I've heard that the Replica ADSM interface for Bare Metal Restore
won't be available until 4Q99.  At the beginning of next year they do plan
to have the Replica restore from another Windows NT server on the network
available which has nothing to do with ADSM.  It will allow you to backup
your C drive, for example, to a remote server running Replica so you can
perform a bare metal restore of that drive over the network.  Then you
could forward recover with ADSM.  The piece that's coming end of 99 is what
everyone is waiting for where the Replica disk image backup is stored in an
ADSM storage pool somewhere on your network.. If what I heard is true, I
don't know why they announced the partnership so early.  Unless things were
delayed due to problems. In the interim we might be able to use both
products independently for those who feel that option is acceptable.

Jeff





Kelly Root <kroot1 AT TUELECTRIC DOT COM> on 10/12/98 05:34:17 PM

Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>

To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
cc:    (bcc: Jeffrey P Connor/IT/NMPC)
Subject:  STAC Replication




We are trying to set our Disaster Recovery Procedures for our distributed
environment. Our servers are WinNT 4.0. I called STAC Replica technical
support and they said that Replica does not currently work with ADSM. In
the conference call on February 25,1998 I thought IBM had said that Replica
DOES work with ADSM. Is anyone using Replica for 'Bare Metal Restore'??? If
not what software product are you using?

Thanks for your help.

Kelly J. Root
I/T Analyst, SR