HP has ignite
AIX has NIM and myksysb and sysback
SUN had there own also.

Jeff Bach

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ray Schafer [SMTP:schafer AT TKG DOT COM]
> Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 6:51 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Re: restoring client as a full OS install?
>
> Alex,
>
> As far as I know, TKG's Bare Metal Restore is the only product
> (commercial or otherwise) to restore an NT, 2000, AIX, Solaris, or HP UX
> machine from bare metal.  It is also a fully automated restore, using
> only the data in TSM to restore the system.  The web link is
> http://www.tkg.com/bmr/tsm.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
>
> Alexander Lazarevich wrote:
>
> >I'd like to know if anyone has restored a client to a blank/new drive in
> >order to fully bring back the OS. What I mean is this: If a client disk
> >drive fails, and I need bring that client machine back up ASAP, it would
> >be quicker if I could restore every single file that was backed up for
> the
> >client. If all system/install/data files on the client were backed up,
> >then the restore should work, right? This would be quicker than
> >reinstalling all apps, because we have a lot of apps...
> >
> >I already tried this. But it didn't work because I was trying to restore
> >to a drive that was the currently running OS client, and I think ADSM was
> >unable to restore files that were running processes. So now I'm going to
> >try and restore to a second clean drive that I installed in the machine.
> >I also installed a base OS on the second drive, rather than keeping it a
> >clean drive with a formated filesystem of the OS type. I'm not sure if
> one
> >was is better than another.
> >
> >I read the ADSM manual, thinking that the section called "Disaster
> >Recovery" would be just what I'm doing, and it's not. I already know what
> >my machine specs are, I just need to know if I can trully restore the OS.
> >
> >Cause everything on a computer is a file, right? If that's true then this
> >should work, right?
> >
> >Anyone done this before?
> >
> >Thanks in advance,
> >
> >Alex
> >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >Alex Lazarevich
> >Systems Administrator
> >Imaging Technology Group, http://www.itg.uiuc.edu
> >Beckman Institute, http://www.beckman.uiuc.edu
> >405 N. Mathews, Urbana IL  61801  USA
> >Ph: (217)244-1565 e-mail: alazarev AT itg.uiuc DOT edu
> >_________________________________________________
> >
> >
>
> --
> Ray Schafer             The Kernel Group       www.tkg.com
> Sr. Sales Engineer      schafer AT tkg DOT com    +1 512 433 3300


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