We played around with demos of both products, and had a much worse experience with ARMex. We found that ARMex would only work if the server was recovered to the extent that Exchange services could be started. With Powercontrols, we just restored the .edb.
Unfortunately, Ontrack refuses to offer intellectual property indemnification (though I hear that this is only true for their Enterprise (251+ mailboxes/server) edition). So if any third party claims that Powercontrols infringes upon their intellectual property, you the customer could be liable for damages. Just about all vendors we ever deal with agree to eat any liability of this kind, but Ontrack's lead counsel just said fuhgeddaboutit. Since Ontrack and Powercontrols seem to be the only players in this market, we're SOL. Unless anyone knows of another option. -----Original Message----- From: Woodruff, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 2:14 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Aelita Recovery Manager (ARM) for Exchange... Yeah we have seen this as well. Not that many times though. They also told us it would be fixed in the next version. It has definitely paid for itself in the data we have recovered. Once the bug is fixed, it will be a very solid/useful product. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bendall, Paul Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 1:56 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Aelita Recovery Manager (ARM) for Exchange... Michael, How useful do you find Power Controls? We purchased it and have used it on a few occasions with about a 50:50 success rate. On the times that it fails it said that the edb is unreadable. Ontrack says this can occur when a lot of transaction logs haven't been committed to the database. Apparently version 2, due out in September I think, will reduce this problem. Regards, Paul -----Original Message----- From: Woodruff, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 August 2003 18:40 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Aelita Recovery Manager (ARM) for Exchange... Exact same thing as Power Controls, which is what we use. Nice products for DR. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Blunt, James H (Jim) Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 1:02 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Aelita Recovery Manager (ARM) for Exchange... Not sure how many of you have seen this...most I would imagine: http://www.aelita.com/products/ARMEx.htm For all of you folks that *insist* on doing BLB's, I would think this product would make you a hero, if it works as advertised. Regardless of your policy concerning BLB's, has anyone tested this product? If so, does it function as advertised? Since I don't have a test lab available, I would be interested in hearing some opinions. TIA, Jim _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
