I've been performing BMR's for the last month on a set of servers, and
have come up with the following recommendations:

1)      ASR on windows 2k3 is good. it removes the need for exactly
      matching disks on the target, and is quite quick.

2)    Using (bart)PE, I've used backup image and restore image to 
      simulate recovery to new hardware.  very problematic, and
      prone to significant problems relating to disk offset mismatches.
      on EXACTLY like for like hardware (ie, the server it came from)
      it always works perfectly.

        BTW, with this, I tested offline image backups and online 
      image backup with LV snapshot support.  Both work equally
      well, hence no outage is required to complete the image backup.

While (2) seems good, you have to have images lying around, and this
can be costly in terms of TSM storage space.

Ibm publish a technote (techtips0102 on www.redbooks.ibm.com) which 
describes the BMR procedure for windows 2000 and windows NT.  I can
vouch the windows 2000 method described works extremely well, and I
have had better success with it than even with windows 2k3 ASR.

PS, I've used 5.3.0.5 and 5.3.0.8 for backup and recovery testing..


Cheers.
Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: TSM_User [mailto:tsm_user AT YAHOO DOT COM] 
Sent: Wednesday, 15 June 2005 10:21 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Bare Metal Restore for Windows 2003 / Disaster
recovery of Windows 2003

I've tested all the options.  I really like the on-line image backup and
the off-line image restore with WinPE.  Note if you se a Windows 2003
built WinPE cd you must be at TSM client V5.3.0.5 or later.

K.

David Browne <dbrowne AT HUMANA DOT COM> wrote:
"Bare Metal Restore for Windows 2003"

We are trying to figure out the best way to do a bare metal restore of
Win2003.

Does anyone recommend using ASR, PE, Cristie or something else?



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