Veritas Backup Exec provides powerful, simple, secure, and unified data protection solution for small and midsize businesses (SMB), helping to ensure their business-critical data is never at risk of being lost, stolen or corrupted. A single pane of glass protecting our customer’s on-premises and SaaS workloads.

Backup Exec Simple Edition licensing introduced in Backup Exec 22.0 provides a simplified and streamlined licensing model that includes all Backup Exec feature and functionality. Backup Exec Perpetual SKU’s will reach End of Sale as of April 3^rd, 2023.  This will include all Custom Edition licenses, V-Ray edition, and Bronze/Silver/Gold capacity and instance-based licenses. The renewals SKUs for these licenses will be available for all of 2023.

What's new in Backup Exec 22.2:

• Anomaly Detection. Backups are flagged when anomalies are detected in backup data that doesn’t conform to normal or common patterns. Alerts to changes in your protected data allowing you to react to a potential events

• Enhanced Forever Incremental Backups. Forever Incremental to ReFS B2D uses ReFS Deduplication Cloning Technology. Lowest hardware requirements for Forever Incremental Backups.

• Antivirus Exclusion Recommendations. Antivirus software can cause issues with backups such as job failures, processes locked or relatively poor performance. New alerts with link to recommendations for antivirus scan exclusions to improve performance.

• Support for New Cloud Storage Regions. Backup Exec users benefit from cloud storage choices through support for the following cloud storage regions, enabling greater flexibility and economy:

  • AWS Instant retrieval for AWS China, AWS Gov Fips and AWS Gov options

  • SCloud storage regions: Jakarta, Singapore, Vietnam,  Bangkok

  • Chunghwa telecom cloud deduplication

To learn more about what’s included in this release, make sure to watch the included announcement video and visit veritas.com/protection/backup-exec.

Base and upgrade installers

Click Base and upgrade installers to view the files associated with this product version. Check the box next to each file that you wish to download, then click Download. The Download button will appear once you check the first file. After you click Download, you may be prompted to select a Veritas Entitlement Management System (VEMS) account. If you are asked to select a VEMS account, select the account that you wish to be the account of record for your download transaction.

To download files in the Base and upgrade installers section:

• You must have a Veritas account. If you do not have a Veritas account, you can create one by clicking Sign in at the top of the page and then clicking Create one.
• Your Veritas account ID (email address) must be registered as a user of a VEMS account that holds an entitlement for the product with an Entitled Version (displayed in VEMS) that is greater than or equal to this product';s'; version.
• Your Veritas account ID must have either the VEMS Administrator or Download Software privilege.
• You must log in with this Veritas account. To log in, click Sign in.

Note: You may not be entitled to download all files listed as some Veritas product offerings entitle different file sets. For example, some product offerings vary by platform (Windows, Linux, Unix, etc.). In these cases you will only be able to download files for the platforms entitled by your VEMS entitlements.

To view which products and versions you are entitled to download, log into VEMS by clicking Licensing on Support home page. Once logged in, click Entitlements at the top of the page. Locate the entitlements for this product and verify that the Entitled Version for at least one entitlement for the product is greater than or equal to the version of the product you want to download. You will not be able to download the product if the version of the product you want to download is greater than the Entitled Version of all of the entitlements for the product.

The Download Center records all download transactions. After you click Download, you may be prompted to select a Veritas Entitlement Management System (VEMS) account. Select the VEMS account you wish to be the account of record for your download transaction.

Updates

Click Updates to view all software updates associated with this version of the product. Click the Update name to view the full details of the update and to download its files. Check the box next to each file that you wish to download, then click Download. The Download button will appear once you check the first file.

To download files in the Updates section:

• You must have a Veritas account. If you do not have a Veritas account, you can create one by clicking Sign in at the top of the page and then clicking Create one.
• You must log in with this Veritas account. To log in, click Sign in.
• Some updates require that you purchased a maintenance contract and that your contract was active at the time the update was release. If so, your Veritas account ID (email address) will need to be a registered user of a Veritas Entitlement Management System (VEMS) account that holds an entitlement for one of the product releases listed in the update's' Applies to the following releases section.
• If you are not a registered user of any VEMS accounts that entitles the download, you will be prompted to enter an Entitlement Code. Enter either a VEMS entitlement ID or appliance serial number. If the Entitlement Code can be matched to a VEMS entitlement that can entitle the download, you will be able to download the update. VEMS entitlement IDs and the appliance serial numbers can be found on on your Veritas Certificate or can be provided by registered VEMS user.

The Download Center records all download transactions. After you click Download, you may be prompted to select a VEMS account. Select the VEMS account you wish to be the account of record for your download transaction.

Getting Help

If you are having any trouble downloading files you think you should be able to download, first contact someone within your company that has administrative access to your VEMS account(s). If you still need assistance, you can chat with us from the Support homepage or contact us.