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Symantec releases Linux version of Backup Exec System Recovery (SearchDataBackup.com)

[Posted November 3, 2009 by cook]

SearchDataBackup.com reports that Symantec has released a Linux version of its BESR utility. "Symantec Corp. 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."

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Not linux native, just supports ext[2,3]

Posted Nov 3, 2009 19:55 UTC (Tue) by amimjf (guest, #506) [Link]

See the questions people are already asking on the Symantec forums.

http://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/linux-recovery

Not linux native, just supports ext[2,3]

Posted Nov 3, 2009 20:07 UTC (Tue) by nage (guest, #61768) [Link]

No this is a new port that is Linux native. The old stuff just did ext2/3 from windows (those support articles are over two years old). This is a new CLI client that supports ext2/3 and reiserfs. It even has its own snapshots so you can do a hot backup of a non-lvm volume.

This is a real Linux port

Posted Nov 3, 2009 20:13 UTC (Tue) by nage (guest, #61768) [Link]

The link to the product on Symantec's website:
http://www.symantec.com/business/backup-exec-system-recov...

Symantec releases Linux version of Backup Exec System Recovery (SearchDataBackup.com)

Posted Nov 4, 2009 8:26 UTC (Wed) by MKesper (guest, #38539) [Link]

What's the advantage to e.g. AMANDA or Bacula?

Symantec releases Linux version of Backup Exec System Recovery (SearchDataBackup.com)

Posted Nov 4, 2009 9:49 UTC (Wed) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link]

The cool name. As much as 'Bacula' is a great name, even they haven't figured out how to include both exec() and system() in the product name.

Windows Mentality In A Linux World

Posted Nov 5, 2009 4:52 UTC (Thu) by ldo (subscriber, #40946) [Link]

Big bloody deal. Theyre still thinking in terms of features that are hard to do in the Windows world, but Linux already deals with as a matter of course:

Bare-metal restore. Can already do that, just boot up with a Live CD/DVD and you have the full power of a full OS to hand, with all its file- manipulation tools, scripting tools, network stack etc, as opposed to some some proprietary vendors limited toolset.
... 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. But who cares? I can already do this. The OS is already just a bunch of files, that I can backup and restore individually using standard file-manipulation tools provided by the OS itself. There is no complicated, fragile Registry to baby-sit, no deep filesystem voodoo involved that only an elaborate image backup/restore can safely handle; it Just Works.