I investigated the bare metal restore for NT using Cheyenne's ArcServe product
back in March.  I was told that it only handles the bare metal restore for the
ArcServe server, not the clients.  Has this changed?

Sue Tull
sue.tull AT smed DOT com

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Subject: Re: Win95 and NT bare metal restore

Cheyenne just came out with an product for doing NT recovery from
diskette. It creates a copy of the 3 NT installation diskettes, then
modifies them, and creates a 4th diskette.  It's designed to work with
their Arcserve software but is supposed to work with other backup
software as well.

Tim Pittson
tpittson AT himail.hcc DOT com

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>From:  Eric van Loon[SMTP:evanloon AT KLM DOT NL]
>Sent:  Monday, June 02, 1997 5:17 PM
>To:    ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject:       Re: Win95 and NT bare metal restore
>
>Although I don't know how, there has to be a way to do a bare metal restore
>from disks. Seagate's Backup Exec does this. It creates a set of two disks
>which allowes you to boot and it mounts your tapedrive afterwards. It all
>works in the Windows 95 DOS mode in which the ADSM DOS recovery scenario
>should work too. The only tricky thing is that Seagate's people are somehow
>able to restore the bootdrive INCLUDING the long-filenames!
>So the problem of bare metal restoring Windows 95 can be solved if the IBM
>people can find out the trick Seagate uses.
>Kindest regards,
>Eric van Loon
>
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>From:   Klaus Dilper
>Sent:   Monday, June 02, 1997 17:01
>To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject:        Re: Win95 and NT bare metal restore
>
>On Fri, 30 May 1997 16:26:58 -0400, Michael R Vogt wrote:
>>
>>I do not have a locally attached backup device or an OS/2 system available,
>>so it looks to me like my only choice is to create bootable DOS diskettes,
>>as explained in the DOS/Windows 3.1 procedure.
>>
>>Is this correct? And if so, where do I find all those files? Quite a few are
>>nowhere to be found on my Windows 95 system. Do I need to find an old Win
>>3.1
>>system or is there an alternate list of Win 95 files that I can use?
>
>Hallo Michael,
>
>as a member of the Bare Metal Restore Project, I have to add that we had
>a lot
>of trouble finding a way to recover Win95 and WinNT without installing
>the whole
>operating system again. You're right, we only found those tree methods
>in the
>case of Win95. Unfortunately those methods are only for people who have
>access
>to this 'special' kind of equipment and are not simple to implement. It
>seems to be less
>time intensive to reinstall from scratch, but this was not the way we
>looked for. (We asked
>some guys from Mircosoft for some hints or tips, but didn't get any
>response! BTW, we also
>asked on ADSM-L for suggestions about any kind of operating system, but
>the response
>was not remarkable.) If one of those methods is practical for you, you
>WILL be much faster
>back on production as on reinstalling the system, but you have to spend
>time in testing the
>stuff as we did. Not even one system looks like another.  To keep the
>book up to date
>(it's was written in Aug./Sept. '96) we're realy interested in any
>practical way of doing recovery
>from scratch.
>
>Klaus
>
>PS: Don't try to overload a reinstalled base system with an ADSM backup,
>it will normaly kill the
>whole machine. Try to install  to a temp directory or even better to a
>separate partition and fix
>the boot strap or use a boot manager.
>
>
>
>
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