If you don't already have it bookmarked, this
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/IBMTivoliStorageManager.html
is a good one to have. From there, you can do TSM-related searches, review
white papers, and get other information.

Go to that page and in the text box labeled "Search our support knowledge
base for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager", do a search on:

   BMR

That will yield several results, including a link to a set of modified
instructions for doing "bare metal restore of Windows machines". (Note
that these are updates from the original instructions documented in the
IBM redbook about deploying the TSM client in a Windows 2000 environment.)

Hope this helps,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/IBM@IBMUS
Internet e-mail: storman AT us.ibm DOT com

The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked.
The command line is your friend.
"Good enough" is the enemy of excellence.

"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 01/31/2005
15:21:33:

> I have a question on TSM restore on a Windows 2000(SP3) machine
> running TSM 5.2.2.
> I tried to test to see if I could successfully restore a machine
> after a backup.
> What I did was before backing up I ran NTBackup to backup the SYSTEM
> OBJECT then ran a TSM backup on the drives.
> I then rebuilt the machine with just win2K(without SP3) and installed
TSM.
> I restored the 2 data drives, when it asked to reboot I said no,
> then I ran NTBackup to restore the SYSTEM OBJECT and rebooted.
> The problem is when I rebooted and looked in the event log there
> were a few services that did not run and there were messages during
> the restore that some of the files were protected.  Also at the end
> of the restore it said to install Windows SP3 because there were
> unknown files and it may not run correctly.  I did not install the
> CD(SP3) thinking the TSM restore would restore these files.
> Is there a step I'm doing wrong or missing?
> The TSM server is AIX 5.2 with TSM 5.2.2
>
> Have a Great Day,
> Eric Jones
> > *  eric.j.jones AT lmco DOT com
> > *:   607-751-4133
> Cell : 607-972-7621