Further:

1. If there are issues with system objects during a bare-metal restore,
you get Microsoft support for the NTBACKUP restore.
2. 1 single NTBACKUP 450MB file restores from tape a lot faster than
3000 files totaling 450MB.

--
Mark Stapleton (stapleton AT berbee DOT com)
Berbee Information Networks
Office 262.521.5627  

>-----Original Message-----
>From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On 
>Behalf Of Jones, Eric J
>Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 11:27 AM
>To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject: Re: Question on the preschedulecmd
>
>The problem with Win2K is that when you backup the 
>"SYSTEMOBJECT", it backs everything up each time you run a 
>backup.  We backup the servers nightly and need to keep all 
>data for a minimum of 90 days(including the system object 
>backup).  I had only ever backed up UNIX machines so I never 
>had this problem until recently.  With the NTBACKUP you can 
>backup to a single file then have TSM backup that file so 1 
>file is backed up to TSM instead of 1900+.  The amount of data 
>does not change but the number of files does to the database.
>
>Eric
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On 
>Behalf Of Steve Schaub
>Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 11:15 AM
>To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject: Re: Question on the preschedulecmd
>
>
>All,
>Maybe I missed the beginning of this thread, but I'm curious 
>as to the advantage of scripting the ntbackup over using the 
>built-in tsm client backup of 
>systemobject/systemstate/systemservice?  Does this help DR in some way?
>-steve
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Stapleton, Mark [mailto:mark.stapleton AT BERBEE DOT COM]
>Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 4:46 PM
>To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject: Re: Question on the preschedulecmd
>
>
>From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On 
>Behalf Of Jones, Eric J
>>I'm at the point where I've tested backing up the SYSTEM STATE with 
>>NTBACKUP, having TSM backup the drives and exclude the SYSTEM OBJECT, 
>>then rebuild the system, restore with TSM and
>>use NTBACKUP to restore the SYSTEM STATE.   I have a batch
>>file to kick off NTBACKUP for the SYSTEM STATE backup and want to use 
>>the "preschedulecmd" to run this before TSM scans for changed 
>files and 
>>does the scheduled backup.  I need to make sure the batch file 
>>completes before TSM does the backup.
>>Would there be any situation that TSM might start backing up 
>before the 
>>prescheduledcmd completes?
>
>A PRESCHEDCMD batch file must complete successfully (with 
>RC=0) before the backup will happen; if a non-zero return code 
>comes up, or the batch file hangs for any reason, the backup 
>will not happen.
>
>What some have had better luck with is running the NTBACKUP 
>batch file as a POSTSCHEDCMD. If the NTBACKUP hangs or fails 
>(which happens once in a while), using POSTSCHEDCMD will not 
>prevent the backup from completing. Yeah, the NTBACKUP results 
>are 24 hours old when they get backed up, but does your system 
>state change that frequently?
>
>--
>Mark Stapleton (stapleton AT berbee DOT com)
>Berbee Information Networks
>Office 262.521.5627
>