--- "King, Cheryl" <cheryl.king AT intrado DOT com> wrote:

> I turned TIR on once because a consultant said to
> get a true image you
> have to have that on.  I turned it off because I
> couldn't get to the
> files level on the restore screen.  We do a lot of
> individual file
> restores it seems.  I read the manual, of course,
> and can see that it
> makes sense for rebuilding a whole server but
> couldn't really see using
> for our situation.  I'd be interested in hearing
> from other people that
> use it and why. 
>  
> I haven't looked into IDR so I'd be interested in
> hearing about that as
> well.  To recover or rebuild a server, we install
> the OS ,
> maintenance/service pack, and apps, install
> NetBackup client, then
> restore data.  On Windows we would restore the
> system drive and system
> state with overwrite.  I believe that's how it would
> work but I haven't
> been asked to do this yet.  The only server I've
> ever rebuilt is the
> Veritas Master server, on Solaris 8.
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On
> Behalf Of Piszcz,
> Justin
> Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 5:02 AM
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Best attributes for backup?
> 
> 
> 
> All,
> 
>  
> 
> How many here use the following options..?
> 
> 
> 
> [x] Collect true image restore information.
> 
>     [x] with move detection.
> 
> [x] Collect disaster recover information.


TIR is required for synthetic backups as well (5.x)
which we will be (finally) testing out on unix and windows.

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