- creating a bootable device
- ability to do bare-metal restore
- preserve system partitioning/LVM configuration
- simple and self-contained
is the killer-feature. Afaict Bacula needs a client-server setup and configuration, whereas mksysb is just a single tool.
In most production environments there is an extensive backup-system (in this case Tivoli Storage Manager), still mksysb reduces recovery time (read: down time) and is complementary to an extensive backup-system.
Bacula is too complicated if you compare it to AIX mksysb, but could be an option if your company is already using Bacula.
Not just creating the bootable device
I think the combination of:
- creating a bootable device
- ability to do bare-metal restore
- preserve system partitioning/LVM configuration
- simple and self-contained
is the killer-feature. Afaict Bacula needs a client-server setup and configuration, whereas mksysb is just a single tool.
In most production environments there is an extensive backup-system (in this case Tivoli Storage Manager), still mksysb reduces recovery time (read: down time) and is complementary to an extensive backup-system.
Bacula is too complicated if you compare it to AIX mksysb, but could be an option if your company is already using Bacula.