mm well it goes like this: 1- You are cost conscious: a- take on-line image backup of systems, even if you are talking about DR. b- it has the same sort of effect as with BMR but in different perspective. Yes BMR applies the rest of the backups itself unlike in Image backups. c- While taking image backups, You are not creating floppies or CDs or keeping CDs for entire organization. What if floppy goes bad?
d- ASR is with Windows 2003 and Windows XP only. e- It is also a BMR procedure for these OSes. f- You are right about ASR. g- Remember TSM DR is for TSM Server only. h- You keep the entire organization's machines info in DR Manager so that you can keep track of how to go about restore of those other machines. i- Once Server is up there is no problem restoring other machines in your organization j- ASR is different than image, and image is not used in ASR recoveries. 2- You are not cost conscious: a- Cristie BRM is the solution for you. b- IDR is the solution for you for windows only OSes. Please confirm this point from veritas or someone on this list. c- CBMR or IDR will apply required backups automatically for any point in time. Regards, Muhammad SaDaT Anwar Product Specialist Systems Management & Data Management Products ____________________________________ Info Tech (Pvt) Limited 108, Business Avenue, Main Shahrah-e-Faisal, Karachi, Pakistan Ph: +92-21-111-427-427 Fax: +92-21-4310569 Cell: +92-21-300-8211943 ____________________________________ Henrik Wahlstedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > To Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager" cc <[EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU> 07/21/2004 03:24 PM Subject TSM DR vs Veritas IDR Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM [EMAIL PROTECTED]> It depends what you want to do (BMR?) with your online images. I dont think of TSM backup images is an alternative to ASR or application X or whatever. I´m not sure you can use TSM backup images with ASR in disaster recovery senario. Can anyone shed some light here pls? With ASR you either choose a restore from your TSM server or a local backup set. The drawback you are talking about will exist for CBMR etc. It´s only a matter of backup frequency. //Henrik Besides !! TSM also provide online image backup of systems. If you are cost concious then go for the built in feature of TSM client for taking online image backup. This takes up the entire partitions of the system and keep as an image. When you want to restore, just take your harddisk to other system, restore image to the partition of your hard disk, activate the partition and voilla you go !!! Everything is back there !. Drawback inthe above approach would be: You will have to restore the backups that you had taken after your image backup. In CBMR or IDR, the good point is that you don't have to worry about taking your hdd to other system or apply backups to reach the latest backed up point. BUT IT SIGNIFICANTLY ADDS UP TO THE COST OF YOUR PROJECT. TSM provides things builtin, no need to purchase anything if you want open file and online image support. ------------------------------------------------------------------- The information contained in this message may be CONFIDENTIAL and is intended for the addressee only. Any unauthorised use, dissemination of the information or copying of this message is prohibited. If you are not the addressee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete this message. Thank you.