Not backup oriented at all, let alone Netbackup, so I'll be brief -
what about virtual machines? Not appropriate for machines that do
heavy data processing probably, but otherwise very useful, especially
for consolidating more lightly used machines onto one or a few bits
of hardware, potentially with automatic failover as well.
At 9:02 am +0100 12/6/06, WEAVER, Simon wrote:
>Good Morning
>Well so far, so good - got a more stable NBU system - one SAN Media
>failed its backup, but not bothered about that and its running fine
>now!
>
>I wanted to try and cover some grounds with any NBU win2k3/NT/2000
>environments, about how your NetBackup environment is configured and
>what failover you have in place or DR plans.
>
>I have been looking at BMR for NBU6, but I run 5.1 MP2 which has
>been extremely stable for us (if you exclude the manual intervention
>of someone destroying it!!!), and have not been fully convinced
>about going to 6 yet.
>
>BMR works and integrates with 6, but from a DR point, I am not sure
>if this is the right method to go down.
>
>Looking at Symantec Live State recovery, which does not integrated
>with NBU, but does seem to do the job (although expensive). Plus, it
>doesnt rely on another system.
>
>Does anyone have some thoughts on DR planning, or products they use?
>I guess my main focus is to be able to recover a system OS as
>quickly as possible. Data can then be recovered from tape.
>
>I have also been told I cannot get any IDR licenses for 5.1 anymore,
>which seems a bit odd to me !
>
>Thanks
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