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[Veritas-bu] Fwd: Netbackup BMR Thoughts

2009-05-25 17:32:16
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Fwd: Netbackup BMR Thoughts
From: Dean <dean.deano AT gmail DOT com>
To: "veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu" <veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 07:28:42 +1000
I tried a very short Proof Of Concept trial of BMR. The main points I came out of it with are :

- It's quite complicated, with all the SRTs and boot servers and such. But I guess there's no way around that.
- It doesn't support restore to dissimilar hardware for Linux. For this reason, it was rejected by the POC sponsors, and they decided to go with Platespin, even though BMR is effectively free with NBU 6.5, and Platespin is .... not free.

Cheers,
Dean

2009/5/24 Jorge Fábregas <jorge.fabregas AT gmail DOT com>

Hello everyone,

I'm considering implementing BMR for the first time as I just found it's free!
(shame on me).   I just read the Whitepaper on it and plan to read the Admin
Guide shortly...bur first I wanted to know your experiences on it.

I thought that BMR was a block-level (image-based) type of backup..but reading
the whitepaper it seems that is mainly an automated way to restore your
system: it will partition your disk, format (create filesystem), copy OS
files and then restore your data (everything based on previsouly gathered
info of course).

My question for you is:   Is it that wonderful as it appears to be? If you use
BMR...do you also still use any image-based backup (like Ghost or
Clonezilla)?

Thanks in advance!

All the best,
Jorge
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