My suggestion would be creating an NT shell script/batch job that outputs various types of documentation about the system and spools it to a text file. For the shares, you could create a batch file that contains something simple like:
NET USE > E:\tsm_docs\shares.txt Not certain if you'll get the proper documentation if it's run from the AT service. You may need to change the service account that the Scheduler service runs under, allow the Scheduler service to interact with the desktop, and give that user the right to 'logon as a batch job'. You can also jazz it up to add date strings to the file names and keep a history of this info. We do something similar to continously/automatically document our UNIX systems and it was invaluable when we experienced a catostrophic hardware failure and had to readdress IP's to 9 NIC's, get the right Veritas volume definitions, etc. Let us know if this works for you. Thanks, Dylan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Mansfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2001 8:47 PM Subject: Re: backup the share properties on windows platform > TSM does not back up windows shares, therefore cannot restore them. > > Shares are not file/folder attributes, but live separately in the registry. > When you remove 'ABC' you get a prompt telling you that the data is shared > and may not be visible later, or some such warning. That is when the > registry info is deleted. > > This has come up before. Does anybody have a good solution for saving and > restoring the share information? > _____________________________ > William Mansfield > Senior Consultant > Solution Technology, Inc > > > > > Molly YM Pui > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > M.COM> cc: > Sent by: Subject: backup the share properties on windows platform > "ADSM: Dist > Stor Manager" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > IST.EDU> > > > 12/26/2001 > 08:56 PM > Please respond > to "ADSM: Dist > Stor Manager" > > > > > > > Dear TSMers, > > As I know, TSM should be able to backup the attributes of the files on > windows platform. However, I've tried to backup files on windows (TSM ver > 4.2.1.x) but the share properties can't be retained. > > Does anyone know if, say, i have a folder named 'ABC' and shared as 'XYZ', > I then remove 'ABC'. After a > restoration of 'ABC' to its original path, how can the network clients > still > be able to view and access it as sharename 'XYZ' ? > > Many thanks. > > Molly >
