Re: Will TSM ever support BMR for windows systems?
2006-12-06 11:04:18
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Schaub, Steve
>Well, it's also a big pain in the tush for me to explain to mgmt why
I'm
>budgeting for a BMR tool for our 600 Windows servers even though we
>already hand over a boatload of $$ to Tivoli for a backup product,
>because I have to have something I can depend on to perform dissimilar
>hardware restores.
I've talked about this on this list more than a few times, but I'll
repeat it for our new folks:
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You can use TSM to perform bare-metal restores of Windows machines, to
similar and to dissimilar hardware.
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It is a pretty straight-forward process for identical hardware, and
dissimilar hardware merely requires a little file-shuffling during the
rebuild process. I've performed BMR using nothing but a modified Windows
boot CD, nLite <http://www.nliteos.com/> (donate to those folks--their
code's great!) and a copy of the TSM client code.
>I just don't think it could be that difficult for Tivoli to come up
with
>a boot cd like they use for ServerGuide that is "TSM aware" and capable
>of hardware detection.
It's not Tivoli's go to create CDs to facilitate alternate-boot disks
for various OSs. IBM already has that process down cold for AIX.
Similarly, Sun for Solaris and HP for HP-UX. For Windows, Microsoft
developed WinPE, and BartPE is out there for Windows as well.
It can be done, folks. It's not that hard.
--
Mark Stapleton (mark.s AT evolvingsol DOT com)
Senior TSM consultant
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