Review: Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery 8

By Aaron Weiss
July 10, 2008
Let’s be honest ‑ for many of us, backing up our PC, while very important, often falls somewhere behind eating our vegetables and working out three times a week. Oh sure, we read the stories of calamity that befalls other people who haven’t done their backups ‑ like the architectural firm lost $2.5M worth of plans when a disgruntled employee deleted them. The small business incurred several thousands of dollars in costs to pay a data-recovery firm to retrieve what could have been restored in minutes with a proper backup.

Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery 8 (Desktop Edition) may possess an unwieldy name, but it represents the veteran vendor’s latest evolution in streamlining the backup process. Additionally, Backup Exec System Recovery 8 (BESR8) separates system and data from hardware, which lets you restore backups on different hardware or even migrating system images between physical and virtual machines.

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