Paul and others;

I have been following this discussion on BMR with avid interest, because
our organization is in the process of evaluating what is avaiable and best
for us to use to accomplish the situation of making a backup of the system
for recovery purposes, with rapid recovery capabilities.

BMR as well as Ghosting products have been looked at, but we in Disaster
Recovery have looked at another products that seems to take care of the
rebuild of the Hardware on our servers. The product rebuilds our AIX/SUN/
and Windows NT servers.

Ghosting is great for imaging systems.  However, not all systems are built
from an identical image.  Ghosting also leaves an exposure to hardware
differences at the recovery site.

Bare Metal Restore has the same benefits as ghosting with the addition of
Unix support, however the issues remain the same with respect to the DR
site.  Hardware differences can still create problems at the point of
recovery, and recovery cannot begin till the data tapes arrive at the DR
site.

The product that we are looking into is Indigo Stones/IBM Businnes Recovery
Srevices -  Enterprise Rapid Recovery Methodology - ERRM.  Using this
approach allows us to rebuild our servers on a computer, with different
hardware in a recovery center in a relatively short period of time

Indigo Stone ERRM is designed to take these above issues out of the
equation, the machine profile is already stored at the recovery site, we
can recover the profile as soon as the hardware is assembled.  ERRM
captures the user/application environment and then restores it on a
pre-built system.  The hardware differences are removed from consideration
because ERRM recovers the functionality to the hardware available.  And it
also means that we can begin recovery as soon as we arrive at the DR site
with our data tapes.

I would be interested in if anyone else has used or even looked into this
product or is using "like" products to recover their distributed servers.


Tony Sinclair
Lead DR Analyst
Regence Blue Shield






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I may try to present it at Share in Dallas and give any attending person
the
stuff.  I will not release it before then.

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


-----Original Message-----
From: KEN HORACEK [mailto:KHORACEK AT INCSYSTEM DOT COM]
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 6:12 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: BareMetalRestore Media Management in TSM


Paul,
I know that you have put many hours into this monumental task.  Are you
willing to share the fruits of you labor with the community.

Ken
khoracek AT incsystem DOT com


>>> seay_pd AT NAPTHEON DOT COM 09/06/2002 2:55:54 PM >>>
This is the requirement that TSM needs to face up to.  I have written a set
of perl/ksh scripts that do it for AIX mksysb and uses TSM to manage the
tapes.  I have not finished testing it yet.  I am sure what I have done
could be ported to other platforms.

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


-----Original Message-----
From: Robin Sharpe [mailto:Robin_Sharpe AT BERLEX DOT COM]
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 1:58 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: BareMetalRestore


I'd be happy if TSM provided a means of managing the media containing my HP
Ignite-UX images...  currently, that has to be done manually.

Robin Sharpe
Berlex Labs