On 01/27/95 04:19 PM Phil West wrote ...

>At our site, we backup our OS/2 workstations with IBM ADSM over a TCP/IP
>network to a big IBM Mainframe of some sort.  One apparent omission from
>the ADSM recovery procedure, though, concerns full system recovery.
>That is, if the system disk on one of our workstations were to fail, we
>did not want to get a new disk and then:
>
>1) re-install OS/2
>2) re-install TCP/IP
>3) re-install IBM ADSM
>4) recover the rest of the lost system
>
>The solution written up here shows how to create 3 boot diskettes so
>that you simply install the new hard disk, boot off the floppies, fdisk
>and format the hard disk and then run the dsmc restore function to
>re-create your system, desktop and all.
>
>This worked on my system with 16mb ram and 2-floppies. a: is a 3.5"
>1.44mb and b: is a 5.25 1.2mb.  I am running OS/2 v. 2.11 and TCP/IP
>2.0.
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Can ADSM tech support provide such a procedure for full Windows client
recovery for those of us running Windows and FTP's TCP/IP?
Thanks in advance.

Abi
(abi.admassu AT ucop DOT edu)