Symantec System Recovery 2011 v10 Linux Edition (with 1 Year Basic Support)

To sustain your operations, your business and even your brand, you need to recover from a system failure as quickly as possible. But manual system recovery processes and solutions that depend on user intervention prolong system downtime - and potential losses.

Symantec System Recovery 2011 Linux Edition offers a superior solution by delivering fast and reliable system recovery that helps you minimize downtime and meet recovery time objectives with confidence. In just four simple steps, quickly restore physical and virtual systems in minutes, even to bare metal, dissimilar hardware, virtual environments, or remote locations with Symantec's patented Restore Anyware technology.

Built on 10 years of research and development and with more than 787,000 protected systems, Symantec System Recovery is one of the most proven, trusted, and reliable system recovery solutions.

Key Features

• Restore volumes, partitions or complete Linux servers in minutes - even to bare metal.
• Capture hot or cold recovery points of all the partitions and volumes on a Linux system containing the operating system (OS), applications, system settings, configurations, files, and data with image-based technology.
• Mount recovery points to restore granular items such as files, folders or documents.
• Built-in AES software encryption of backups ensures the security of critical business data

Key Benefits

• Dramatically minimize downtime and avoid revenue and employee productivity losses.
• Meet strict recovery time objectives with fast, automated system recovery that takes just four simple steps.
• Quickly recover what you need, when you need it, including individual files, folders or complete Linux systems.
• Easily perform hardware refreshes and migrations.
• Simplify IT administration by centrally managing backup tasks for multiple servers across your entire organization (via Symantec System Recovery Management Solution).

New Features

Updated support for the latest Microsoft Windows, Linux, VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Citrix XenServer operating systems and applications
With Symantec System Recovery 2011, we continue to build on our proven track record of comprehensive system protection for the latest Windows, Linux, VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Citrix XenServer operating systems and applications including:

• SharePoint 2010
• Exchange 2010 SP1
• SQL 2008 R2
• VMware vSphere 4.1
• VMware ESX 3.5 update 5
• Citrix XenServer 5.6
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP3, 11 and 11 SP1
• Red Hat Linux 5.4, 5.5 and 6.0

Granular Recovery support for SharePoint 2010
Recover Microsoft SharePoint 2010 server documents in seconds from a single system recovery point.

Enhanced Symantec System Recovery Management Solution
The Symantec System Recovery Management Solution is a highly scalable centralized management solution designed to centrally manage up to 2,500 Symantec System Recovery clients from a single management server. It can be installed to and hosted on a Windows 2008 R2 64-bit server.

Enhanced customizable recovery disk wizard
Additional flexibility has been added to the customizable recovery disk wizard with the option to select an .ISO image as the source for a custom recovery disk.

All-in-one backup and recovery USB device
With new wizard functionality, you can easily transform a USB device into a bootable Symantec System Recovery Disk device to help reduce boot time and speed up the recovery process. Adding this boot functionality gives you the ability to create an all-in-one backup and recovery device that contains the backup and can act as a bootable recovery media for restore operations.

Symantec System Recovery 2011 Linux Edition: Datasheet

System Requirements

Symantec System Recovery Linux Edition System Requirements

Operating System
Operating Systems Supported for Symantec System Recovery Linux Edition

• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 and 11 SP1 (x86) 32-bit
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 and 11 SP1 (x86_64 not ia64) 64-bit
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, 10 SP1, 10 SP2, and 10 SP3 (x86) 32-bit
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, 10 SP1, 10 SP2, and 10 SP3 (x86_64 not ia64) 64-bit
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, and 5.5 (x86) 32-bit
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, and 5.5 (x86_64 not ia64) 64-bit
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 (x86) 32-bit
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 (x86_64 not ia64) 64-bit

RAM
The following are the memory requirements for SUSE Linux, Red Hat Linux, and the Symantec Recovery Disk:

• SUSE Linux: 1 GB
• Red Hat Linux: 1 GB

Available hard disk space
The Symantec System Recovery for Linux installation requires 50 MB of free disk space. If you intend to install and use the option for extracting and creating a Symantec Recovery Disk, you should have at least 200 MB of disk space. You should have sufficient hard disk space on a local hard disk or network server for storing recovery points. Be aware that the file sizes of resulting recovery points are affected by the amount of data that you intend to back up.

Software

• The mount.v2i option uses Lib fuse (32-bit version). Currently, only Fuse 2.7.x is supported. Other versions of Fuse are not supported, but may work.
• createSRD uses the squashfs-tools package on RHEL for creating RHEL Symantec Recovery Disks. You must install the required squashfs-tools package on RHEL 5.x and squashfs-tools and genisoimage packages on RHEL 6.0.
• createSRD uses the squashfs-tools package on RHEL for creating RHEL Symantec Recovery Disks. You must install the required squashfs-tools package on RHEL 5.x and squashfs-tools and genisoimage packages on RHEL 6.0.

CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive
The drive can be any speed, but it must be capable of being used as the startup drive from the BIOS.

Symantec System Recovery 2011 Management Solution
(32-bit operating systems)

Processor

• Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.0 GHz or faster

RAM

• 2 GB or more

Available hard disk space

• 20 GB or more

Operating System
Enterprise and Standard editions of the following Windows operating systems are supported:

• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2

Database
Express, Standard, and Enterprise editions of the following SQL servers are supported:

• Microsoft SQL Server 2005
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008

Note: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition is included on the Symantec System Recovery 2011 Management Solution media. Symantec recommends that you install Microsoft SQL Server and Symantec System Recovery 2011 Management Solution on separate computers to avoid computer performance issues.

Software
The following must be installed on the computer on which you want to install Symantec System Recovery 2011 Management Solution:

• Microsoft Internet Information Services
• Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
• Microsoft ASP.NET
• Microsoft Internet Information Services 6.0
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 (and 8.0 in compatibility view)
• Microsoft Silverlight 3.0 or later
• Microsoft Windows Installer 4.5
• Symantec Installation Manager 7.0
• Symantec Management Platform 7.0 SP5

Note: Installation of Symantec System Recovery 2011 Management Solution is not supported on encrypted file systems. High speed Internet access is recommended at the computer where you install Symantec System Recovery 2011 Management Solution.

DVD-ROM drive

• Required for installation

Symantec System Recovery 2011 Management Solution
(64-bit operating systems)

Processor

• Dual Processor Dual Core with 2.53 GHz or faster
  Note: An Intel Itanium 2 processor is required for Windows Server 2008 R2 for Itanium-Based Systems.

RAM

• 4 GB or more

Available hard disk space

• 20 GB or more

Operating System

• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, Enterprise Edition, or Standard Edition

Database
Express, Standard, and Enterprise editions of the following SQL servers are supported:

• Microsoft SQL Server 2005
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2

Note: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express Edition is included on the Symantec System Recovery 2011 Management Solution media. Symantec recommends that you install Microsoft SQL Server and Symantec System Recovery 2011 Management Solution on separate computers to avoid computer performance issues.

Software
The following must be installed on the computer on which you want to install Symantec System Recovery 2011 Management Solution:

• Microsoft Internet Information Services
• Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
• Microsoft ASP.NET
• Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.5
  Note: The IIS 6.0 compatibility mode must be enabled.
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 (and 8.0 in compatibility view)
• Microsoft Silverlight 3.0 or later
• Symantec Installation Manager 7.1
• Symantec Management Platform 7.1

Note: Installation of Symantec System Recovery 2011 Management Solution is not supported on encrypted file systems. High speed Internet access is recommended at the computer where you install Symantec System Recovery 2011 Management Solution.

DVD-ROM drive

• Required for installation

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