ADSM-L

Re: Client recovery with the DRM

1998-04-03 08:10:29
Subject: Re: Client recovery with the DRM
From: Eric van Loon <evanloon AT KLM DOT NL>
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 13:10:29 +-200
Hi Dennis!
I did the NT server recovery. Same result: no problems at all!
I backed up the C: drive (NTFS formatted). I then deleted the C: partition, 
created a primary DOS partition on the drive and started a restore dump for the 
same drive.
The result was as expected: the c: drive contained a NTFS formatted partition 
afterwards and NT came up fine!
The process doesn't differ from the OS/2 recovery at all. The DRM interface 
doesn't look at the disk format. It just treats the disk a one object to be 
backed up.
There is only one downside: The DRM can only backup complete disks, not single 
partitions. So if your disk 1 contains a C: and a D: partition, you cannot dump 
the C: partition only. Since the servers I manage have a single harddisk with 
two partitions disaster recovery would mean a full disk dump of 2 Gb. which can 
be quit lengthy. After the dump restore one has to restore the D: again from 
the last incremental backup to bring everything back up-to-date again.
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>