Wow, great feedback, Scott. I was not aware that it associate
the MAC the image, but that makes some sense. Do you made
a CDROM of the image, or do you put the image on a server's
disk somewhere? How does it work? That is, how do you get the
client to talk with the server? My questions may make no sense
because I haven't seen this product yet.
We're mostly a Sun shop here, so I'm interested in that side...
however: have you had, or know of someone who has had experience with
this on Win2K servers? That's where we would probably first
install this product, due to our needs in Active Directory.
Thanks for taking the time to respond!
deb
Scott Kampen <SKampen AT verisign DOT com> had this to say,
> Hi Deb,
>
> I was a beta tester for NRM and once we got it installed and functioning, it
> really turned out to be a nice product. So far I've only tested this on a
> Sun system using a GUI interface and haven't been able to make it work on a
> standard terminal with no GUI interface, although I'm told that it works.
>
> What's nice about this product is that once you capture the current boot
> image and you want to restore to it at a later time, the product will
> restore the image and then automatically start up a restore of the files
> from tape as well...that was pretty cool.
>
> Another thing that I'm concerned about and am still testing with this
> application is how do I do an NRM restore of a system that let's say melts
> in a fire and I need to rebuild it. Sine NRM is MAC address dependant how
> can I build a system using NRM to mirror that of the one that just got
> destroyed. I'm still working on that will figure it out I'm sure...may need
> to take the new MAC address and find the file on my NRM server that keeps
> track of the MAC addresses for the systems I'm imaging using NRM and replace
> the old MAC address with the new one and just hope that it works.
>
> I'm going to be testing this concept shortly. Other than that I think there
> are some real good potentials with this product, as far as SUN disaster
> recovery are concerned.
>
> Scott
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Deb [mailto:deb AT TICKLEME.LLNL DOT GOV]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 8:40 AM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: [Networker] Networker Recovery Manager
>
>
> Has anyone heard anything about this Legato product? We need an
> imaging/disaster recovery solution for our Win2k Active Directory
> Servers. This product is supposed to allow for recovery without
> re-installing the base OS, kind of an image style restore.
>
> http://www.legato.com/products/recovery/?mode=features
>
> I would appreciate hearing about your experiences with this
> product, if it is viable and useful, whether it's worth purchasing,
> or even alternative products.
>
> Thanks,
>
> deb
>
>
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