Nicolas wrote:

        "3. What about backing up the system state of a windows 2000 server?
        Is it ok to perform "dsmc backup systemstate" or is better to use
NTBackup
        utility and save the backup file on the disk and then backup that
file with
        TSM."

I use ntbackup to backup up the systemstate because I found in earlier
versions of TSM (4.x) I had problems restoring with just the "dsmc backup
systemstate".  We have a preschedule task that does an ntbackup of the
systemstate prior to our incremental backups.  Here is the syntax I use:
ntbackup backup systemstate /f "C:\Srvutils\Systemstate.bkf" /m copy

Louis

G Louis Robertson
Senior Systems Analyst

BearingPoint
glouisrobertson AT BearingPoint DOT net
Cell (717) 903-1324
Fax (717) 213-6101


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