Dear All,

Does anybody know if there is any plan in future releases of the TSM client
for W2K, to implement a facility to not replace the hardware dependent
driver information during a system object restore.

My reason for asking ;

We have a requirement to fully restore a W2K server back to different
hardware (ie. different RAID controller and/or different processor
architecture)
At present, our solution is to use NTBACKUP to backup the system state and
TSM to backup the remainder.

NTBACKUP is intelligent enough to not restore hardware dependent drivers
back onto a platform that is different. I cannot get TSM to emulate this.

The above solution is OK, but I am backing up the WINNT directory with TSM
as flat files, then I am backing up the System Object with TSM and finally
backing up the flat file generated by the NTBACKUP system state operation.

It all seems a bit needless really. ( I know I could exlude WINNT but as yet
I don't know of any way to exclude the systemobject).

Any thoughts or knowledge of future client releases would be welcome.

Thanks

  regards,

-=Dave=-
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