Hi. What you need to know if you are going to test a Disaster Recovery. Re-installation: If you going to re-installation the OS you need to know on which Service Pack and hot fix level that machine is on and which Application SP/Hot Fix level its runs on. Because you need to install everything in the same level it's was before and join the domain before the restore if you want the result to be ok. But in this case your application can get other issues that you haven't see before. And another things who happenings if you don't have the system in the same level as before is that the system shows you got the correct version of hot fixes ans Service pack but it doesn't in file level.
Image/BMR Tools: If you going to use images technology or another BMR tool you need to know if the Backup can backup open files another wise you need to bring down the system and make a offline image. When you restore the images you need to boot up on a temporary OS in the memory on another hard disk, if you don't do that you can't over write all files and you will got a corrupt system. If you want to try the IBM TSM official BMR tool you can download a evolution from Cristie Data Products Ltd website (www.cristie.com) One thing who is missing in the most BMR tools is that if you backing up old server and when you going to restore to the new hardware then is the Disk controller been change and the image/backup you recover doesn't have install that new disk controller driver and when Windows start up you got a blue screen. Cristie Bare Machine Recovery has a solution for that who works... Best Regards Christian Svensson -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- Fr�n: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] F�r Mol, ATM Skickat: den 3 september 2004 21:01 Till: [EMAIL PROTECTED] �mne: Re: Windows 2000 server hard disk crash Concerning BMR: There's a way to do it by means of BartPE bootable CD (from NU2 on the web). This gives you a Windows pre-boot environment. Get the network running and start the BAclient from a networkshare (if you throw the \system32 dll's in the \baclient directory it will run; and this gives flexibility in case of baclient updates/patches). If you wish, you can start the BAclient with the -optfile option to a specific optionfile. Or you can add the client to your bootable BartPE image. Than all you've got to do is restore (f.i. an image restore). Good luck Ton Mol Corus Steel > -----Original Message----- > From: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@CORUS On > Behalf Of Luc Beaudoin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, 03 September 2004 19:59 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Windows 2000 server hard disk crash > > Hi, > > I would like to crash the server (OS and data) > The problem I have is that If a server crash ... the only way to put it > back up is to change disk ... re-install windows .. install TSM client ... > restore windows and files by overwriting all files... > It a long process... > I heard of the bare metal/machine recovery ... but I dont know if it's > good, fast to restore and most of all how does it work ... > > Any documentations ... > or any step by step procedure ... > > thanks > > > > > > > "Mark D. > Rodriguez" To: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: > COM> Subject: Re: Windows 2000 > server hard disk crash > Sent by: "ADSM: > Dist Stor > Manager" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > .EDU> > > > 09/03/2004 01:46 > PM > Please respond to > "ADSM: Dist Stor > Manager" > > > > > > > Luc Beaudoin wrote: > > >Hi all > > > >I have to run some tests in case of a crash ... > >I am running backups (only incr) of that server(winn 2000) for the past > >week, I will crash the disk.. and put a new one in the server ... > > > >What is the best or fastest way to bring the server back up from scratch > >... > > > >thanks > > > >Luc > > > > > > > Luc, > > We will need a little more info. The disk you are going to "crash", is > it the OS drive, non-OS but has installed applications or a data only > drive. This will make a great deal of difference as to how you attack > this problem. Also, when you say bring it up from scratch do you mean > from no OS at all. We generally cal the a BMR (bare metal/machine > recovery). Please let us know and we will try to help you out. > > -- > Regards, > Mark D. Rodriguez > President MDR Consulting, Inc. > > ========================================================================== > ===== > > MDR Consulting > The very best in Technical Training and Consulting. > IBM Advanced Business Partner > SAIR Linux and GNU Authorized Center for Education > IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert, CATE > AIX Support and Performance Tuning, RS6000 SP, TSM/ADSM and Linux > Red Hat Certified Engineer, RHCE > ========================================================================== > =====
