OS/2 can be booted from floppies and then connect to the ADSM server to do
full restores. The trick is to get the network and disk device drivers onto
the boot diskettes. OS/2 has utilities to build these boot diskettes. I wish
all operating systems were this simple.

Ken


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf Of
> Arshad Munir
> Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 07:56
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: OS/2 Restore with floppies
>
>
> Hello ADSMers,
>
>   Someone has put me in doubt that they can start a OS2 client
> with floppies with an ADSM client code on it, connect with server
> & restore a partition of a disk with normal backup or archive
> with OS2 client for ADSM.
>   As far as I know we can use "Bare Metal Restore" only to do that.
> But we are talking to complete disk not partitions & also
> restoring it with backup done by "dump disk #"  command
> not from the backup and archive.
>    Is there a way to do the first one...
>
> Thanks in advance..
>
> Arshad Munir
>
>
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