Diff between BMR & Vmware level backup in Netbackup 7.1

[PhaniKumar82]

Team 

Can anybody explain me about difference between BMR Backup & Vmware level backup in netbackup because we are going to implement any one of the above two options so before implementing we want to know which is good option and what are the advantages & Disadvantages for above two options 

Any suggestions can be appriciated :) :)

Regards,

Phani Kumar

[Mark_Solutions]

If you are using vCenter and doing vSphere backups then that is by far the best way to protect your clients.

However, if you still have physical servers you would want to protect those using BMR.

The VMWare restore is very straight forward and wizard guided and works from your BAR GUI really smootly regardless of the O/S Protected.

BMR has a lot more to it, especially in terms of alternate hardware restores and different O/S's as they each need their own BMR Boot Server (So you would need a Windows, Linux, Solaris etc. boot server if you backup those systems) Restore also needs more manual intervention on the client itself (Boot CD, PXE Boot, Preparing a client to restore etc. etc.

Both are excellent and do a good job but my advice would be to backup and VM's via vSphere backups and all Physical Servers using the BMR option

Hope this helps

[mandar_khanolka]

Another points to be added:

In case of BMR backup, you need NetBackup client installed on client being backed-up (GUEST virtual machine or physical machine). Where using VM policy you can take offhost backups (no need to have NB client installed on your virtual machines).

Using BMR you can restore backed-up virtual machine onto a physical machine or any other type of virtual machine. But as per Mark_Solutions, it needs other setup like BMR Boot server, SRT etc.

If image restore to different types of hw or virtual machine is not needed then vm level backup is best to protect your virtual environment.

Thanks.

-Mandar

[PhaniKumar82]

VSphere backup do we need to buy the license from Symantec ?

BMR lecense is  free from 7 .X onwards ....

1) Using BMR we can do restore from Phsyical to Vm and both ways and we have only Windows mechines there is no unix clients in our env so in this case which one is good ?

2) in case of BMR do we need any seperate license for taking BMR backup from VM  and restoring on another VM 

Regards,

Phani Kumar

[PhaniKumar82]

Please share any vedios for configuring Vsphere backup and restoring process ?

Regards,

Phani Kumar

[Mark_Solutions]

Not sure exactly why you have marked your own question as a solution but here you go ...

1. BMR is now free but you still need to buy a client license for every client you back up in the tradtional manner. For vSphere backups you buy a single Enterprise Client license per ESX Server, no matter how many hosts you back up on it.

2. Videos : http://www.symantec.com/tv/community/details.jsp?vid=702249172001

Hope this helps - if your questions have been answered it would be nice if you marked the thread that helped you to assist people search for similar information in the future

[PhaniKumar82]

Am really sorry ...am new to this forum and mistakenly marked as solution 

Thanks for your help 

[Mark_Solutions]

No problem - when you are happy that your question has been answered please mark the post that helped the most to close the thread and assist others searching for a similar issue in the future

Glad to have been of help