Hello Mark,

as a look onto the VERITAS web site or a talk with some of their sales reps
reveals BMR for TSM won't be enhanced furthermore. The new (and totally
revamped AFAIK) version 4 is only available for NetBackup! You can still
buy BMR for TSM from Tivoli and support is available yet too, but who wants
to ride a dead horse?

I like the concept how BMR works but in my opinion the version 3.2.x isn't
worth its money. IBM and my company tried to implement it for one of our
great customers and it failed in almost every category! It crashed, it
didn't detect all the installed hardware and it wasn't able to restore all
necessary files (Windows NT/2000 clients, IBM and Compaq hardware, no
changes between backup and restore)! So we finally gave up. And that were
the same experiences that another of our customers had made more than a
year ago (in summer 2001)!

If I can't rely on a product for disaster recovery purposes why should I
spend any money for it?

IBM/Tivoli: Please, hurry to develop your own DR solution for TSM!! But one
that works!!!

Just my $0.02.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Met vriendelijke groeten,
With best regards,
Bien amicalement,

CU/2,
                Dirk Billerbeck


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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf Of
Joshua Bassi
> I had a customer here in the Bay Area call VERITAS to have a
> presentation on BMR.  The response from VERITAS was that the only way
> this customer could use BMR is if they moved off TSM and used NetBackup
> exclusively.
>
> Has anyone else experienced this?  I thought VERITAS was going to push
> this product's integration with TSM, not use the purchase of The Kernel
> Group to pouch TSM accounts!

Interesting, since you can still buy BMR through Tivoli.

We've all been over the BMR subject on this list the last six months. It's
basically a fine package--if you're restoring to the same hardware. If
you're not, it isn't.

--
Mark Stapleton (stapleton AT berbee DOT com)
Certified TSM consultant
Certified AIX system engineer
MCSE