Is there a "political" reason why the procedures, etc. that have already been
developed by the user community couldn't be put in the "Nonsupported"
directory on the FTP server?  Perhaps the mirror sites could pick this info up
without he legal entanglements......

Jerry Lawson
jlawson AT itthartford DOT com
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Subject: Re: ADSM client disaster recovery
08-06-96 03:23 PM

On Tue, 6 Aug 1996 11:48:54 EDT Cyndie Behrens said:
>Roger, we're working on a Client Disaster Recovery: Bare Metal Restore
>book right now.  Pat Randall, our newest ADSM ITSO member, heading up
>this project.  We will describe various approaches that should be considered
>for any platform: bootable recovery, recovery from a peer lan server, and
>recovery using s/w dist techniques.
>
>The platforms we will focus on are OS2, lan server, warp server, AIX, and
>NetWare.  The book probably won't be available until the end of the year.
>We are happy to take any input from folks who already have a working solution
>in place....thanks, Cyndie Behrens, IBM - ITSO San Jose 408-927-3627

The approach for doing bootable restore for some platforms has already been
described on this list in the past, for OS/2 and NetWare (many thanks to
Jerry Lawson and others).  It will be nice to see this info collected in
one place (tho I think putting it up on your Web Server would be much more
useful than putting it in a Red Book).

I would be particularly interested in seeing bootable restore techniques not
just described in a RedBook, but made an integral part of the ADSM product
(e.g., documented in the User's Guides).  This has got to be one of the main
areas where we spend a considerable amount of effort trying to make ADSM into
a product that we can actually use here.  Also, we need it for Windows,
Windows95, Sun/Solaris, and HP-UX, and Macintosh (in addition to the
ones you mentioned above).

Not to put too fine a point on it, but I think this is an area where ADSM
has been sorely lacking.  I would think that this is one area where it would
make a lot of sense for IBM to put some effort, in order to make ADSM a much
more useful backup solution than it already is (and I mean more than just
writing a Red Book).

..Paul

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