Well I think that it is to be assumed that the hardware is identical or at
least similar. Going from IDE to SCSI is not similar. You could always just
install NT and ADSM at your hot site and not restore the entire server, just
the database log, volhist, devconfig, etc if you were testing recovering
clients. Checkout the Administrators Guide, Chapter 21 Using the Disaster
Recovery Manager,  the section titled A DRM User Scenario details this well.

Mark


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Denier [SMTP:Thomas.Denier AT MAIL.TJU DOT EDU]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 1999 12:17 PM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Bare metal recovery of Windows NT
>
> My site just went through a disaster recovery test. In the process we
> discovered a critical (and as far as I can tell, unstated) assumption in
> IBM's
> documentation of bare metal recovery processes for Windows NT.
>
> The Windows system restored during the test did not have a separate
> recovery
> partition, so we used a variant of the method IBM suggests. We installed
> Windows NT and the ADSM client from CDROM into directories other than the
> normal ones. We then restored all of the files originally present in the
> partition and attempted to reboot. I think we would have had the same
> problems
> if we had used a separate recovery partition.
>
> We were successful in recreating the original population of files.
> Unfortunately, some of the files in that population were incompatible with
> the
> hardware environment at the hot site. Our production system ran on single
> processor HP system with the C partition on an IDE drive. Our hot site
> vendor
> provided us with a dual processor Compaq with only SCSI drives. Our
> Windows NT
> specialists are still working on documenting the machinations they went
> through to get the system running at the hot site. As nearly as I can
> figure
> out what happened, they had to edit the boot.ini file in the root
> directory to
> get it to show the right disk type, hardware address, and partition number
> for
> the partition containing the Windows system, and then copy a number of
> files
> from the \wintemp directory tree (the one containing the copy of Windows
> installed from CDROM at the hot site) to the \winnt directory tree (the
> one
> containing the copy of Windows restored from the ADSM server). These
> included
> the hardware-oriented registry hives, hal.dll, and a file whose contents
> depended on the number of processors.