James,

   In the ADSM DR Teleconference IBM gave last week, one of the topics was
ADSM futures.  One the future goals IBM has is to have a bootable disk set
for each client to do what you (and I) desire.  No date was mentioned.
There are already OS/2 boot disks available on the FTP site in the
unsupported directory.

I saw a very interesting product on the site WWW.NTINTERNALS.COM last week.
 This product allows you to boot a NT machine from a diskette and then
connect that machine via a serial cable to another machine.  This second
machine can access all of the original machine's hard drives.  I am playing
with the idea of testing a procedure where a "bare metal" machine is booted
from this diskette and then a minimal operating system and adsm is copied
over from a second machine. Obviously, from that point on a full restore of
the failed machine would be initiated.  I would appreciate all the NT
experienced forum members to let me know what they think of this
possibility.  There is also a product on that web site that shows exactly
how insecure NT's security is.

Good Luck,

Dan T.

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> From: James C. Harrer, SE/CRM, /Long Grove, G-5 JHARRER - CPOLNM01
> From: James C. Harrer, SE/CRM, /Long Grove, G-5 JHARRER - CPOLNM01
<us2b7kdb AT IBMMAIL DOT COM>
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Using ADSM to restore Win/NT 4.0 operating system
> Date: Monday, May 19, 1997 10:10 AM
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> RE:  Using ADSM to restore a Win/NT 4.0 Server operating system
>
> I heard many of you are successfully restoring Win/NT 4.0 OS using a
separate
> bootable partition and then restoring to the real production boot
partition.
> That sounds pretty good but leaves me with a question and a wish.
>
> 1.  What files, if any are excluded from backup?  I'm not sure the
recommended
> include/exclude list that comes with ADSM is appropriate.
>
> 2.  I do not like having to install a second bootable partition on all my
> Win/NT systems.  It wastes space and complicates startup procedures for
my
> customers.  Is there any hope of getting a procedure to boot a down
machine
> from diskettes, do a virtual drive attachment from a different Win/NT
systems
> and restoring the down operating system partition from there?