I am also interested in answers to this, as it is something I will
eventually have to address too.

Obviously you cannot restore without installing the OS to run the client,
and having the right filesystem layout to restore into.

This means that there are two basic options:

1. install the OS to a different disk, set up the filesystems, and then you
   have to know how to restore to a different location (because the
   filesystems will not be mounted with their normal names)

2. identify which OS files you cannot safely restore while the OS is
   running, and exclude them from backup.

There could be variations on #1, such as creating a boot CD with the OS and
client on it.

With regard to #2, does anyone have a list of such files?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arturo Lopez [SMTP:arturo.lopez AT USAA DOT COM]
> Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 10:13 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Restore Sun Solaris from scratch
>
> Hello All
>
> Is anyone familiar with restoring Sun Solaris from scratch.  I have a Sun
> Sys Admin that does not believe TSM can restore the entire OS from
> scratch.
> With AIX we use a SYSBACK to take an image of the OS and restore the image
> and then apply the incremental to bring the OS back to pristine level.
> Does
> anyone have experience restoring a Sun Solaris box from scratch...
>
> On the Intel world running WinNT 4.0.  We load a second instance of NT and
> then boot into the second instance and restore the original OS and
> Registry.
> Then reboot server into original instance.....Can you do this with
> Sun......
>
>
> Thx
>
>
>
> Arturo Lopez
> IT Systems Programmer
> 210.913.1845
> 210.753-1845