Veritas Backup Exec 22 is the industry-standard backup solution for SMBs and growing mid-market organisations, deployed by over 45,000 businesses worldwide. Its single-server, single-console architecture eliminates the complexity of enterprise-grade backup tools, making deployment, management, and support accessible to organisations with limited IT staff.
Backup Exec Accelerator v3, introduced in the 22.x series, delivers a step-change in backup performance for VMware and Hyper-V workloads by exploiting Windows Server ReFS Block Cloning Technology. Forever Incremental backups now run at block-level speed on ReFS volumes, dramatically compressing nightly backup windows without sacrificing recovery granularity.
Ransomware protection is a central design goal of Backup Exec 22. The anomaly detection engine monitors statistical patterns across all backup jobs — any deviation from the established baseline (file count, change rate, backup size) triggers an alert, giving administrators early warning of a potential ransomware event before the backup chain is poisoned. WORM storage target support provides a last line of defence with immutable on-premises copies.
Flexible cloud storage support spans over 15 providers including global hyperscalers and regional specialists. Backup Exec can tier aged backup sets to object storage automatically, reducing on-premises disk costs while maintaining accessible recovery points for any compliance period.