In order to restore Win2K or Windows 2003 you have to know about the "In-Place 
Upgrade" process.  This is run when you boot from an Install CD and then pick 
the Repair option that is after you press F8 to accept the license agreement.  
This is very important because if you pick Repair before the license agreement 
then you are running the recovery console which is not what you want.  Refer to 
MS's KB article 292175 - How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade of Windows 2000 for 
more information on this process.



Note that it is very important that you use an Install CD that has been slip 
streamed with the proper service pack.  In other words if the system you are 
restoring had SP4. Then you need to have an Install with SP4 slip streamed into 
it for best results.  Now, using the base Install CD from MS without slip 
streaming will work but sometimes it doesn't and I have found that when it 
doesn't work a slipstreamed CD will.



I have used this process with TSM to restore to different RAID adapters, 
different vendors, MPS to ACPI and back.



We have even recently used this process to restore a single CPU server to a 
Dual.  This has been something I couldn't get to work in the past and using the 
slip stream CD seemed to be the trick.



I can state without a doubt that this will work with TSM.  I do have full 
documented procedures on how to do all this on Win2K and Win2003. I also have 
the old NT4.0 doc.  Unfortunately, because I am a consultant I can't give it 
away.  However, I will list the KB articles that I used to come up with the 
procedures.  Simply replace NTBackup with TSM and you should be able to get 
this stuff done.



249694 - How to Move a Windows 2000 Installation to Different Hardware  - This 
is the old article that I used to come up with my documentation.  Note that it 
doesn't really state anything about recovery but the steps are the same.



263532 - How to perform a disaster recovery restoration of Active Directory on 
a computer with a different hardware configuration - This document is the 
latest one out there.  As you can see it actually states "disaster recovery".



292175 - How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade of Windows 2000 - Both of the above 
2 articles refer to "In-Place Upgrade".  This is the step that I was talking to 
you about which I use in my documents.  Note that it doesn't state this but I 
believe best results are found when using a Win2K CD with a service pack 
slipstreamed in it for the CD you use for the "In-Place Upgrade".


Henrik Hansson <henrik_hansson AT ALBINT DOT COM> wrote:
Hello TSM'ers

I know that a bare metal restore on a W2K system works fine as long as the
restore is doen to a similar system, hardware vice.

But do anyone know how to do the same to a system with different hardware?

I've tried it but haven't succeded. The system don't boot but give me a
system error.

1. Have anyone done such a restore to a diffrent hardware system?

2. Does anyone know if ITSM will support such in the future. I know that
veritas have a product that accomplish this.



Med Vdnlig Hdlsning/ Best Regards
_____________________________
Henrik Hansson

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