Re: [Veritas-bu] BackupExec Sys Recovery 8.5 or NetBackup 6.x

Hi Simon

BESR and BMR work quite differently. BESR creates a complete image of the hard drive which can be restored via the BESR recovery disk and the server is usable again. BMR stores server specific information (e.g. registry) on tape but requires another server with the OS files on it. A BMR restore is done from the Netbackup Console, once initiated it gathers the required information from tape, combines with the OS data stored on the recovery server and pushes it to the server being restored.

BESR is much easier to set up and can be managed through a central management console (although this is a separate purchase) but has its quirks and the service occasionally hangs on the client (although this seems to be greatly reduced with 8.5) meaning that backups aren’t run. I haven’t tested BMR yet, it is one of those when I get time projects, but have been advised by Symantec that it is more reliable than BESR.

The other thing with BESR is backups can take a while and consequently I would only recommend it for the system partition/drive. For example our Windows 2008 servers have a 30Gb System drive and are using around 15Gb of that, the backup can take 20 – 30 minutes.

Regards,

Brendan Clover

Information Technologist

Systems Infrastructure
University of South Australia
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Fax: +61 8 830 25800

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From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts
Sent: Tuesday, 12 May 2009 6:28 AM
To: Simon Weaver
Cc: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] BackupExec Sys Recovery 8.5 or NetBackup 6.x

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Simon Weaver <Simon.Weaver AT iscl DOT net> wrote:

So on the basis it was included with 6.5, it should do the same or in fact similar job to BE System Recovery ?

Not had chance to try or even see this in action.

I have never used BE System Recovery nor have I actually gotten around to setting up BMR yet so I don't know how they compare.

You say it needs to be installed seperately.... I assume you mean license key?

License key plus mucho configuration.

From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org]
Sent: 11 May 2009 21:43
To: Simon Weaver
Cc: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] BackupExec Sys Recovery 8.5 or NetBackup 6.x

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Simon Weaver <Simon.Weaver AT iscl DOT net> wrote:

As I understand it, the "BMR" feature is part of the 6.x suite. So if they upgrade from 5.1 to 6.x they are going to get the features of 6.x plus BMR?

The license was included starting with 6.5. It still needs to be installed separately.

.../Ed

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