I haven't seen it mentioned in this thread, but there is the IBM Redbook, 
SG24-6141: "Deploying the Tivoli Storage Manager Client in a Windows 2000 
Environment" which discusses Windows 2000 recovery using TSM. The 
procedures as given in the book have been tested in our labs, and are 
supported.

Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
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Internet e-mail: storman AT us.ibm DOT com

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The command line is your friend.
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Michael Bartl <michael.bartl AT CW DOT COM>
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11/20/2001 08:56
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        Subject:        Re: BMR for Win2k: Use of NTBACKUP

 

In a standard Win2k environment bare metal recovery using TSM doesn't
work. Of course, the Kernel Group BMR is a great tool, but expensive.

We're investigating another (free) method:
Use NTBACKUP for a backup of all system objects into a file on your
harddisk (about 250MB),
do a TSM incremental afterwards that includes the NTBACKUP file and skip
the system objects (BACKUPREGISTRY NO).

The commandline for NTBACKUP (thanks to Stefan Holzwarth/ADAC) is:
NTBACKUP BACKUP SYSTEMSTATE /F "targetfilename" /L:s /J "your comment"

During restore you can setup a standard Win2k and restore all files from
TSM. Instead of restoring the system objects you just restore the
NTBACKUP file and let NTBACKUP finalize the restore of the system
objects.

We're trying to get more experience during our tests within the next few
days. I'll give a short howto-description when we have come to a result.

Best regards,
Michael Bartl
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Salak Juraj wrote:
> 
> hello all out there,
> 
> BMR related questions seem to repeat periodically
> and good solutions are not obvious.
> 
> I would like to share results of my trivial search after tools for TSM
> related BMR of W2000:
> 
> 
> - virtually no support in current TSM clients, if any
> 
> - rumours about BMR (either additional functionality or additional
> module$$) in the next version of TSM,
> maybe adoption of the Kernel Group´s solution, maybe Tivoli´s own
> solution.
> 
> - currently available BMR from Kernel group looks good,
> its limitation could be its high costs,
> and for some of us the necessity to install an additional unix-based
> BMR-server applikation.
> 
> - there is currently available BMR solutions in different simpler backup
> packages (not TSMM-related).
> I gave a look to Pc-Bax from Cristie, Germany, because I know older
> versions
> of this simple but good backup program, and I liked the support as well.
> 
> They currently do have a usefull BMR module but without TSM
> connectivity.
> They had TSM-conectivity in the past and they claim to offer this module
> soon again.
> 
> They are much cheaper than the solution from Kernel Group.
> 
> 
> For those interested I will likely test this in january or february,
> but I currently do not know more details,
> so please if you have questions do contact  ReinhardT AT Cristie DOT de
> http://www.cristie.com
> 
> I posted his name here with allowance from Mr. Svensson / Sweeden
> who implemented mixed scenario of Pc-Bax and TSM.
> His solutions is shortly desribed further, in appended copy of his mail.
> 
> best regards
> 
> Juraj Salak
> Asamer Familienholding
> j.salak AT asamer DOT at
> Austria
>