Symantec NetBackup™ 7.5 is the single backup solution when recovery is needed, whether from tape, disk, snapshot, cloud–physical or virtual. The Symantec NetBackup™ 7.5 with V-Ray technology can unify backup, deduplication, replication, snapshots, and appliances with support for VMware® and Microsoft Hyper-V® in a single product helping to reduce complexity and cost.
Here are the main features of Symantec NetBackup™ 7.5 :
1. NetBackup Replication Director
This feature integrates the power of array-based snapshot technologies with traditional backup data management. Replication Director is designed to be the single integration point between primary storage and storage array hardware and backup operations.Replication Director solves all of these issues by managing array snapshots and automating replication to any supported secondary and tertiary storage as well as tape creation. Provisioning of replicas, cataloging, and granular file recovery are all controlled by NetBackup.
2. NetBackup Accelerator
This feature facilitates intelligent, streamlined backups to disk by increasing the speed of full backups. The increase in speed is made possible by change detection techniques on the client. The client uses the change detection techniques and the client's current file system to identify changes that occurred since the last backup. The client sends the changed data to the media server in a more efficient backup stream. The media server combines the changed data with the rest of the client's data that is stored in previous backups to create a new full backup image without needing to transfer all the client data. In other words, NetBackup Accelerator provides a full backup, but at the cost and speed of an incremental backup.
3. Search and Hold
NetBackup 7.5 introduces new functionality which allows an administrator to place backups on “Hold” to prevent them expiring on the due expiration date or being manually expired by an administrator. This is accomplished with a new binary that runs on a schedule which will “Index” the existing NetBackup catalog and store the information in a database on a specified media server. This database can then be “Searched” using OpsCenter. When the data is found, and a Hold is placed, the Search process modifies the NetBackup catalog and EMM database and puts a hook in the files to prevent the data from being expired until the Hold is removed.
4. Operational Restores with OpsCenter (ORO)
Operational Restores using OpsCenter (ORO) is functionality that allows other key stakeholders within the organization to recover their own files. These stakeholders may include the Help Desk, Application owners or the VM Administrator. This feature enables searching for files across any Master and/or Client that is configured with OpsCenter and includes wildcard searches, specific file type searches as well as filtering by a number of different methods. It also includes a "Restore Cart" that allows the restores to be placed in the cart for batch restores.
5.Application Protection for VMware Virtual Machines
The last few versions of NetBackup offered extensive features for protecting VMware virtual machines, as well as application agents for Microsoft® Exchange,SharePoint®, and SQL® Server databases. However, databases could only be protected by installing the NetBackup client on the VMware virtual machine running as a database server, and backing it up as if it were a physical machine. This has changed in NetBackup 7.5. It is now possible to use the NetBackup award-winning VMware backup technology while retaining the ability to recover databases using database agents.1 This includes restoring entire databases for disaster recovery purposes as well as individual database objects such as Exchange mail messages and SharePoint documents using the NetBackup patent-pending Granular Recovery Technology (GRT).
6. VMware Policy Enhancements
The design of the NetBackup policy has been refined and improved over many years of use. As backup technologies have evolved, minor changes to the NetBackup policy have been implemented as needed. This has worked very well for network based backups. Shared storage, SAN, and NDMP transfers have also been supported but these configurations are really just variations on client backups and typically require minimal changes to the NetBackup policy.Virtual machine technologies have ramatically changed backup requirements. Standard backup agents are installed on and focus on protecting files that exist within a running operating system. Virtual machine backups can be configured this way as well.
7. Cloud Enhancements
The first integration between NetBackup and a cloud storage provider (the Nirvanix® cloud plug-in) was introduced in NetBackup 7.1. This integration, based on the OpenStorage Technology (OST) API allows customers with Nirvanix accounts to configure Nirvanix cloud storage as a storage target for NetBackup and define storage units that send backup data to the cloud storage.
Source: www.symantec.com
