The NetBackup Operations Manager offers a web-based console to view and manage all worldwide (multi-site environment) data protection operations from a single point of administration. Administrators no longer have to log-in to each backup server to manage or check status. At remote sites where staffing may be an issue, NetBackup Operations Manager can help provide 24/7 "follow-the-sun" management.

Real-Time Health Check and Simplified Troubleshooting
NetBackup Operations Manager provides the ability to quickly gain real-time operational and health status of your distributed data protection environment. Using the NetBackup Operations Manager, administrators can diagnose problems, identify potential issues, and take corrective actions. To assist with troubleshooting efforts, NetBackup Operations Manager offers in-context links to error codes, alert notification, log viewing, and ability to merge and filter multiple job logs.