I'm going to jump in here with both feet, because I keep seeing the 'Bare
Metal Restore' stuff come up. I may be suffering from too narrow a
viewpoint, but from where I sit, BMR during a disaster recovery must work
EXACTLY like BMR back home. And the implication is that I have NO running
systems at start. (I can get away with this, because we've done exactly ONE
restore that would qualify as 'bare metal' here at NIBCO in the past 6
years. If I go back any further, we need to talk about BMR for MVS/ESA and
GCOS-3).

So, to even consider the process, I need full BMR of the BMR server (if it's
a seperate box) AND the TSM server.

Or, to put it slightly differently, I've a box of LTO tape and A (ONE)
bootable install media for ONE system. The requirement is to get everything
up from there. The Veritas website seems to be broken -- not getting any
information about BMR; is AIX a supported platform for the BMR server?

Sorry -- I'll go crawl back under my rock :-)

Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:GEOFFREY.L.GILL AT SAIC DOT COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 1:08 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: BareMetalRestore
>
>
> There has been a lot of discussion on bare metal restore with
> TSM and other
> products. It seems we're all held hostage to purchase
> expensive products
> that have this capability. Unfortunately in times like this
> we've all had
> our budgets cut, at least I have, and would like our software vendors,
> IBM/TIVOLI in this case, to make their products more robust.
> After all we do
> send them maintenance money for software updates and expect
> the product to
> get better.
>
> I'm just wondering how serious IBM is about getting TSM to
> "WORK" with the
> various OS software vendors, i.e. Microsoft, HP, Compaq, Sun
> and the like,
> to find out what it takes to get it's product to do bare
> metal restores. If
> TKG could make it work why can't IBM? Or don't these guys talk to each
> other?
>
> My little rant for the day!!!!!
> Geoff Gill
> TSM Administrator
> NT Systems Support Engineer
> SAIC
> E-Mail:    <mailto:gillg AT saic DOT com> gillg AT saic DOT com
> Phone:  (858) 826-4062
> Pager:   (877) 905-7154
>