Andy:
  It has been awhile, so the details are somewhat hazy, but our Windows
Sys Admins used to do restore Win 2003 in this manner as part of BMR
exercises on a regular basis on a test system.  Generally it worked - but
the one time it failed, it was because the corruption existed in the
registry when the registry was backed up, so TSM faithfully restored the
corrupted registry.  Sadly, this was the one time the BMR was attempted on
a production system.  Quite a mess at  the time.

  I don't know of any means of verifying registry corruption, but would
recommend checking for that as best you can before creating the backup.

  HTH,
Bob T
EZ-Backup Team
Cornell University

On 1/14/11 6:19 PM, "Huebner,Andy,FORT WORTH,IT"
<Andy.Huebner AT ALCONLABS DOT COM> wrote:

>We are testing how to restore Windows 2003 by booting WinPE and running
>the TSM client.  We need to be able to do a system restore from a file
>level backup.
>We have the document "Tivoli Storage Manager Recovery Techniques
>Using Windows Pre-installation Environment
>(Windows PE)" version 2.5 and we have followed the instructions.
>Everything worked except the system failed to boot with a corrupt
>registry message.
>Has anyone successfully done a WinPE restore without using an image
>backup?
>
>TSM server 5.4.5.0
>TSM agent 5.5.2.1