Is the windows 2000 version available yet?

On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Ray Schafer wrote:

> The Bare Metal Restore product from The Kernel Group
> (http://www.tkg.com/products/bmr/tsm) has the ability to use the backup
> data in TSM to recover your server.  The "prepare to restore" operation
> can be issued with a single command and will create a customized restore
> procedure that will automatically recover the entire machine, or if you
> prefer, just the rootvg.  The prepare to restore operation will also
> allocate the BMR file and boot server components so they will answer the
> network boot and NFS requests of the server being recovered.
>
> It works well, and the restore is automated: prepare to restore and
> network boot.  That's it.
>
> Lisa Cabanas wrote:
>
> >Thanks for your reply, Herfried.  It brings to mind some other questions
> >regarding other volume groups.  Say you have all your Oracle stuff on one
> >or two different vgs.  Would you need to have done a savevg sometime in
> >the past to get the vg back, or at bare metal time would you need to
> >manually create the volume group and lvs and fss associated with it, and
> >then fill it with the data from TSM?
> >
> >I went and looked for a bare metal Redbook for AIX and found the one from
> >1997 that deals with AIX 4.1-- is it still pretty applicable to 4.3.3?  I
> >wonder if TSM still "supports" a bare metal for AIX, or if it is now
> >unsupported like Win2K is?
> >
> >
> >thanks
> >lisa
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >Herfried Abel <ha7 AT DAIMLERCHRYSLER DOT COM>
> >08/09/2001 01:52 AM
> >Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"
> >
> >
> >        To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> >        cc:     (bcc: Lisa Cabanas/SC/MODOT)
> >        Subject:        Re: AIX 4.3.3 list of excludable files & filesystems
> >
> >
> >
> >Lisa,
> >
> >All the filesystems within the rootvg are backed up with a mksysb as long
> >as they are not explicit excluded from rthe mksysb. In general AIX does
> >not
> >delete (major) files on reboot as other UNIX's do ( eg /tmp ).
> >This is how we do the restore of an AIX machine :
> >1) restore mksysb
> >2) restore "OS-definitions" via TSM ( rootvg filesystems eg. /etc ) ( TSM
> >Client already restored by mksysb )
> >3) restore filesystems (non rootvg) via TSM
> >4) restore application-data ( DBs eg. ORACLE,SAPDB, MSSQL etc ) via TDP
> >Agents in necessary.
> >
> >Step 2) depends on the time-difference between the mksysb and the last
> >config changes of AIX. Should not be necessary if you make a mksysb after
> >every config change , as all of the sysadmins do :-)
> >
> >So what we do, we dont exclude files from the rootvg in the TSM backup (
> >AIX-OS is not really need much space ) but we exclude lots of temporary
> >application files. We think that at this point we can find a lot of
> >temporary data (eg. SAP rollfiles ).Of cause you have to know your
> >application / Datebase very well, so that you dont exclude a file by
> >mistake.
> >
> >herfried
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >Lisa Cabanas <CABANL AT MAIL.MODOT.STATE.MO DOT US>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 
> >08.08.2001
> >18:20:26
> >
> >Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
> >
> >Sent by:  "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
> >
> >
> >To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> >cc:
> >
> >Subject:  AIX 4.3.3 list of excludable files & filesystems
> >
> >
> >Has anyone ever compiled a list of files and/or file systems that can be
> >excluded from backup either because they are dynamically created by the OS
> >at
> >reboot/syncvg etc
> >or because they are included in a mksysb?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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