Symantec Backup Exec™ System Recovery 8 is the gold standard in complete Windows® system recovery, allowing businesses and IT to recover from system loss or disaster in minutes, not hours or days, even when recovering to dissimilar hardware and virtual environments. Helping IT administrators meet recovery time objectives, Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery provides rapid, easy-to-use system restoration or full "bare-metal" recovery for servers, desktops, or laptops. It also enables you to recover systems in remote, unattended locations.

Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery captures a recovery point of the entire Windows system-including operating system, applications, system settings, configurations, and files- without impacting user productivity. This recovery point can be conveniently saved to various disk storage devices, including SAN, NAS, direct attached storage, RAID, CD/DVD, etc. When systems fail, you can quickly restore them without manual, lengthy, and error-prone processes.