Re: restoring client as a full OS install?
2001-11-02 07:54:21
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Re: restoring client as a full OS install? |
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Ray Schafer <schafer AT TKG DOT COM> |
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Fri, 2 Nov 2001 06:51:26 -0600 |
Alex,
As far as I know, TKG's Bare Metal Restore is the only product
(commercial or otherwise) to restore an NT, 2000, AIX, Solaris, or HP UX
machine from bare metal. It is also a fully automated restore, using
only the data in TSM to restore the system. The web link is
http://www.tkg.com/bmr/tsm.
Hope that helps.
Alexander Lazarevich wrote:
I'd like to know if anyone has restored a client to a blank/new drive in
order to fully bring back the OS. What I mean is this: If a client disk
drive fails, and I need bring that client machine back up ASAP, it would
be quicker if I could restore every single file that was backed up for the
client. If all system/install/data files on the client were backed up,
then the restore should work, right? This would be quicker than
reinstalling all apps, because we have a lot of apps...
I already tried this. But it didn't work because I was trying to restore
to a drive that was the currently running OS client, and I think ADSM was
unable to restore files that were running processes. So now I'm going to
try and restore to a second clean drive that I installed in the machine.
I also installed a base OS on the second drive, rather than keeping it a
clean drive with a formated filesystem of the OS type. I'm not sure if one
was is better than another.
I read the ADSM manual, thinking that the section called "Disaster
Recovery" would be just what I'm doing, and it's not. I already know what
my machine specs are, I just need to know if I can trully restore the OS.
Cause everything on a computer is a file, right? If that's true then this
should work, right?
Anyone done this before?
Thanks in advance,
Alex
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Alex Lazarevich
Systems Administrator
Imaging Technology Group, http://www.itg.uiuc.edu
Beckman Institute, http://www.beckman.uiuc.edu
405 N. Mathews, Urbana IL 61801 USA
Ph: (217)244-1565 e-mail: alazarev AT itg.uiuc DOT edu
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