I was just about to post the same question. Guess we wait for the patch, and run fully functional, granular backups with the SharePoint powershell in the meantime. Which will, of course, make the boss wonder why we have to pay for the bexec sharepoin...
I'm not real impressed, either:
http://support.veritas.com/docs/348210
25gig Exchange backups SCREAM over from the ISCSI to the backup raid5 array at 1.5g/minute. 40gig of Word documents takes 8 hours with a final rate of <50mb/minute.