TSM with the addition of The Kernel Group's product
Bare Metal Restore can restore Sun Solaris from scratch.
Even a Solaris machine that uses Veritas Volume Manager.
Other supported platforms are AIX, HPUX and Windows NT.
The backups of the OS are incremental so you don't have
a huge OS image file and the backup is always up to date.

You can find more details at http://www.tkg.com.

Arturo Lopez wrote:
> 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
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