[from the TSM mailing list--points to a link detailing Windows registry
gotchas for bare-metal restores]

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Mark Stapleton (stapleton AT berbee DOT com)
Berbee Information Networks
Office 262.521.5627  

>-----Original Message-----
>From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On 
>Behalf Of Robertson, Louis
>Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 4:01 PM
>To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject: Re: Backing up SYSTEMOBJECT on Win2K machines
>
>Eric,
>
>In the event of a disaster you will probably be restoring to 
>dissimilar equipment.  If that is the case and you are running 
>W2K with SP3 and you are using the ntbackup of the systemstate 
>you definitely want to read Microsoft's knowledge base article 
>249694, ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/249694 )specifically 
>the section on changing the registry key - KeysNotToRestore.  
>Prior to installing SP4 our test restores to dissimilar 
>equipment was not very successful until we made the 
>"KeysNotToRestore" registry change referenced in this article.
>
>Louis
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On 
>Behalf Of Jones, Eric J
>Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 1:52 PM
>To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject: Backing up SYSTEMOBJECT on Win2K machines
>
>
>Good Afternoon.
>I've seen a few post on the backup of the SYSTEMOBJECT for 
>win2k and I'm looking for the best way to backup our win2K systems.
>I have 4 systems that I currently backup with another 10+ to go.
>Most of my machines are UNIX so I've never had a problem with this.
>It seems like the DB is growing faster than it use to and I'd 
>like to prevent rapid growth once the others are included.
>It's my understanding that all of the SYSTEMOBJECT files are 
>backed up with every backup(incremental).
>We keep all data for 90 days and the systems are backed up 
>Monday-Friday .
>Is it more efficient/better to have ntbackup backup the 
>SYSTEMOBJECT to a file before the TSM backup, then have TSM 
>backup this file nightly with the regular TSM backup?
>Is there any problem with recovery of the machine using this 
>method(ntbackup then TSM)?
>Is there any advantages/disadvantages to using this method?
>Generally how many files does the SYSTEMOBJECT backup contain?
>We are currently on AIX 5.2/TSM 5.2.2 server and win2K SP3 clients.