Well the script written in-house at Disney was fully automated. Backed up using Legato to tape. It stores and reads the logs to play back for a restore.

Just let the script know if you're backing up or restoring and which type or volume and let it rip.

The hosts can be backed up and restored live, the entire system volume boots from a Linux floppy and launches Legato and grabs the tape and does a full system restore.

There were guys a couple years ago trying to sell this type of script for $5,000 so we took a couple weeks reading and testing till we got it working right.

Sounds like that one you linked to is not fully working right.


I'm now in a much smaller shop and no VMware