We have had our own "home grown" process for some time and just have not
had the time to do a complete review of the benefits of DRM - our
process works for us, but, as our configuration grows, I think a review
of what DRM has to offer will be a good idea (we plan to take a look at
it later this year).
Maybe there are others on this list that have DRM who could supply some
answers to it's benefits over "home grown" procedures such as ours.
As for export/import, these commands won't get you what you need to
restore a server to a point in time (they are designed for migrating
data to another server)  - you need a db backup as well as copies of
your storage pools and the other components (volhist/devconfig/dsmopt)
mentioned in the Bare-Metal procedures.  (For others listening in,
please correct me if I'm wrong!!!).

        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Donald W. Daniels/FFIC
[SMTP:Donald_W._Daniels/FFIC AT FFIC DOT COM]
        Sent:   Monday, July 06, 1998 12:29 PM
        To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
        Subject:        Re: Bare-metal recovery of ADSM Server (WinNT
version 3)??

        Scott, thanks much for your procedure.  Are you considering
using DRM?  We
        haven't purchased it yet as we couldn't justify for our single
ADSM server. In
        reading the doc, it isn't clear to me what benefits it offers.
I also ran
        across the export/import facilty and wondered if it could be
utilized for
        disaster recovery.

        Don
        ddaniels AT ffic DOT com