Alex, As far as I know, TKG's Bare Metal Restore is the only product (commercial or otherwise) to restore an NT, 2000, AIX, Solaris, or HP UX machine from bare metal. It is also a fully automated restore, using only the data in TSM to restore the system. The web link is http://www.tkg.com/bmr/tsm.
Hope that helps. Alexander Lazarevich wrote: >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] >_________________________________________________ > > -- Ray Schafer The Kernel Group www.tkg.com Sr. Sales Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 512 433 3300
