Additionally to this one, I prefer the BMR Option.
Imagine the effort to install a new machine (OS, patch level etc) in order to 
perform a full restore.

Using BMR, you need a server to host the boot cds, PXE to be faster and one 
boot image of every OS and that's it.

You do not need full OS, but only boot disks.

Nikos Apostolou
Systems & Security Engineer

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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Dennis 
Peacock
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Windows Backups....

Well I can't do BMR setup every time I hope to recover a Windows box. We have 
HUNDREDS of backup clients spanning Unix, Linux, and Windows. Maybe hundreds is 
a bit of an understatement because I do know of at least 2,000 backup clients 
in our world here.

To setup an infrastructure to BMR any of the Windows boxes would probably cost 
us into the millions of dollars. Just not an option with as large of a locale 
as we are.

I will ask the Windows engineers to see what they prefer we do. Last time we 
did a DR with them, they backed up the System State to a file on the server and 
we backed that up via Netbackup as part of the backup work before the DR. 
(Disaster Recovery).

Thanks for your response. I appreciate it.

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