We use TSMVE to do weeekly snapshots of just 'Hard Disk 1' on our ESX virtual machines. On Windows servers, that's the 'system disk'. When a total rebuild of a Windows server is required, a restore from the system disk snapshot is done rather than a file-level and systemstate restore from TSM Extended Edition.
We have been advising admins of Windows servers not to backup systemstate to TSM Extended Edition because systemstate would be included in a snapshot restore. (It could be a week out of date.) Is our thinking correct about this, or are we overlooking something? Thank you, Keith Arbogast
