This is a test build so we installed the same level agent on the victim server 
as we used with WinPE.  We used 5.5.2.1 because the doc we had said to use 
5.5.x.
We will test the backup today to make sure it is good.
We are PIXI booting the server to WinPE then running TSM from a mapped drive.  
The idea is to recover a system without touching it and to do it faster than 
installing the OS first.  Since we have $Zero for this we have to do it with 
tools we have.

Andy Huebner

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Steven Harris
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 12:51 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] WinPE File Level restore

I had this problem once too.  Ensure that your recovery CD is at the
same level as the installed client.


On 18/01/2011 5:35 AM, Robert Talda wrote:
> Andy:
>    It has been awhile, so the details are somewhat hazy, but our Windows
> Sys Admins used to do restore Win 2003 in this manner as part of BMR
> exercises on a regular basis on a test system.  Generally it worked - but
> the one time it failed, it was because the corruption existed in the
> registry when the registry was backed up, so TSM faithfully restored the
> corrupted registry.  Sadly, this was the one time the BMR was attempted on
> a production system.  Quite a mess at  the time.
>
>    I don't know of any means of verifying registry corruption, but would
> recommend checking for that as best you can before creating the backup.
>
>    HTH,
> Bob T
> EZ-Backup Team
> Cornell University
>
> On 1/14/11 6:19 PM, "Huebner,Andy,FORT WORTH,IT"
> <Andy.Huebner AT ALCONLABS DOT COM>  wrote:
>
>> We are testing how to restore Windows 2003 by booting WinPE and running
>> the TSM client.  We need to be able to do a system restore from a file
>> level backup.
>> We have the document "Tivoli Storage Manager Recovery Techniques
>> Using Windows Pre-installation Environment
>> (Windows PE)" version 2.5 and we have followed the instructions.
>> Everything worked except the system failed to boot with a corrupt
>> registry message.
>> Has anyone successfully done a WinPE restore without using an image
>> backup?
>>
>> TSM server 5.4.5.0
>> TSM agent 5.5.2.1

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