I'm not a fan of the ADSM bare metal restore.
We have an image ( Ghost Professional) of all the 95 machine types. If a
users machine is toast we re-image the machine with the appropriate image.
The image has the base apps also along with ADSM client. We configure the
machine with the users information which re-create the profile and then we
restore the data files only. It take 15 minutes to re-image and then data
restore. It's cleaner. One of our issues with the bare metal restore was
that if the machine had corrupted OS  or registry information we may be
re-introducing the problem back on to the maching and chasing our tale.


C

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Cris Robinson
Sr. Technical Analyst
Enterprise Storage Management / TSM (ADSM)
Liberty Mutual Insurance
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
603.431.8400.54837
mailto:cris.robinson AT libertymutual DOT com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Remeta, Mark [SMTP:MRemeta AT SELIGMANDATA DOT COM]
> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 1:26 PM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Re: Restoring user profiles
>
> I'm not sure about backing up an active user profile, I thought that
> worked
> but haven't tested it. We backup our users workstations at night, when no
> one is logged on, by running the ADMS Scheduler Service as a service on
> the
> workstations. It works great as long as they don't turn off there
> computers.
>
>
> Mark
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Franklin [mailto:kpfadsm AT HOTMAIL DOT COM]
> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 1:07 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Restoring user profiles
>
>
> We have been testing ADSM/TSM to see if it will work for our organization.
> We have been having problems with Bare Metal restores - every time we try
> to
> restore a workstation, the user settings are lost and we end up with the
> default profile.  We brought a ADSM/TSM rep on sight and he was baffled.
> He
> had us call tech support and they told us is was an OS issue - Microsoft
> Windows (NT or 95) does not allow the active profile to be backed up.
> This
> means in order to back up the profile, the user would need to log out, log
> in with another username, run a backup, log out and log back in as
> themselves.  A lot of people, in particular those who most need to be
> backed
> up, just aren't going to be willing to go through all that.
>
> Is what the tech support guy told me correct?  Is ADSM/TSM really unable
> to
> back up the active user?  Does anyone know of a workaround?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ken
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