>From what I've learned with a similar call, IIRC, is that different
hardware isn't supported with any Unix variant.  The best is
differential disks.

Sorry,
Jason 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu 
> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf 
> Of Spearman, David
> Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 12:35 PM
> To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] RedHat3 Bare Metal Restore
> 
> We are trying to get BMR running for testing purposes. Our 
> goal is to use this on our RH3 linux systems. At the moment 
> we are not having a lot of success.
> 
> Our system
> W2k3 master/media
> W2k3 media
> Scaler 2000 library
> RH3 BMR server
> 
> We have followed the manual religiously and I do have a 
> support call in.
> Does anyone have a cheat sheet, tips, gothcas, whatever to 
> get this mess working? We can get all the way to setting the 
> job up in tasks, booting the target and having it connect, 
> after that it just sits around resetting all the scsi 
> channels for a couple of hours before failing. It did give a 
> hint to use bmr scsiLoadOrder=XXXX:XXXX but that didn't help 
> either. To me it appears to be looking for sda, sdb, etc, but 
> I was under the impression it was supposed to do all that for 
> you if you set the job up according to the bmr restore to 
> different hardware bit. We also tried going to the original 
> disks and it did succesfully restore
> 1456 bytes (one ethernet packet). The manual is at best 
> convoluted and I think the support guy is on vacation.
> 
> 
> David Spearman
> County of Henrico, Va.
> 
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