yes we did works great. Create a bootable linux cd with the tsm client
on it and a editable dsm.opt/dsm.sys. And make sure you know your
grub/mkinitrd stuff.
I have restored plenty machine to different hardware and filesystem with
success.

Just find a "create your own bootable linux cd" guide somewhere. If you
are in a hurry you can also install linux on a second harddisk or
different partition, install the tsm client in this installation and use
it to restore the orgininal system to the other partition. Change bmr
and things like that to boot from the restored linux.

regards


Otto Schakenbos
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Nick Laflamme wrote:

Is the "Disaster Recovery Strategies with Tivoli Storage Management"
redbook from November of 2002 still the definitive work on using TSM for
bare metal restorations of non-Windows clients? We've got a Linux client
with a balky HDD, so we're trying to come up to speed on this aspect of
TSM under a wee bit of pressure.

I checked the official documentation for the V5 R3 TSM clients for Unix
and Linux, but it has only the briefest of comments about bootable media
and needing a client.

Has anyone worked with modifying a from of Knoppix Linux to include a
TSM client with it?

Thanks,
Nick