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

>>BMR on the other hand can be configured for Windows, linux and Solaris servers

BMR Supports HP-UX & AIX clients as well.


Brendan Clover wrote:
> 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.Â  We 
> then backup the disk to tape. 
> 
> One thing I didnâ??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 
> Information Technologist 
> Systems Infrastructure
> University of South Australia
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> From: WEAVER, Simon (external) [mailto:simon.weaver < at > astrium.eads.net] 
> Sent: Tuesday, 12 May 2009 3:28 PM
> To: Brendan Clover; Simon Weaver
> Cc: VERITAS-BU < at > mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> 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 
> 
> 
> From: veritas-bu-bounces < at > mailman.eng.auburn.edu 
> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces < at > mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of 
> Brendan Clover
> Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 1:51 AM
> To: Simon Weaver
> Cc: VERITAS-BU < at > mailman.eng.auburn.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 arenâ??t run. I havenâ??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 â?? 30 minutes.  
> 
> Regards, 
> 
> Brendan Clover 
> Information Technologist 
> Systems Infrastructure
> University of South Australia
> Phone: +61 8 830 23641  
> Fax: +61 8 830 25800 
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> From: veritas-bu-bounces < at > mailman.eng.auburn.edu 
> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces < at > mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Ed 
> Wilts
> Sent: Tuesday, 12 May 2009 6:28 AM
> To: Simon Weaver
> Cc: VERITAS-BU < at > mailman.eng.auburn.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.net 
> (Simon.Weaver < at > iscl.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.org (ewilts < at > ewilts.org)] 
> > Sent: 11 May 2009 21:43
> > To: Simon Weaver
> > Cc: VERITAS-BU < at > mailman.eng.auburn.edu (VERITAS-BU < at > 
> > mailman.eng.auburn.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.net 
> > (Simon.Weaver < at > iscl.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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