Are you talking about Windows clients? If so, go to www.coderelief.com, look in the SCRIPTS depot under TSM Scripts, the Disaster Recovery thread. I've posted procedures for restoring WinNT and Win2K when the OS has failed (on this list we generally call that a "bare metal" restore).
You are right that TSM on WinNT can't restore the files that are in use, but the posted procedures explain how to get around that. TSM on Win2K can (by marking the file for "replace on boot"). The posted doc should help... -----Original Message----- From: Alexander Lazarevich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 9:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: restoring client as a full OS install? 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] _________________________________________________
