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Re: BareMetalRestore

2002-09-05 21:30:57
Subject: Re: BareMetalRestore
From: mephi (劉禹賢) <mephi AT IBN.COM DOT TW>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 11:15:32 +0800
There is a problem: all other software, like Brightstor and Netbackup
support this function.
Since the windows users are getting more, we cannot ignore the requests
from them.
I lose about 4 case which Brightstor and Netbackup take these case
because of the lack of this function.
TSM is a very good solution, but is still not a complet solution.
People do not think about the disaster and disaster recovery, they just
think of convinient, especially they spend lots of money to build a
solution.

Mephi Liu

-----Original Message-----
From: Seay, Paul [mailto:seay_pd AT NAPTHEON DOT COM]
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 5:07 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: BareMetalRestore


IBM is the only company that provides this capability for its operating
systems.  Standalone restore on the mainframe, mksysb on AIX.  These are
included free with the OS.  This is a OS vendor issue.  They simply do
not
recognize the benefits of the capability and are not focused on SAR
because
they do not see it as a problem.

The place that Tivoli needs to step in is make things like mksysb
integrated
as a special backup capability that and manage the associated media and
provide a boot strap wrapper to invoke the native system's capability if
the
are ever created.

Paul D. Seay, Jr.
Technical Specialist
Naptheon Inc.
757-688-8180


-----Original Message-----
From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:GEOFFREY.L.GILL AT SAIC DOT COM]
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 2:08 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: BareMetalRestore


There has been a lot of discussion on bare metal restore with TSM and
other
products. It seems we're all held hostage to purchase expensive products
that have this capability. Unfortunately in times like this we've all
had
our budgets cut, at least I have, and would like our software vendors,
IBM/TIVOLI in this case, to make their products more robust. After all
we do
send them maintenance money for software updates and expect the product
to
get better.

I'm just wondering how serious IBM is about getting TSM to "WORK" with
the
various OS software vendors, i.e. Microsoft, HP, Compaq, Sun and the
like,
to find out what it takes to get it's product to do bare metal restores.
If
TKG could make it work why can't IBM? Or don't these guys talk to each
other?

My little rant for the day!!!!!
Geoff Gill
TSM Administrator
NT Systems Support Engineer
SAIC
E-Mail:    <mailto:gillg AT saic DOT com> gillg AT saic DOT com
Phone:  (858) 826-4062
Pager:   (877) 905-7154

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