This appears to make GRO pretty useless for anything but tiny tiny SharePoint setups that do not use separate servers.
I have also not seen anything about whether GRO can back up and recover the SharePoint configuration databases in addition to the content database.
I have to take my SharePoint backup business elsewhere because Symantec did not create a GRO that meets the minimum expectations: 1) work seamlessly and appropriately in a SharePoint server farm environment; 2) apparently does not back up and recover the SharePoint configuration databases as well as the content databases, nothing is stated about the configuration databases in the PR/marketing literature.
Otherwise BESR is a good product.
Thank you, Tom