Cristie TBMR

TBMR: IBM Storage Protect Recovery

Cristie TBMR System Recovery for IBM protects your critical servers by recovering them directly from your IBM Storage Protect backups.

Overview

Cristie System Recovery for IBM Storage Protect simplifies the automated recovery of multiple systems.

TBMR System Recovery for IBM Storage Protect provides powerful features to remove complexity and manual intervention from your recovery workflow. Continuous recovery assurance can be enabled to ensure your disaster recovery plan will work when you need it most.

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Features

System Recovery key features & benefits for IBM Storage Protect users

With our unique dissimilar environment technology, you can recover to any physical, virtual or cloud target with automatic boot critical driver insertion. TBMR extends Storage Protect backups so that operating systems, applications, user configurations and data can be recovered to any point in time provided by Storage Protect.

Recover entire workloads including OS configuration, applications, data and user information. With automation you can recover multiple systems from a single interface. TBMR can recover systems from Windows, Linux, VMware, Hyper-V and cloud platforms such as Azure, OCI and Amazon EC2.

Adding TBMR to your Storage Protect environment allows recovery of operating systems, applications, user configuration and data to any point in time available in your IBM backup software. With our Continuous Recovery Assurance you can automatically test the recoverability of every backup to verify that your recovery procedures will work when you need them most, and all without having to rely on manual intervention.

TBMR is re-sold globally by IBM and its channel partners as a recommended recovery solution and is available for both perpetual and subscription-based licensing.

TBMR provides DR automation and orchestration capabilities plus the ability to recover systems within a Clean Room environment to validate recovery processes and RTO objectives. 

System DR process audits are a core component of many industry compliance directives. Our DR orchestration tools enable the automation of TBMR recovery simulation reports to simplify your regulatory compliance procedures.

How TBMR works

Learn more about System Recovery for IBM.

TBMR is powerful, easy-to-use software that integrates with IBM Storage Protect. It is designed to provide fast, automatic machine recovery to an identical state following any outage scenario or cyberattack.

TBMR uses IBM Storage Protect backups for disaster recovery with the ability to recovery multiple systems simultaneously. Systems are recovered directly from the IBM Storage Protect server without the need to perform a separate backup.

System recovery simulations can also be scheduled with detailed reporting highlighting any problems encountered, plus an audit track of successful results. With TMBR as an extension to your IBM Storage Protect environment you can be sure that your systems can be recovery successfully when they are needed most.

TBMR System Recovery for IBM - Workflow Sequence

Cristie Software TBMR | System Recovery for IBM Storage Protect
VM, Cloud or Physical Server

Prepare Server

Install TBMR Agent
Install TSM Agent
Create/Copy Binary

Protect Server

Create Protection Policy & Group

Download the Recovery ISO

Download the recovery ISO from Cristie

Boot Recovery ISO

Connect to IBM Platform

select desired snapshot

Complete Recovery

TBMR Recovery Environment

TBMR requires one license per system it protects and includes 12 month free support & maintenance. Find out more about our pricing here

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