Yes, the redbook on Bare Metal Recoveries does show you how to do a recovery
of an OS/2 Server using
boot disks and an Adsm client code diskette, but the book has not been
updated for ADSM V3.

I was trying to figure out how to make the diskettes the other day when we
lost two Os/2 servers, but
I'm not exactly Os/2 savvy. I failed miserabley and ended up placing the
corrupt hard disks in another machine and restoring onto these disks.. not
much fun at all.
The partitions I lost were only 300Mb each but the whole process of opening
up machines and swapping disks around took me 5hours.

I would really much prefer the boot disk method.Does anyone know how the
docs in Bare Metal Recovery can be updated for ADSM V3.

Nathan

        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Kenneth Bury [SMTP:kbury AT CAROLINA.RR DOT COM]
        Sent:   Wednesday, July 28, 1999 7:06 AM
        To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
        Subject:        Re: OS/2 Restore with floppies

        OS/2 can be booted from floppies and then connect to the ADSM server
to do
        full restores. The trick is to get the network and disk device
drivers onto
        the boot diskettes. OS/2 has utilities to build these boot
diskettes. I wish
        all operating systems were this simple.

        Ken


        > -----Original Message-----
        > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On
Behalf Of
        > Arshad Munir
        > Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 07:56
        > To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
        > Subject: OS/2 Restore with floppies
        >
        >
        > Hello ADSMers,
        >
        >   Someone has put me in doubt that they can start a OS2 client
        > with floppies with an ADSM client code on it, connect with server
        > & restore a partition of a disk with normal backup or archive
        > with OS2 client for ADSM.
        >   As far as I know we can use "Bare Metal Restore" only to do
that.
        > But we are talking to complete disk not partitions & also
        > restoring it with backup done by "dump disk #"  command
        > not from the backup and archive.
        >    Is there a way to do the first one...
        >
        > Thanks in advance..
        >
        > Arshad Munir
        >
        >
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