Backup & Recovery Solutions
Symantec offers a range of easy-to-use backup solutions to meet your backup needs covering File and Application Servers, Desktop, and Laptop backup.
Our product comparison will help ensure you select the right backup product to meet your small and medium-sized business backup requirements.
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Ideal for businesses with |
3 or fewer servers and/ or desktop backup |
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Award-winning server protection |
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Host and guest-level protection for VMware |
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Centralized management console |
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Support for cloud backup with no additional |
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Application protection |
Microsoft® Exchange, SQL® only | |
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Integrated deduplication |
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File-level backup |
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Incremental backup |
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To disk |
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To cloud |
Symantec Cloud | Third-party cloud* | Third-party cloud* | |
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File and folder recovery |
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Applications and databases |
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Virtual machine recovery |
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Bare metal recovery to same or different hardware |
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Dissimilar hardware recovery |
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Granular recovery of Microsoft® Exchange, SQL®, |
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Centralized search and recovery of stored data |
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End-user recovery of backed-up files |
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Physical to virtual conversion |
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Supports recovery to a new machine using system |
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Microsoft desktops |
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Microsoft Hyper-V |
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VMware ESX®/vSpere™ |
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Citrix® XenServer® |
Guest only | Guest only | Guest only | |
*Third-party cloud support via Nirvanix today
Learn more about data protection compatibility, configuration, and installation