Ah! The education continues... I am not a Win2K person, but would it not be
possible to rebuild a system from scratch using a CD and then restoring
non-system files? Granted, there would be some configuration for local
environment but... that is why we do a makesisbee tape and exclude the root
volume groups when backing up our AIX boxes...

George Lesho
System/Storage Admin
AFC Enterprises





"Prather, Wanda" <Wanda.Prather AT JHUAPL DOT EDU> on 06/01/2001 03:46:01 PM

Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>

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Subject:  Re: Issues with Win2K SYSTEM OBJECT/SYSTEM FILES backup



No.  By definition, the way TSM has implemented SYSTEM OBJECT backup, it
backs up those files whether they are changed or not.  Always.

And we can't exclude them and retain the ability to do bare-metal restores.