page_title: Backup Exec
section_title: Core components
hierarchical_section_title: Backup Exec / Architecture / Core components
caption_attribution_description: English: An illustration of the Backup Exec solution
context_page_description: Veritas Backup Exec is a data protection software product designed for customers who have mixed physical and virtual environments, and who are moving to public cloud services. Supported platforms include VMware and Hyper-V virtualization, Windows and Linux operating systems, Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure and Google cloud storage, among others. All management and configuration operations are performed with a single user interface. Backup Exec also provides integrated deduplication, replication, and disaster recovery capabilities and helps to manage multiple backup servers or multi-drive tape loaders.
  Backup Exec has an installation process that is well automated. Installing Backup Exec 15 on a Windows Server 2012 R2 system takes around 30 minutes. The installation wizard can be started from the Backup Exec Installation Media or the management console to push agents out to the physical servers, Hyper-V/VMware virtual machines, application/database systems hosting Active Directory, Exchange, Oracle database, SQL, and other supported platforms.
context_section_description: The core components that are contained in a basic Backup Exec architecture include the following:
  A Backup Exec server is the heart of a Backup Exec installation. The Backup Exec server is a Windows server that:
  Runs the Backup Exec software and services that control backup and restore operations
  Is attached to and controls storage hardware
  Maintains the Backup Exec database, media catalogs, and device catalogs
  The Backup Exec Administration Console is the interface to control a Backup Exec server.
  The Administration Console can be run directly on a Backup Exec server or from a remote system (using a Backup Exec Remote Administration Console).
  Storage devices attached to the Backup Exec server contain the media on which backup data is written.
  Backup Exec supports many different types of devices and media, including cloud, disk-based and tape-based. Backup Exec supports unlimited number of clients, NDMP-NAS systems, tape drives, and tape libraries.
  Clients are the systems that contain the data which the Backup Exec server backs up.
  Clients can include database servers, application servers, file servers, and individual workstations.
caption: An illustration of the Backup Exec platform
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