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Having just dealt with the licensing for this, BMR is included, as of
6.5, as part of the *Enterprise* server license. (It's completely unclear to me
whether you can still buy a non-enterprise license, but an upgrade of our 5.1MP5
systems, which didn't have the BMR feature enabled, happily used the old keys
but didn't enable BMR, despite the meatspace permission to use it; you have to
go dance with licensing.symantec.com to get an updated key.)
I also agree with
Ed, Curtis, Jon, and anybody else who said the same thing that hasn't made it to
me in a digest yet. Note that you may not save wall-clock time if you're fast
and reliable about laying down the OS, configuration, and NBU client, but
you definitely do save man hours because you don't have to take all the interim
steps manually.
That said, I haven't
seen any reason to switch from an existing, documented, and
internally-understood HP-UX systems recovery that relies on the (HP)
vendor-supplied sys_recover bits, but BMR's definitely a win for OSes with less
mature ways to do this (Windows, Linux) and probably for places where you aren't
already doing something that works.
--
gabriel rosenkoetter
Radian Group
Inc, Unix/Linux/VMware Sysadmin / Backup &
Recovery
gabriel.rosenkoetter AT radian DOT biz, 215 231 1556
I couldn’t agree with
Ed more. In addition, I BELIEVE under the new pricing model, BMR is
included in the base product.
From:
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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 4:47
PM
To: Hadrian
Baron
Cc:
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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Is BMR worth it /
How long does it really save you?
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Hadrian Baron <Hadrian.Baron AT vegas DOT com>
wrote:
Does BMR really speed up recovery significantly?
Reading through the documentation it seems that between the multiple
reboots, reinstalling windows, restoring the data files, reformat time, it
seems like it doesn't save much time over a typical restore (manually reformat
the system, load nic drivers + Netbackup, and kick off
restore).
Disclaimer: I've seen the demos
but we don't have it running yet. I know the theory though.
I've
seen a full system restore from bare metal in 20 minutes. Our Windows
admins take a day or 2 to rebuild a server...and even then, they don't always
get it right.
One of the key things to consider, though, is how important
it is to get the server back to the exact same configuration it was before it
died. If it's important, and it probably should be, BMR is far more
critical than a simple re-install. Don't forget that not only do you have
to re-install Windows, you'd have to apply all of the identical server paks you
had on the system to begin within, all of the exact same versions and patches to
the applications, identical drivers, identical registry settings, local user
configurations, share configurations, and only then can you worry about the
application data. If you try the rebuild approach, the odds are almost
100% that what you end up with will not be the same as what you started
with. One missed setting and your application could crash, fail, or
corrupt data. You may not even partition the drives the same as what you
had.
.../Ed
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Ed Wilts,
Mounds View, MN, USA
mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org
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