Re: Restores in test lab
2004-08-13 13:08:34
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Cooper, Melinda
>We are preparing for an off-site Disaster recovery drill, in our test
>lab I've installed two parallel Windows 2000 servers that mirror our
>production environment along with the TSM client V5.1. In the test lab
>I've built the operating system with HP SmartStart V7.1 along with
>Windows 2000 CD. The production servers have TSM V5.1 installed, the
>dsm.opt file has 'domain-all local' so the system objects and files are
>being backed up. In our test environment the first portion is to
>restore the system objects. After the restore is completed
>then you are
>required to reboot the machine. Since the servers are on dissimilar
>hardware we tend to get an 'inaccessible_boot_device' upon reboot.
If you're getting an 'inaccessible_boot_device' message, the disk
controller driver that was restored is not compatible with the disk
controller installed on your DR box. The source server probably has a
different controller (or a different release of the same controller)
than the target server.
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Mark Stapleton
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