I noticed that Richard Sims says on his TSM facts page (a most excellent site - http://people.bu.edu/rbs/ADSM.QuickFacts) that Bare Metal Restore is grudgingly performed by TSM. If it's so difficult to do, could anyone tell me what the best practice is for backing up/restoring a complete Win 2000 Server? My idea is this:
1) Image backup (with Norton Ghost, for example) of the C drive. Could be saved onto CDROM for example. 2) TSM backup of all other (i.e. data) drives. A restore would then be quite straightforward: 1) Restore from the Ghost image. 2) TSM restore of the data drives. I noticed that TSM now provides for backup of Windows system objects. Do most people back these up? I personally don't (at the moment at least). Does anyone have any views on whether or not it's a good idea to back up system objects? I think that making a Ghost image kind of eliminates the need. Also, has anyone any experience of using ASR on Win 2003? If so, is it easier to use/better than BMR? Does ASR exist for other Windows versions? That was a lot of questions! Grateful for any feedback Kevin