Hi Simon,
We run a Samba share on the disk storage on one of our Red Hat
Netbackup media servers, our BESR jobs are configured to write to this location.
We then backup the disk to tape.
One thing I didn’t mention earlier is that BESR only runs on
Windows servers, BMR on the other hand can be configured for Windows, linux and
Solaris servers.
Regards,
Brendan
Clover
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University of South Australia
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From: WEAVER, Simon (external)
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Sent: Tuesday, 12 May 2009 3:28 PM
To: Brendan Clover; Simon Weaver
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Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] BackupExec Sys Recovery 8.5 or NetBackup 6.x
Cheers Brendon for this info!
Its nice to see some differences, but if BESR is going to be used
for StandAlone Networks, then maybe it could find a place in a NetBackup environment.
Will do some testing :-)
Have you any documentation or any other advice to offer in terms of
BESR? I assume you have NetBackup ?
Simon
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On Behalf Of Brendan Clover
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 1:51 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
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
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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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