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[Veritas-bu] IDR versus Bare metal restore

2002-07-04 21:31:10
Subject: [Veritas-bu] IDR versus Bare metal restore
From: Fabbro.Andrew AT cnf DOT com (Fabbro, Andrew P)
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 18:31:10 -0700
Having just had my BMR indoctrination, er, marketing presentation, I 
can report that BMR is for Windows, too.

One thing that disappointed me about BMR is that it doesn't rebuild/recreate
volumes on non-Veritas platforms.  i.e., rebuilding
Solaris+Veritas Volume manager is fine, but not AIX's native logical
volume manager.  I don't remember how it handles Windows volumes.

The biggest disappointment vis-a-vis Windows is that it doesn't
have any support for dissimilar hardware.  It just blasts the registry
(or whatever it's called; I'm a Unix geek ;) back as-is.

Also, there are some limitations in selecting restores.  It just tries
to rebuild to the most recent, which may not be what you want in a DR
situation with a limited tape set.   

All-in-all, BMR isn't really designed for disaster recovery, but it sounds
like Veritas will be growing the product to handle DR, and there
may be ways to wrangle it to handle DR.

-Drew Fabbro <fabbro.andrew AT cnf DOT com>

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