I don't know if you've taken the plunge with a backup solution yet, but I've just had an email from Symantec about a trial for the upcoming release of the new Backup Exec (2012 R2). I've been telling people on here that I don't like 2012, as it sucks and works completely differently to the old versions. Well not only do you get to trial the new version before it's out, they list some of the features which include them adding the "Job Monitor" section back in and also you can now back-up multiple servers with just one job. That's pretty much going back to ways of the older version and would probably stop me hating it as much.
The trial can be signed up to here:
https://symbeta.symantec.com/callout/?callid=082D2918EC924087AA1F7FB1AE66B8E6