I'd like to know if anyone has restored a client to a blank/new drive in order to fully bring back the OS. What I mean is this: If a client disk drive fails, and I need bring that client machine back up ASAP, it would be quicker if I could restore every single file that was backed up for the client. If all system/install/data files on the client were backed up, then the restore should work, right? This would be quicker than reinstalling all apps, because we have a lot of apps...
I already tried this. But it didn't work because I was trying to restore to a drive that was the currently running OS client, and I think ADSM was unable to restore files that were running processes. So now I'm going to try and restore to a second clean drive that I installed in the machine. I also installed a base OS on the second drive, rather than keeping it a clean drive with a formated filesystem of the OS type. I'm not sure if one was is better than another. I read the ADSM manual, thinking that the section called "Disaster Recovery" would be just what I'm doing, and it's not. I already know what my machine specs are, I just need to know if I can trully restore the OS. Cause everything on a computer is a file, right? If that's true then this should work, right? Anyone done this before? Thanks in advance, Alex ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Alex Lazarevich Systems Administrator Imaging Technology Group, http://www.itg.uiuc.edu Beckman Institute, http://www.beckman.uiuc.edu 405 N. Mathews, Urbana IL 61801 USA Ph: (217)244-1565 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________
