Greetings to all. I have questions about creating versions of PXE boot iso's. I successfully created an is on for bare metal restore of an x64 Win 2012 VM hosted server. Now I need to restore two other servers, both Win 2008 R2 X64 VMs. They have different baclient versions installed; one is 6.4.2 (EoL, we know), while the other is 7.1.6.4. I have been trying to rtfm to determine if I can make one PXE iso for both servers, at 7.1.6.5 for example, because I have a bunch of those too.
Making the PXE iso was low on my list of fun stuff to do. I know that my x86 2008 servers will need a different iso, and my Win 2008 non R2 probably another, same for Win 2016, but I want to make as few as necessary. I have 7.1.x.x, 7.1.8.x, 8.1.0.x, 8.1.2, and 8.1.4. also. I get that the baclient version on the PXE iso needs to be >= the vrl of the baclient used to back up files, but how far back can I expect to go from a particular uplevel version on a matching OS? Point me to what to read. I have read and re-read the best practices guide for recovering Win Server 2012 and Windows 8. I have not read the earlier doc pertaining to 2008...yet. What else. They all back up to SP 7.1.8.0 on AIX. ...well, most do, some backup to another AIX server running a 6.x TSM server version. Again, we know that is out of support. It is what we have to work with for now. I am not so worried about that population, they are rather stable. So, how much work do I have ahead? I miss when I could call Wanda with my questions! George Huebschman
