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Long recognized as the market leader of enterprise backup
and recovery software, Veritas NetBackup™ is built to protect
the largest and most demanding data center environments. Virtual Dedupe Everywhere Information

NetBackup delivers breakthrough capabilities for virtualized Physical Appliances Applications

systems that go well beyond what traditional backup practices Local / Remote Local / Remote Local / Remote

can achieve. A single, intuitive management console reveals all Snapshots / CDP Retention Mgmt Multi-Domain

backup and recovery activity, allowing consistent policies and Data Security Catalog / Index Granular Recovery

service levels to be enforced across the enterprise. Centralize Disk - Tape - Cloud Disaster Recovery

NetBackup Unified Data Protection

• Comprehensive—As a single solution to protect all of
your data assets, NetBackup provides support for virtually
every popular server, storage, hypervisor, database, and Figure 1. NetBackup offers reliable, scalable data protection across

application platform used in the enterprise today. 1 the enterprise with a single, comprehensive solution.

• Scalable—High performance, elastic automation, and

centralized management based on a flexible, multitier Feature highlights in NetBackup 7.7
architecture enables NetBackup to adapt to the growing
• Copilot for Oracle®—Revolutionary new way to protect and
needs of a fast-paced, modern enterprise data center.
manage Oracle database data. Oracle DBAs maintain control
• Integrated—From backup appliances to big data platforms, over primary backup and recovery operations while secondary
NetBackup integrates at every point in the technology operations (duplication, replication, cataloguing) are managed
stack to improve reliability and performance. OpenStorage by NetBackup admins and policies. This feature requires the
Technology (OST) provides even tighter integration with NetBackup Appliance.
third-party storage and snapshot solutions.
• Accelerator for NDMP—Extends the Accelerator feature to
• Innovative—With hundreds of patents awarded in areas protect NetApp® systems via the NDMP protocol. Full backup
including backup, recovery, virtualization, deduplication, times are reduced to a fraction of what they would normally be.
and snapshot management, NetBackup continues a long
• Enhanced Amazon ® S3 Cloud Connector—Significantly
tradition of bringing advanced technologies to market first.
increases backup and recovery performance to Amazon® S3
No backup software has won Best of VMworld as many
cloud storage. Cloud storage providers that use S3 protocols
times as NetBackup.2
can be supported (after a certification process), greatly
• Proven—For over a decade, NetBackup has led the industry expanding the available selection of cloud storage providers.
as the most popular enterprise data protection software by
• Intelligent Policy for Microsoft® Hyper-V and SQL
market share and is used by many of the largest enterprises
Server®—Extends the Intelligent Policy feature to include
on the planet. When you need your data back, you can trust
Hyper-V and SQL Server policies, allowing new virtual
NetBackup.
machines and instances to be discovered and protected,
and simplifying other aspects of management.

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For more information, please refer to the NetBackup Master Compatibility List.
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• Console plug-ins for Hyper-V and VMware®—A new • Virtual systems—NetBackup integrates with leading
Hyper-V “add-in” for Microsoft® System Center Virtual hypervisors including VMware and Hyper-V. Backup operators
Machine Manager (SCVMM) will give VM admins direct control won’t notice the difference between physical and virtual
over certain backup and restore operations. A new VMware systems as files are restored without mounting and browsing
plug-in based on the VMware vSphere web client will provide
®
the VM. Backups occur without agents at the image level
many of the same capabilities as the previous C# plug-in, and the complete contents of the VM are visible and indexed
while also adding the ability for VM admins to launch Instant for restore.
Recovery operations.
• Databases and applications—To preserve transactional
• NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP support­—NetApp’s
®
consistency and manage log truncation during hot backup,
scale-out architecture is based on Clustered Data ONTAP, NetBackup integrates with leading relational database,
also called cDOT. In order to support this next generation messaging, application, and big data platforms, including IBM
NetApp environment, NDMP and Replication Director require DB2®, IBM Informix, IBM Lotus Domino®, Microsoft Active
special integration with cDOT. Directory ®, Microsoft® Exchange Server, Microsoft Office
SharePoint® Server, Microsoft SQL Server ®, Oracle, SAP
• VMware ® Virtual Volume support—Extends NetBackup
HANA, SAP R/3, SAP Sybase®, and others.
workload support to include vSphere 6 storage based on
Virtual Volumes (VVOL). • Storage systems—NetBackup protects data at the storage
system level by integrating with various snapshot, replication,
• Veritas NetBackup™ Self Service—Offers business users
and NDMP facilities available on storage systems from EMC®,
a single “store front” to perform self-service backups and
HP, Hitachi, IBM®, NetApp, and others.
restores using custom-designed interfaces. A single instance
can register multiple tenants to allow secure separation. • Cloud platforms—NetBackup integrates with VMware®
Flexible forms and workflows cater to most self-service vCloud Suite to protect the metadata catalog that defines
needs. SLA measurement, notification, and reporting make the virtual data center and the various relationships between
it easy to manage. vApps and virtual machines within the cloud.

• Integration with Veritas™ Information Map—Provides a

graphical overview of an organization’s data, including volume,
location, and certain other metadata attributes. This separate
NetBackup 7.7
offering utilizes NetBackup catalog data to populate its
database.

Protect any workload

One of the hallmarks of enterprise IT is its heterogeneity. The

Physical Infrastructure Virtualized Infrastructure
wide variety of platforms, applications, and infrastructure often & Backup Team & VM Team

grows with the size of the enterprise. NetBackup supports

Unified Data Protection
a vast array of environments and integrates with every layer
of the infrastructure stack to help assure reliable, consistent
backups every time. Figure 2. NetBackup unifies backup and recovery tasks across
physical and virtual machine environments.
• Operating systems—NetBackup integrates with dozens of
server operating system (OS) versions, including Microsoft
Windows®, Linux®, and UNIX® files, directories, attributes,
system states, and other metadata. In most cases, files can
be protected while open and in use.

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Break the backup window • Off-host backup with snapshots—For systems that cannot
tolerate even the slightest impact, use hardware snapshots
It’s not uncommon for IT organizations to report data growth
to perform an off-host backup on an alternate server, all
of 40-60 percent per year. To keep up, you need backups that
orchestrated by NetBackup.
run as fast as possible without disrupting production activity.
NetBackup combines innovative design with the latest technical
Backup over low bandwidth networks
advancements to deliver impressive performance numbers
with minimal impact. Whether backing up a remote office, a cloud-hosted workload,
or a customer site as part of a backup service, backups over a
• Accelerator—Eliminate full backups once and for all. With
wide area network (WAN) or the Internet must be as efficient
NetBackup Accelerator, only changed blocks are backed up
as possible. NetBackup leverages the latest change tracking
each time. These blocks are combined with previous backups
and deduplication technologies to make these backups not just
to synthesize a new full backup for quick recovery.
possible, but practical.
• Snapshots—Let the storage system run backups for
• Extreme data reduction—By combining NetBackup
you. With NetBackup Replication Director, snapshots are
Accelerator change tracking with NetBackup Intelligent Client
orchestrated, cataloged, and replicated using storage
Deduplication, backup traffic is further reduced and full
technologies from vendors such as NetApp and EMC.
backup seeding is noticeably faster.
• Near-continuous data protection (CDP)—By scheduling
• WAN optimization with NetBackup Appliance—By staging
frequent Accelerator or snapshot backups every few minutes,
backups at the remote location on a NetBackup appliance,
it is possible to achieve near-CDP, thereby limiting data loss
WAN optimization can further increase performance by
and improving recovery point objectives (RPO).
as much as ten times when backups are transferred to the
• Scale up with high speed interconnects—NetBackup primary site.
supports all major network topologies, including Fibre
Channel, iSCSI, and InfiniBand for high performance.

• Scale out through multitasking—Circumvent performance

bottlenecks with multistreaming, multiplexing, and automatic
load balancing.

Figure 3. Veritas NetBackup™ 5230 is an integrated enterprise backup

Backup non-disruptively
appliance with expandable storage and intelligent deduplication.

In today’s online world, enterprises don’t sleep. Customers

expect responsiveness, not sluggishness, so backups must not
interfere with critical operations. NetBackup is engineered to Choose your storage
help you minimize disruption to your production environment
A lot has changed since the days of traditional tape backup.
without compromising your data.
Enterprises now have many choices where they store backups.
• VM load balancing—NetBackup VM Intelligent Policies NetBackup integrates this diverse collection of storage targets
automatically avoid overloading hypervisors or VM hosts by without compromising manageability.
preventing too many VM backups from running concurrently.
• Purpose-Built Backup Appliances (PBBA)—NetBackup
• Limit network utilization—Restrict network usage by setting uses its OST interface to integrate with a wide range PBBAs
bandwidth limits within NetBackup. If that’s not enough, to enable capabilities such as Optimized Synthetics and Auto
totally eliminate network impacts by configuring a private Image Replication (AIR).
Ethernet or switching to Fibre Channel. NetBackup supports a
• Disk—Ordinary disk volumes can be organized into disk pools
variety of possible network topologies.
under NetBackup control. Policies automatically distribute job
load and manage capacity so that jobs do not fail due to out of
space conditions.
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• Storage system snapshots—NetBackup can orchestrate • Client encryption—Encrypt data at the client or source with
hardware snapshots using proprietary capabilities from AES 256-bit encryption to help secure data from the moment
vendors such as NetApp and EMC. Available for lightning-fast it takes flight over the network.
recovery, snapshots can be replicated or duplicated to other
• Media server encryption—Shift processing off production
storage targets using NetBackup policies.
systems by encrypting data after it reaches the media server
• Tape—The workhorse for traditional backup architectures or storage target.
of the past, tape has evolved into a common choice for long
• Key management service (KMS)—Encrypt data on tape
term archival. NetBackup brings mainframe-class media
using hardware-based encryption capabilities available on
management to a massive selection of supported tape drive
certain tape drives supporting the SCSI T10 encryption
and robotic hardware configurations.
standard.
• Cloud—Ideal for archival, cloud storage offers a cost-
effective alternative to tape that also obviates the need for Media Server Options

offsite media management. NetBackup supports a growing Client/Source Media NetBackup NetBackup
Servers Servers 2 Appliances 5000 series
list of third-party cloud storage providers that can be easily Appliances

incorporated into NetBackup policies. VMs

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Store efficiently
Built-in Dedupe Built-in Dedupe Backup Server Global Dedupe
Virtual/Physical Media Server Appliance with 32 TB to 192 TB+
It is estimated that as much as 60 percent of enterprise disk Built-in Dedupe

storage is consumed by copy data. It doesn’t have to be that Dedupe Everywhere

way. NetBackup can help you reduce disk storage requirements
without sacrificing recoverability. Figure 4. NetBackup gives you the flexibility to deduplicate everywhere,
including at the source or target.
• Intelligent Deduplication—NetBackup deduplication can
shrink backups by as much as 99 percent, significantly
reducing disk storage requirements. NetBackup doesn’t
Store off-site for disaster recovery
blindly treat all streams equally, but intelligently recognizes
object boundaries to enable higher deduplication rates. No business will survive if it keeps its data in one place.
Protect your business from natural disasters and site outages
• Dedupe everywhere—NetBackup gives you the flexibility
by keeping a copy off-site. NetBackup can help you automate
to deduplicate at the source or target. Client deduplication
disaster recovery (DR) readiness by storing backups off-site
shrinks data before it travels over the network, while media
regardless of what storage or transport is used.
server deduplication shifts processing off production servers.
• Auto Image Replication (AIR)—With NetBackup AIR,
• Storage tiering—Storage tiering reduces storage costs
backup images and catalogs are automatically replicated
by moving data to cheaper storage as it ages. NetBackup
over a network to other NetBackup domains on-premises or
Storage Lifecycle Policies automate this entire process,
in the cloud, according to preset policies. Daily changes are
managing schedules and retention times for each tier.
imported and ready for restore or deduplication to tape. AIR
images can have different retention settings and be replicated
Store securely
in many-to-one or one-to-many for virtually unlimited DR
Backups can be one of the most overlooked security possibilities.
vulnerabilities, especially when those backups are transported
• Snapshot replication—Hardware snapshots created
or stored off-site by a third-party. Whether those backups are
using NetBackup Replication Director can be automatically
held by a records management vendor or cloud storage provider,
replicated to other storage systems at off-site locations,
NetBackup provides that extra level of security you need to
all under the control of NetBackup. These replicas follow
keep your data safe from prying eyes.
NetBackup retention policies and are available for recovery,
replication, or duplication to tape or dedupe disk.
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• Tape vaulting—NetBackup Vault automates the tedious at which backups hold the data you need.
process of offsite tape management. Vault automatically
• GRT for applications—NetBackup application agents index
ejects the proper tapes from a robotic library, tracks the
Exchange, SharePoint, and Active Directory backups to
movement of tapes to and from off-site storage facilities,
enable restores at the email, document, or object level.
and prints daily reports to include with the daily shipment
or email to your records management vendor. • GRT for VMs—NetBackup indexes the contents of VMs so
files can be restored from a VM image backup without first
Rescue your business recovering or mounting the entire VM.

The unthinkable happens. Services are down and the clock • GRT for hardware snapshots—NetBackup Replication
is ticking. There’s no time to waste: it’s time to recover from Director indexes storage system snapshots allowing the file
backup. NetBackup is ready with fast, reliable recovery options contents to be selectable and restorable with NetBackup.
to get your systems up and running as quickly as possible.
Deploy quickly
• Instant Recovery for VMware—Recover VMs by booting
them directly from backup disk. After the VM is running you Experienced IT professionals know how difficult it can be to
can use VMware® vMotion™ to move the VM back to primary deploy or upgrade backup systems. Not only do backup servers
storage. Even very large VMs can be online within a few and storage require their own care and feeding, but backups
minutes. interact with just about every server, storage, or network
component in the data center. NetBackup eases this burden
• Snapshot recovery—Roll systems back to an earlier point in
and offers a fully integrated, turnkey appliance that combines
time by recovering an online hardware snapshot orchestrated
software with server and storage.
by NetBackup Replication Director.
• Agentless backup for VMs—Agents within VMs are
• Optimized synthetics—Synthesize equivalent full backups
unnecessary for backups, greatly simplifying the deployment
from previous backups, eliminating the need for actual full
and maintenance of backup software across a virtual
backups and allowing full restores to quickly stream from a
environment.
single backup image.
• Agent software distribution—Agent deployment, upgrade,
• NetBackup Bare Metal Restore™—Quickly prepare a physical
and maintenance operations are simplified with agent push
system for restore, eliminating the need to reinstall an OS or
install tools.
manually configure hardware and install drivers.
• Automated hardware configuration—NetBackup wizards
• Blue sky recovery—Recover your physical Windows systems
assist setup, discover hardware, verify connectivity, and
into a virtual environment or “blue sky” with NetBackup
check for the most common problems within a variety of
physical-to-virtual (P2V) image conversion.
hardware, snapshot, and robotic tape drive environments.
• Other recovery features—True image restore speeds
• NetBackup appliance family—For the fastest deployments,
recovery by preventing obsolete data from being restored.
consider deploying NetBackup appliances. NetBackup
Application-consistent backups ensure application recovery
appliances come preinstalled with all necessary hardware and
is faster by eliminating the need for lengthy database
software components and can be set up within minutes. Much
consistency repairs.
of the hassle of integration, testing, and performance tuning
are eliminated, while support for the entire hardware and
Restore only what you need
software environment is provided by one vendor.
Why recover an entire database to restore one email, or mount
an entire VM or snapshot to restore one file? With NetBackup
you don’t have to. NetBackup Granular Recovery Technology
(GRT) indexes the contents of data sources, making it easy to
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Streamline operations • Advanced business-context reporting—NetBackup

OpsCenter Analytics provides contextual reporting based
With constant pressures of relentless data growth and
on line-of-business, geography, or application across a
escalating service requests, IT is always challenged to do more
heterogeneous environment.
with less. NetBackup helps you maximize staff productivity so
you can invest more in your core business. • Long-term trending and analysis—Better predict backup
storage consumption by tracking growth rates over time,
• Centralized, policy-based management—All NetBackup
including pre- and post-deduplication, for easier ROI tracking,
policies, schedules, and other settings are configured from a
and deduplication rates.
single management console enforced by the NetBackup master
server which controls a number of media servers (data movers). • Service-level compliance and chargeback—Threshold-
based reporting helps ensure service level compliance and the
• Elastic automation—NetBackup intelligent policies for virtual
ability to consolidate and allocate costs across backup and
machines and databases automatically discover new VMs and
archive services using pricing models that are defined to help
database instances, including them in future backups to help
meet the business need.
you ensure all data is protected.

• Cross-domain management—Bridge together multiple

NetBackup domains and multiple product versions for easier
management and control.

• Customized alerting and real-time monitoring—Manage

by exception with easy-to-use sort and filter capabilities for
better troubleshooting, work prioritization, and control of the
backup environment.

• NetBackup appliance monitoring—Extensive monitoring and

alert notification on the status and health of any NetBackup
Appliances under management.

• Operational Restore—A single Web portal for self-service

restores, NetBackup Operational Restore allows you to search
across all backups and all systems simultaneously. Search Figure 5. OpsCenter Analytics provides hierarchical, business-level
results appear within seconds and users can refine or cancel views for better forecasting, cost analysis, and service level attainment.
them as needed to find and restore files fast.

• Other management features—A robust command line

Transform backup to transform your business
interface and pre/post command operations allow for
extensive automation through scripting. The future of enterprise-class data protection is here.
NetBackup 7.7 reduces the staggering complexity of enterprise
Plan for the future data protection through comprehensive integration, a
converged platform to trivialize infrastructure management,
No successful organization stands still. There are always
and efficiencies through automation and self-service operation.
improvements to make, processes to optimize, and costs to
NetBackup outpaces the relentless growth of the data
reduce. NetBackup provides extensive reporting and analytics
center with innovative performance technologies, efficient
to help understand past results and clarify the road ahead.
storage techniques, and by providing fast, easy recovery

• Point-and-click operational reporting—NetBackup for any data you need. As IT transforms from cost center

OpsCenter quickly identifies tape drive utilization, success to business enabler, NetBackup is engineered to solve the

rates, and unprotected areas across NetBackup. diverse challenges of today and tomorrow, and ultimately give
organizations the confidence to move faster and take bigger
risks trusting that their information will be safe.
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