>From a fundamental viewpoint, what is the difference between manually copying VMs from the server to the backup system and using a commercial product, being SRM or third-party?
What might we be missing manual vs third-party (or SRM) product? I am not looking at/for assumptions of how the computing environment is set up - simply what do we: - vital elements gained from an add-on product - vital element we might lose from manual preservation If we manually preserved, and lost the VM or the server, and rebuilt with original media, could we simply copy the manually preserved copies back over and be operational again, or are the add-on options the only way to make this happen? Thanks. Scott _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss