Hi Johannes,

I was hoping some users would jump in on this but here's a little info 
from my perspective.  EMC Engineering is currently using HomeBase to 
protect roughly 400 servers (and growing).  The HomeBase client software 
is integrated with NetWorker starting with 7.4 SP3.  If you bring in a 
HomeBase server, it does profiling and protection for server identity type 
info.  NetWorker (and Avamar too) provides protection for the user and 
application data. You can set the HomeBase profile to be generated as a 
part of a NetWorker backup job schedule.  The profiles HomeBase creates 
and stores are pretty small in size and this is seen as an advantage over 
image-based BMR products as images tend to get quite large and it can be 
prohibitive to create them daily.  HomeBase can also provide dissimilar 
hardware bare-metal recovery which is important because if a total server 
replacement is necessary, usually the new box is a bit different (bigger, 
stronger, faster).  

It would be interesting to hear about your BMR-type requirements. How many 
servers would you look to protect this way?  What version of NetWorker are 
you using? 

-Eric
EMC NetWorker PMM.

On Thu, 3 Jun 2010 07:15:25 -0400, JKK <johannes.karlsson AT SKYRR DOT IS> 
wrote:

>Hi.
>
>Is someone here using the EMC product Homebase with NetWorker?
>
>Just wandering if anyone can share their experience with the product?
>
>Is it worth the $ ?
>
>Best regards,
>Johannes
>

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