Hi Egon

> I've read that fieldguide titeld "Tivoli Storage Manager Recovery
> Techniques Using Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE)"
> (rev4). I have these questions:
> 1) If I restore a W2K server using dsmc restore image ... (for
> partition c: and d:) do I have to restore CatRoot and SystemObjects
> after first time boot of the system or should the image restore be
> "enough"? When do I have to restore CatRoot and/or systemobjects?

Restoring these items ensures that the restored system state is as current
as your most recent backup.

> 2.) What is the restore of CatRoot actually for?

CatRoot contains the System File Protection catalog, which is used by the
operating system to ensure your operating system files remain in a
consistent state. CatRoot needs to be restored before the system object in
order to ensure that the operating system does not "throw away" the
protected system files that TSM restores as part of the system object.

> 3.) Do I have to restore systemobjects/CatRoot when -incremental -
> deletefiles is run?

Yes.

> 4.) Recently I restored a box using the described method (plus -
> deletefiles -incremental, plus systemobject, plus CatRoot) -
> Unfortunately the system is configured to autologon. During startup
> I disabled autologin using the SHIFT key, restored systemobject and
> CatRoot. After that I rebooted the box again. Strangely the system
> created a new profile for that user which had autologon configured
> (profilename <username.systemname>). Anybody knows why that happened?

It might have been that when the system object, which includes the
registry, was restored, the original profile for the user account was
restored with the registry.

Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
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