I'm going to jump in here with both feet, because I keep seeing the 'Bare Metal Restore' stuff come up. I may be suffering from too narrow a viewpoint, but from where I sit, BMR during a disaster recovery must work EXACTLY like BMR back home. And the implication is that I have NO running systems at start. (I can get away with this, because we've done exactly ONE restore that would qualify as 'bare metal' here at NIBCO in the past 6 years. If I go back any further, we need to talk about BMR for MVS/ESA and GCOS-3).
So, to even consider the process, I need full BMR of the BMR server (if it's a seperate box) AND the TSM server. Or, to put it slightly differently, I've a box of LTO tape and A (ONE) bootable install media for ONE system. The requirement is to get everything up from there. The Veritas website seems to be broken -- not getting any information about BMR; is AIX a supported platform for the BMR server? Sorry -- I'll go crawl back under my rock :-) Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc > -----Original Message----- > From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 1:08 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: BareMetalRestore > > > There has been a lot of discussion on bare metal restore with > TSM and other > products. It seems we're all held hostage to purchase > expensive products > that have this capability. Unfortunately in times like this > we've all had > our budgets cut, at least I have, and would like our software vendors, > IBM/TIVOLI in this case, to make their products more robust. > After all we do > send them maintenance money for software updates and expect > the product to > get better. > > I'm just wondering how serious IBM is about getting TSM to > "WORK" with the > various OS software vendors, i.e. Microsoft, HP, Compaq, Sun > and the like, > to find out what it takes to get it's product to do bare > metal restores. If > TKG could make it work why can't IBM? Or don't these guys talk to each > other? > > My little rant for the day!!!!! > Geoff Gill > TSM Administrator > NT Systems Support Engineer > SAIC > E-Mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Phone: (858) 826-4062 > Pager: (877) 905-7154 >
