Hello Francisco, "Best practice" for creating and using a WinPE-based image is described here:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/x/EwgFD this information supersedes the formal Windows Backup-Archive Client manual. For Windows 2008 (and Windows 2008 R2, Vista, or 7), you need to create only one image per processor architecture in your environment. This is unlike ASR for Windows 2003, where you needed to create media for each Windows 2003 (or XP) system. There is no tightly-coupled dependency between the WinPE image and the system that needs recovery. So assuming that you have a good system state backup of a system, you can create the WinPE boot media at any time, independent of the system that needs recovery. The TSM version on the WinPE CD should be at the same or higher level as the version of TSM used to back up the system that needs recovery. For example, if you are recovering a system that was backed up with the 6.3 client, you cannot use a WinPE image that contains the 6.2 client. However, it is strongly recommended that you regularly test recovery, rather than wait for a true emergency to build and test the recovery media. Best regards, Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Product Development Level 3 Team Lead Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Hartford/IBM@IBMUS Internet e-mail: [email protected] IBM Tivoli Storage Manager support web page: http://www.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/Overview/Software/Tivoli/Tivoli_Storage_Manager "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]> wrote on 2012-05-31 05:30:24: > From: Francisco Molero <[email protected]> > To: [email protected], > Date: 2012-05-31 05:32 > Subject: ASR BMR W2008 > Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]> > > Hello Colleagues, > > in previous versions of TSM, we created a ASR boot image then we > started the windows OS from ASR and we installed the OS and after > that we restored the whole Windows machine. Now the process > recommends to create a WindowsPE image, I am not sure if I have to > create one winPE image per server and if I can create it when the > server is down from other machine. > > Any ideas ?? > > > regards , Fran. >
