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Re: [Networker] Backup next step: dedup or BMR, or both?

2010-03-19 11:44:07
Subject: Re: [Networker] Backup next step: dedup or BMR, or both?
From: Francis Swasey <Frank.Swasey AT UVM DOT EDU>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:43:13 -0400
On 3/19/10 9:52 AM, tbirkenbach wrote:
> 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.

BMR, definitely.  If you have Windows 2008, you don't get BMR with any EMC 
product (including
AVAMAR) yet....

-- 
Frank Swasey                    | http://www.uvm.edu/~fcs
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