IMHO, TKG is the only way to do a BMR automatically, but you should be able to
restore any machine
to current state with TSM and without TKG. Of course, it is far from being an
easy and quick
procedure (specially for Windows).
I recommend you to read a redbook about Bare Metal Restore (I don't remember
exactly the title nor I
have the book code right now, but I could send it to you later if you need it
and cannot find it at
www.ibm.com). There is another publication to read if you are willing to do BMR
to a W2000 machine
(of course, I don't remeber/have the title in this moment).
Those publications doesn't give you all the procedures you need but are a good
start point to
develope your own procedures. We developed and tested procedures for BMR in AIX
(the easiest one,
with mksysb), SUN, HP, NT and W2000, and we had problems only with W2000 (but
we're already working
to improve the processes, and I'm confident that we found a good solution).
Anyway, if you don't have budget problems I'll recommend you to purchase TKG
software which will
mean a lot less headaches to you, and it is perhaps the only way to do BMR on a
big lot of machines
in a reasonable time.
Sergio Cherchyk
Daniel Sparrman wrote:
> Perhaphs AIX as NIM, MKSYSB and SYSBACK, and HP has ignite, and SUN as
> there own to(isn't that NIM?)
>
> But none of these will restore the machine to "current state". They require
> that you make for example a full MKSYSB.
>
> Bare Metal Restore from TKG is the only application that will do a "current
> state" restore.
>
> Best Regards
>
> Daniel Sparrman
> -----------------------------------
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>
> Jeff Bach
> <jdbach@WAL-M To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> ART.COM> cc:
> Sent by: Subject: Re: restoring client as
> a full OS install?
> "ADSM: Dist
> Stor Manager"
> <ADSM-L AT VM DOT MA
> RIST.EDU>
>
>
> 2001-11-02
> 14:49
> Please
> respond to
> "ADSM: Dist
> Stor Manager"
>
>
>
> 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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