IDR vs BMR vs Livestate

[Dennis_Thornt1]

Hi,
What are the differences between these products?
Thanks

[Yasuhisa_Ishika · Accepted solution]

IDR and BMR is option products of NetBackup.
Most remarkable difference between NetBackup and Livestate Recovery(now, Backup Exec System Recovery) is their architecture.

NetBackup is file-based backup softoware, and its main target are data files.
You can backs up system disks with NetBackup, but many steps are needed to restore.
It becomes a bit easier with IDR or BMR, but Livestate Recovery is more suitable to system protection.
IDR is purchased by NetBackup 5.x. IDR is replaced by BMR on NetBackup 6.

Livestate Recovery offers disk-based system protection. Livestate Recovery backs up whole disk or volume images - not individual files. So it is unlikely to use Livestate Recovery with data volumes.Message was edited by:
Yasuhisa Itoh

[Sankar_ganesh]

what is BMR

[Yasuhisa_Ishika]

BMR is Bare Metal Restore which enable you to backup system configuration and restore to desimilar systems.

[Sankar_ganesh]

Itoh Thank you for info.

This is the first time i am hearing about this.

Is that Veritas product. Can you send some likes to find the details about BMR

[Yasuhisa_Ishika]

Yes, that's VERITAS product. You can get docs from support.veritas.com.

http://support.veritas.com/docs/279296
http://support.veritas.com/docs/281510

And, here is overview.

http://eval.veritas.com/mktginfo/products/White_Papers/Data_Protection/nbu_6_tech_overview_wp_060105.pdf