Nghiatd The System Preparation Tool (Sysprep) is a Windows tool to automate the successful deployment of Microsoft Windows. Sysprep is a tool that is designed for system administrators, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), and others who must automatically deploy the Windows operating system on multiple computers. After you perform the initial setup steps on a single computer, you can run the Sysprep tool to prepare the sample computer for cloning or use it as a backup on static machines.
Here you can learn more about sysprep, but basicly it is just a microsoft thing that has nothing what so ever to do with TSM. http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/planning/incremental/sysprep11.asp when you talk about capacity of system drive is that the assigend capacity or the data that you are using?. at least if you where to enter the command prompt and run this command from the root "c:\" dir /S you should see how mutch data you have acculy in use on your system. and that data should be somewhere around the bytes transfered from the tsm report. If not, then your are missing a exclude somewhere either in the dsm.opt file or in the client options sets. You might alsow be getting failed backups on some files. But my guess it that this is not your problem. you might be geting errors on some dll that are in use when you are running backups, either way there is no way to tell unless we see more details on the error message you recive when you try to open office. Hope this helps Kær kveðja / Best regards, Pétur Eyþórsson · Tæknilegur ráðgjafi eServer & Storage · Tivoli Advanced Storage Solutons Techical Expert · MCSE · SNIA Professional · SNIA FC-SAN Practitioner · IBM C AIX S · TSM CP · TSRM CP · TASS DP · IBM SAN P Sími/tel: +354 569-7700 · GSM: +354 863-0560 www.nyherji.is nghiatd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]> 17.08.2005 02:43 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]> To [email protected] cc Subject Re: [ADSM-L] Image backup Thank for your help, I have some questions to you >>>>>if you plan on using this i do not recomend useing it on mission critical machines, this is good for low profile machines, desktop machines and static servers. but then again sysprep is better in solving that. What is SYSPREP ? I also implement BMR as "Disaster Rescovery Strategies" redbook guide. Server : TSM 5.3 server Client : TSM 5.3, OS : Win2k, database SQL2000, and some apllication I full backup system drive (C:) and the other drives. Although, capacity of system drive is 4.8 GB, but when I full backup, I receive a report : "Byte tranferred : 3.7 GB". I only exclude some files or directories as Temporary Internet Files, Recycled, Recycler. When I finish restoring process, I boot machine again and start Microsoft Office or Outlook, I always receive a requirement installing Office or Outlook. Therefore, I think the error causes above backup process. Nghiatd, -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pétur Eyþórsson Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 9:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Image backup Nghiatd. you can take a phicial drive on annother machine an plug it in with a running system, you do not need to format it. just plug it in and make the OS see the logical device. then you can restore the image on that device, then you need to put that drive phisically on the failed machine, and make the machine boot on that device. Or you can just have 2 logical partitions on your machine one that you boot up and then you restore the image on the logical partition that is not in use by the OS. after that you need to modify the startup sequence to boot from the restored partition. Be Warned! the system image may not be consistent across components (such as Active Directory). Some of these components can be configured to use different volumes where parts are installed on the system drive and others to non-system volumes. but basicly there is NO simple BMR on Win2k or Win2003 for that matter, if you plan on using this i do not recomend useing it on mission critical machines, this is good for low profile machines, desktop machines and static servers. but then again sysprep is better in solving that. hope this helps. Kær kveðja / Best regards, Pétur Eyþórsson · Tæknilegur ráðgjafi eServer & Storage · Tivoli Advanced Storage Solutons Professional · MCSE · SNIA Professional · SNIA FC-SAN Practitioner · IBM C AIX S · TSM CP · TSRM CP · TASS DP · IBM SAN P Sími/tel: +354 569-7700 · GSM: +354 863-0560 www.nyherji.is nghiatd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]> 16.08.2005 04:43 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]> To [email protected] cc Subject [ADSM-L] Image backup Hi all, I want to implement BMR for Win2K. I backup C:\ drive ( system dirve) with image type. Howerver, TSM help wrote : "If you created an image of the system drive, you cannot restore the image to the same location because the client cannot have an exclusive lock of the system drive." Therefore, If I want restore system drive with image backup, I have to restore image backup system to other location and copy them to the original location. Can I do that ? Thank a lot, Nghiatd
