Backup Exec (tm) allows backing up and restoring of utility partitions. Utility partitions are usually small partitions installed on the disk by original equipment manufacturer (OEM) vendors like Dell, Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, and IBM. These utility partitions contain system diagnostic and configuration utilities.

If utility partitions are on a system, the Utility Partition node appears as a resource within the Backup Selections tab (Figure 1).

Figure 1
 

Administrator rights are required to browse and back up utility partitions. If there are no utility partitions on the system, this resource is unavailable for backup. Only a full backup of utility partitions can be performed. It is possible to select individual utility partition resources, which appear as Utility Partition On Disk
%disk_number%(for example, Utility Partition On Disk 0) when the Utility Partition node is expanded.