Re: Question about full Restores Part 2

Farren,

while I cannot help with Solaris part, for the Windows part there is a
redbook SG24-6141-00 "Deploying the Tivoli Storage Manager Client in a Windows
2000 Environment"
Even it is rather old (for v4.1 client) suggestions and procedures there
are very good. I used it with success (and even recently restored my own
ThinkPad after HDD failure).

Zlatko Krastev
IT Consultant






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Added to the email below, we are currently trying to do a full restore of
a
Windows 2000 machine using client level 4.2.2.8 (It's only a test
machine).
The restore consists of the c:\ drive and also the System Objects. When we
run the restore, the machine reboots without any warning. Is this supposed
to happen. The problem is that because it reboots, it doesn't send any
info
to the Server to give the restore statistics. The machine isn't coming
back
up again properly.

Should we restore the System Objects first? Has any one else had problems
with this.

Unfortunately, I know almost nothing about NT or 2000 being a Solaris
admin, so I may be doing this completely wrong.

Thanks

Farren




Hi All Again

I am a little confused about how restores are handled. Here is my
confusion.

We run TSM 4.2.2.12 on a Solaris 2.7 machine.

So, we have a Solaris client backed up in its entirety (OS, data etc). If
we lose the machine we must firstly rebuild the OS. Then, when we come to
restore from the incremental backups it will find lots of files that
already exist.

Question 1) Does it say a file exists based purely on file name or does it
only say it if a file with the same name, modification date, size etc
exists?

Question 2) If it is based just on the name of the file, I assume that we
would want to restore over the top of it so that we know we are bringing
the machine up to it's most recent state. But, will the system not crash
if
system files are being overwritten? There may be more questions that I
need
to ask here, but my knowledge is limited.

If anyone can give me some pointers about these questions, I would be most
greatful.

Many thanks

Farren Minns - TSM and Solaris System Admin - John Wiley & Sons Ltd

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