CBMR

CBMR (Cristie Bare Machine Recovery) is powerful, easy to use software that backs up the Operating System, network and hard disk configuration of critical servers. This enables rapid recovery to an identical state following damage to or failure of the physical hardware or a corruption of the Operating System. This version of CBMR has been fully tested to run on most major Linux distributions (e.g Red Hat and SuSE) - kernel version 2.2 and above.

Most organizations now have well-developed backup strategies to protect their data using backup or replication to tape and secondary disk. However, disaster recovery can be complex and time consuming requiring machines to be rebuilt from scratch and backup installation software to be installed before any data recovery can commence. To recover a whole data centre manually could take weeks and this can put enormous strain on an organization's resources.

With CBMR all that is required for recovery is a standard CBMR boot CD and an IP connection to the network containing the CBMR backups. Multiple servers can be recovered simultaneously and the recovery process normally only takes a few minutes for each machine. The time taken to recover a whole data centre can therefore be reduced dramatically, to just a few hours.

CBMR for Linux offers:

• Disaster Recovery (DR) configuration may be saved to floppy disk, memory stick or network share (NFS or SMB)
• Logical Volume Manager support (versions 1 and 2)
• Command line, curses-based and X-Windows based user interfaces
• Integration with IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
• Integration with Cristie Storage Manager
• Support for IDE, SCSI, SATA, Fibre or hardware RAID disks of similar or different sizes
• Tape Libraries with LSM bar code support
• Supports SAN and fibre channel installations
• During DR process boot either from supplied CD or network using PXE
• Full interoperability with Cristie UBAX for Linux - means DR backups can be restored from the multitude of devices supported by UBax

CBMR operates either as a standalone backup and recovery application or in conjunction with other backup applications, including ITSM. CBMR is "Ready for IBM Tivoli" software and is re-sold by IBM globally. CBMR is chosen by Netbackup and Legato users for its ease of use, speed or recovery and documented dissimilar hardware functionality.