Well, it's also a big pain in the tush for me to explain to mgmt why I'm
budgeting for a BMR tool for our 600 Windows servers even though we
already hand over a boatload of $$ to Tivoli for a backup product,
because I have to have something I can depend on to perform dissimilar
hardware restores.

I just don't think it could be that difficult for Tivoli to come up with
a boot cd like they use for ServerGuide that is "TSM aware" and capable
of hardware detection.

-Steve Schaub

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Allen S. Rout
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 5:35 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Will TSM ever support BMR for windows systems?

>> On Tue, 5 Dec 2006 15:15:47 -0600, "Dearman, Richard"
<rdearm1 AT UIC DOT EDU> said:


> Does anyone know if Tivoli is working on a product that will support 
> BMR on windows systems.  I know Cristie can be used but I don't want 
> another third party product and ASR recovery on Win2003 takes forever.

> You would think that TSM would be able to clone or ghost a windows 
> system at least.


Huge pain in the tush, for no return.  Other folks have that space very
nicely explored, and BMR for [platform A] just encourages folks to ask
for it for the rest of them.

- Allen S. Rout
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