Recently I received the "dog and pony" show from EMC on their Data Domain and 
Avamar products, which they suggest is the "next step" in progressing my 
NetWorker backup solution.  I agree with them in that dedup and/or bare metal 
recovery (BMR) would be an enhancement to a backup solution.  It got me to 
thinking...

What do you, as my fellow backup admins, feel is a higher priority, dedup or 
BMR?

Personally, I feel that BMR would be the service that I, as a systems admin, 
would want from a backup solution.  I realize that some products, such as EMC's 
Avamar product, can do both BMR and dedup; so you CAN have your cake and eat it 
too, but it comes with the EMC sticker shock too...

Just curious as to what others have done or are doing in progressing their 
backup solutions.  Any shared insight is greatly appreciated.

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