This is a very user friendly, but not unsophisticated solution. It incorporates media spanning, which efficiently supports large backups by allowing data to flow seamlessly from one piece of media to another. Users can also choose to perform custom backups, in which they manually select data for backup from a listing of all local hard drives. By providing a variety of advanced data protection solutions for standalone systems, Backup Exec Desktop offers highly manageable and effective backups and restores at a reasonable cost. This comprehensive data protection tool for a single computer supports Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Millennium, Windows NT Workstation 4.0, and Windows 2000 Professional.
Users are able to schedule unattended backups with an advanced scheduling system.
They can easily leave out specific files from the backup and restore process with the Exclude option. Backup Exec Desktop Pro also includes a full disaster recovery capability, designed to get a user's system up and running fast in the event of complete system failure. This also enables efficient sharing of backup software and peripherals. See also the interview with Christophe Bertrand on page 12 of this issue. Professional leverages the fact that many documents, presentations, spreadsheets, electronic mail and other Windows objects never change much.