>>I can do a bare metal restore of any of our servers >>with tape in around an hour, don't know why it would take days? > > > It may take days to get a functional bare-metal machine ready. > Even overnight Fedex is still a ~24 hour down time. > Ok, I guess I wasn't thinking that everybody doesn't stock spare parts for their severs. In that case at a hardware level, it would take time to get the parts.