(Except the free raffles when he speaks at vendor-sponsored seminars, of course... ;^>)
-- gabriel rosenkoetter Radian Group Inc, Unix/Linux/VMware Sysadmin / Backup & Recovery [EMAIL PROTECTED], 215 231 1556 _____ From: Curtis Preston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 3:42 PM To: Kevin Whittaker; Rosenkoetter, Gabriel; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Is BMR worth it / How long does it really save you? Sorry. ;) FWIW, none of the special discount programs I've seen have been anything greater than what Amazon does. --- W. Curtis Preston Backup Blog @ www.backupcentral.com VP Data Protection, GlassHouse Technologies _____ From: Kevin Whittaker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 12:39 PM To: Curtis Preston; Rosenkoetter, Gabriel; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Is BMR worth it / How long does it really save you? A shameless plug for your book, but no special discount code for us fellow backupcentral people? ;-) _____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curtis Preston Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 2:52 PM To: Rosenkoetter, Gabriel; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Is BMR worth it / How long does it really save you? Gabe said: >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. HP-UX system recovery, AIX mksysb, & Solaris Flasharchive are all well-documented systems that work very well for recovering the OS to its current state. (Ahem, all covered very nicely in my book, BTW. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596102461/backupcentral0d ) The advantage to BMR is not having to do a separate backup for that purpose, and being much more automated. My experience has been that, even though those methods work very well, the fact that you have to do a separate backup for them to work makes them usually out of date very quickly. With BMR, your system recovery info gets updated every time you do a backup. That's as good as it's going to get. --- W. Curtis Preston Backup Blog @ www.backupcentral.com VP Data Protection, GlassHouse Technologies
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