>*** Comments From: STEWAJM - Stewart, Mike; 06/16/98 10:09am
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>Has anyone else been receiving "ADSM offBeat" from IBM?
>It is a newsletter which contains articles about ADSM
>(written in a "hip" format).
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>I've been unable to find any documentation about the features
>described in the following article.
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>The Spring 1998 version contains the following article:
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>ADSM's latest annoucement: A PAIR is One of a Kind
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>Disaster Recovery
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>Now you've got a slick option to use boot diskettes to dump
>a disk image of your hard drive to your ADSM server.  Then
>if you need to recover your hard drive--magic!--you simply
>insert these diskettes again, restore the disk image, and
>reboot your system, and restore the rest of your files.
>You can do this for any Intel-based work station (e.g. NT, ... ).
>It don't get any better 'n that!  So What're you waiting for,
>you owe yourself a look a DRM.
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>As I read this, you can create a stand-alone boot diskette which
>backs up and restores a disk image.  We don't use DRM, but
>this feature sounds very interesting.  However, in looking
>through the DRM manuals I've seen nothing about this feature.
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>Anyone have any more info on this?
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