No, not kidding. I agree, it is difficult to tell most of the time in email.
I've been using Backup Exec for years. Once Symantec bought out Veritas, things have gone decidedly south with the product. A crying shame. Same thing happened when they acquired Powerquest's product line of disc utilities. But I digress. Yes, nothing short of imaging the disc will get really close (Exchange and SQL still have to be massaged) to a fast restore. Though I hear LiveState allows for a pretty painless recovery. I suspect it automates the things we would do manually. Here's looking forward to swapping more war stories down the road! Erich On Jan 17, 2007, at 7:36 PM, James Harper wrote: >>> It should do. Even Backup Exec will not restore the exchange and SQL >>> databases (except I think the actual backup exec database itself) as >>> part of the disaster recovery restore. You have to restore the disk >>> volumes and system state and then boot up and restore the databases. >> >> Ah yes, and one more reason to end the madness with Backup Exec > and >> move completely over to Bacula. >> > > I use Backup Exec on a daily basis, and have found very few problems > with it, especially in the event of a disaster. You can't do a > 'proper' > restore of a database without having Exchange/SQL actually running, > and > you won't get it running in a BartPE or Backup Exec IDR environment. > Booting the operating system to complete the restore is going to be a > given no matter what solution you are using, unless you are > prepared to > restore a database that you backed up using VSS, and that will set you > back to the point at which the VSS backup was done (hours or days > ago), > not the time the last log shipment was done (hopefully minutes ago). > > Or maybe you were only kidding... email always makes it hard to > tell :) > > James > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
