Symantec LiveState Recovery Rapid and Reliable System and Data Recovery

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Symantec LiveState RecoveryRapid and Reliable
System and Data Recovery
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A G E N D A

• Business Disruption Challenges
• The Symantec Solution
• Benefits/New Features
• Use-Case Scenarios
• Integration with Existing Environments

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Causes of Business Disruption

• Failed Application/Patch Installation
• Malicious Attacks
• Hardware Failure
• System Upgrades
• User Error

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The Solution Symantec LiveState Recovery 3.0
(formerly V2i Protector)

• Symantec LiveState Recovery is a disk-based, hot
  imaging, system and data recovery solution that
  delivers rapid recovery of critical information
  as well as complete bare metal systems in minutes.

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Leveraging our Patented Technology

• Symantec LiveState Recovery allows organizations
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• Perform bare metal restorations or recover
  individual files or folders in minutes
• Create full and incremental backups throughout
  the day without interrupting user productivity or
  application usage
• Restore failed or crippled systems back to an
  exact point in time - without taking hours to
  rebuild, reconfigure and restore systems from
  tape or other offline media

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Symantec LiveState Recovery Benefits

• Extremely fast bare-metal recovery
• Create real-time while-you-work backups
• Capture entire system live state, including all
  files, configurations and settings, in one
  easy-to-manage and portable backup file
• Save backups to virtually any disk-storage device
• Full and Incremental backups and point-in-time
  recovery
• Scheduled/automated backups
• Mount backup image files as read-only drives
• No need for customized recovery floppies

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Symantec LiveState Recovery 3.0NEW Features

• Event Driven Backup
• Automatically backup your system when events
  occur that could threaten its stability for
  example a new application installation or storage
  upgrade (Advanced Server and Desktop editions)
• Remote Recovery
• Remotely restore (through embedded Symantec
  pcAnywhere host technology) servers and desktops
  using the Symantec Recovery Disk included on the
  product CD
• Performance Throttling
• Adjust system usage performance dynamically to
  more effectively utilize resources
• Convert from simple disk to dynamic disk and vice
  versa

To perform the remote recovery function, you
must have a full license of Symantec pcAnywhere.
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Symantec LiveState Recovery 3.0NEW Features

• Microsoft VSS Integration
• Set databases that are Microsoft Volume Shadow
  Copy Service (VSS)-aware to the quiet state
  during snapshots without actually taking them
  offline
• Consolidating Backup Sets
• Simplify management of snapshots and minimize
  storage requirements by consolidating incremental
  snapshots (Advanced Server and Desktop editions)
• Rapid Backup of Systems and Data
• Back up data faster through improved snapshot
  process
• Symantec Recovery Disk
• Use the Symantec Recovery Disk to restore
  systems, perform virus scans, check disk
  integrity and retrieve files or folders.

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Symantec LiveState Recovery Product Family
Components

• Symantec LiveState Recovery Advanced Server 3.0
• Client Agent
• Management Console
• Backup Image Browser
• Symantec LiveState Recovery Desktop 3.0
• Client Agent
• TaskPad
• Backup Image Browser
• Symantec LiveState Recovery Standard Server 3.0
• Scaled down version of Advanced Server edition.
  No event-driven backup, incrementals,
  consolidating images, writing directly to CD/DVD
  and no disk-to-disk copy

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Symantec LiveState Recovery System Requirements
Requires the Microsoft .NET Framework Service
Pack. .NET requires an additional 40MB of disk
space.
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Symantec LiveState Recovery Product
FamilyUse-Case Scenarios

• Recover from a corrupt operating system (I.e.
  virus/worm)
• Recover from failed application installation
  (I.e. Change Management)
• Complete Disaster Bare Metal Recovery
• Recover from a user error, accidental file
  deletion or corruption
• Migrate/Share images, data and applications
  between servers

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Symantec LiveState Recovery Product
FamilyAdvantages

• Streamline point-in-time bare metal recovery
• Significantly reduce a systems Time-to-Recovery
  to ensure organizations can meet established
  Recovery Time Objectives (RTO)
• Facilitate best practices for disk-to-disk-to-tape
  (D2D2T) implementation
• Ensure system availability, including databases,
  while performing real-time backup and recovery
  operations
• Improve reliability of data and system recovery

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The Difference
Restoring From Tape Backup
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Virtual Volume Fundamentals
ORIGINAL VOLUME
VIRTUALIZE
BROWSE
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Incorporating Symantec LiveState Recovery in a
Tape Environment

• Using existing disk storage SAN, NAS, RAID
• 1st level of protection
• Maximize tape backup investments

Server backup stored on local network disk (NAS)
Aged backups sent to tape for archival
Live production server
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Integrating Security, Systems Storage
Management with Symantec Threat Management

• Threat

• Vulnerabilities

• Attack

SEA platform
Alert Action Policies
Recover from Attack
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QA