You'll hear, I'm sure from our friends and colleagues on this list, that this is not one of the functions of TSM. Sure, you can back up all the files and assume you'd get a working system back, but you can't guarantee it.
TKG's bare metal restore tool (BMR) is probably what you are looking for to keep the whole thing as simple as possible at restore time. Disaster recovery manager is more focused on bringing back TSM servers from sudden death, although you can include client systems and information such as what recovery media you'd use to install the OS. Let's see what the next few threads say.. -----Original Message----- From: Alexander Lazarevich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 01 November 2001 14:42 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] _________________________________________________ http://www.phoenixitgroup.com ******************Internet Email Confidentiality Footer******************* Phoenix IT Group Limited is registered in England and Wales under company number 3476115. Registered Office: Technology House, Hunsbury Hill Avenue, Northampton, NN4 8QS Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message that do not relate to the official business of our firm shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by it. No contracts may be concluded on behalf of our firm by means of email communications. Confidentiality: Confidential information may be contained in this message. If you are not the recipient indicated (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), you may not take any action based on it, nor should you copy or show this to anyone; please reply to this email and highlight the error to the sender, then delete the message from your system. Monitoring of Messages: Please note that we reserve the right to monitor and intercept emails sent and received on our network. Warning: Internet email is not 100% secure. We ask you to understand and observe this lack of security when emailing us. We do not accept responsibility for changes made to this message after it was sent Viruses: Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and any attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure they are actually virus free.
