Hi,

I tested ASR and image backup/recovery using (bart)pe.
ASR runs quite fine unfortunately you have to switch quiten often floppy disks 
and CDs.
Image backup works ok as well. However compared to ghost/symantec you have to 
build your own PE bootable media *AND* TSM doesn't automatically repartition 
your drives. You have to do it manually. Up to now I quite often the disk 
layout wasn't exactly the same as before.
Maybe Tivoli is working on that if the community requests that feature?

Regards,
..--
David le Blanc <david.leblanc AT IDENTITY-SOLUTIONS.COM DOT AU> wrote:

>I've been performing BMR's for the last month on a set of servers, and
>have come up with the following recommendations:
>
>1)  ASR on windows 2k3 is good. it removes the need for exactly
>      matching disks on the target, and is quite quick.
>
>2)    Using (bart)PE, I've used backup image and restore image to
>      simulate recovery to new hardware.  very problematic, and
>      prone to significant problems relating to disk offset mismatches.
>      on EXACTLY like for like hardware (ie, the server it came from)
>      it always works perfectly.
>
>    BTW, with this, I tested offline image backups and online
>      image backup with LV snapshot support.  Both work equally
>      well, hence no outage is required to complete the image backup.
>
>While (2) seems good, you have to have images lying around, and this
>can be costly in terms of TSM storage space.
>
>Ibm publish a technote (techtips0102 on www.redbooks.ibm.com) which
>describes the BMR procedure for windows 2000 and windows NT.  I can
>vouch the windows 2000 method described works extremely well, and I
>have had better success with it than even with windows 2k3 ASR.
>
>PS, I've used 5.3.0.5 and 5.3.0.8 for backup and recovery testing..
>
>
>Cheers.
>Dave
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: TSM_User [mailto:tsm_user AT YAHOO DOT COM]
>Sent: Wednesday, 15 June 2005 10:21 AM
>To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Bare Metal Restore for Windows 2003 / Disaster
>recovery of Windows 2003
>
>I've tested all the options.  I really like the on-line image backup and
>the off-line image restore with WinPE.  Note if you se a Windows 2003
>built WinPE cd you must be at TSM client V5.3.0.5 or later.
>
>K.
>
>David Browne <dbrowne AT HUMANA DOT COM> wrote:
>"Bare Metal Restore for Windows 2003"
>
>We are trying to figure out the best way to do a bare metal restore of
>Win2003.
>
>Does anyone recommend using ASR, PE, Cristie or something else?
>
>
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