Arctera Backup Exec

Advanced data protection with integrated cyber resilience across physical, virtual, and cloud.

Eliminate the need for multiple point products.

As a business owner/operator, you have to take on a lot of jobs. Data backup and recovery shouldn't be one of them. With Arctera Backup Exec, you get a simple, powerful solution that ensures your business-critical data is never at risk of being lost, stolen, or corrupted. And as your data management needs grow, Backup Exec seamlessly scales to meet them, providing confidence and cost-savings over the long term.

Arctera Backup Exec is trusted by over 45,000 businesses worldwide.

Simple

Quickly track and monitor all backup and recovery activity through an easy-to-use interface.

Secure

Protect backup data through encryption, authentication, and access control to ensure confidentiality, integrity, and safe recovery of information.

Unified

Seamlessly protect physical, virtual and cloud workloads through a single user console.

Protect your Microsoft 365 data.

Built-in protection of Exchange, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams data.

Less cost and complexity than managing multiple point products.

Full sovereignty over where your Microsoft 365 backup data is stored.

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Optimize security and compliance.

Protects your backup data from ransomware attacks.

Ensures data is compliant in every location.

Securely stores sensitive data such as credit card transactions.

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What's New

Arctera Backup Exec

Learn about new capabilities in the latest releases.

Centralized access management, improved malware detection, strengthened security and control.

New support for Windows Server 2025, new NetApp environments, and Teams Private Channels ensures protection across more platforms.

Self-Protect enhancements and restore to PST for Exchange Online offer increased recovery flexibility.

Backup Exec continues to evolve, with upcoming features like expanded support for hyperconverged and open-source virtualization platforms and Entra ID backup.

Protect critical data in the cloud.

Deployable marketplace templates for both AWS and Azure.

Certified cloud connectors for all major cloud vendors.

Support for all AWS cloud storage tiers.

Optimized storage costs and bandwidth with in-line deduplication.

Cloud data protection

Enhance protection for virtual workloads.

Forever incremental VM backups with Backup Exec Accelerator.

Extended hyper-converged environment support.

Automated discovery and protection of new VMs.

Instant recovery of VMs.

Virtual workload protection

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Simple to calculate your licensing needs.

Flexible subscription licensing.

All-in-one product offering.

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Market Leadership

Backup Exec ranks among the best business software solutions based on user ratings and social data. Our customers love using our product and we think you will, too.

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Read Our Data Protection Blogs

Data Protection

Democratizing Data Protection: The Death of the Backup Admin

In today’s evolving IT landscape, the role of a dedicated backup administrator is becoming less centralized as many organizations shift to modern technology stacks like cloud and SaaS, which are increasingly managed by IT generalists. This trend aligns with findings in Deloitte’s 2023 Global Technology Leadership Study, which highlights a growing preference for versatile IT roles to better support cross-functional needs and adaptability across multiple areas of IT. Additionally, Microsoft’s 2023 report on the "New Future of Work" supports this shift, showing how AI and automation enable generalists to work across domains without deep specialization​.

Simon Jelley, VP & GM of Data Protection, Arctera

Simon Jelley

VP & GM of Data Protection

Data Protection

Driving Product Evolution: Three Core Themes Behind Our Latest Backup Exec Release

As product managers, we are constantly striving to enhance the value we provide to our customers. The most recent updates to Backup Exec reflect a deep commitment to solving the evolving needs of businesses, ensuring greater security and control, extending support for a wider range of platforms, and portable recovery. Here’s a closer look at the motivation behind these developments and how they benefit our users.

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Jason von Eberstein

Product Manager, Data Protection

Data Protection

Cyber-attack is inevitable. Data loss need not be.

As a Product Director at Arctera, I’m especially excited about the transformative impact of Backup Exec in helping organizations combat critical data threats, with ransomware standing out as one of the most pervasive challenges. Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in particular often face challenges such as limited resources and growing complexity, making it difficult to safeguard critical information. This is where Backup Exec comes in - offering a reliable, simple, and cost-effective solution to protect against data loss resulting from ransomware, malware and insider attacks, irrespective of where that data lives – on-premises in physical and virtual infrastructures, in cloud data platforms or in Microsoft 365.

Headshot of Barnaby Wood, Director of Product Management, Backup Exec, Arctera

Barnaby Wood

Director of Product Management, Backup Exec, Arctera

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