Anyone care to share any experiences on doing Linux BMR?

I've read through the redbook "Disaster Recovery Strategies using TSM" as
well as the Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-Howto. I have AIX background,
and trying to equate things...is the stage-1 backup where you tar the system
like doing the mksysb on AIX? Except it's not bootable. How often would you
need to do this stage-1 backup? If it's not as often as my incremental
backups with TSM, then the restore with TSM would then have to include the
system files to pick up any changes....right?

Bill Boyer
"Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windshield." - ??