Outstanding suggestion, Bill; that's exactly what we did for a customer with all Win2K servers at 12 locations around the world. We even did validated both (a) domain controller (with Active Directory), and (b) Exchange 5.5 server recovery using the NTbackup "trick" for System State backups -- I think they're still doing it that way, which totally avoids the limitations of TSM client!
Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant Tivoli Storage Manager, WinNT/2K, AIX/Unix, OS/390 San Jose, Ca (408) 257-3037 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Professional Association of Contract Employees (P.A.C.E. -- www.pacepros.com) -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bill Boyer Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2002 10:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RESTORING TO FOREIGN HARDWARE (DIFFERENT RAID CONTROLLERS) Until you get to 4.2 or higher AND the apar is fixed, you could use the NTBACKUP command to save the system state (as Microsoft calls it) to a flat file. Run this as a preschedulecmd. We had success with recoveries of systems that were pre 4.2 at one site. Then your recovery becomes, Load 2K, Restore the C: drive, then use NTBACKUP to restore the system state from the restored file. Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Don France Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 6:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RESTORING TO FOREIGN HARDWARE (DIFFERENT RAID CONTROLLERS) If your backup data was done using 4.2 or later, Wanda's recovery document (for a basic server) should work fine; you do a basic/minimal operating system install, including the device specific drivers, then fully restore boot-system drive (C:, right?), do not re-boot until System Objects are restored. BUT NOTE: There is an APAR for this issue, as well; IC34015 which has to do with restoring/not-restoring device specific keys (such as the case you describe)... "This affects 4.2 and 5.1 TSM Clients on Windows 2000 and XP." Hope this helps. Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant Tivoli Storage Manager, WinNT/2K, AIX/Unix, OS/390 San Jose, Ca (408) 257-3037 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Professional Association of Contract Employees (P.A.C.E. -- www.pacepros.com) -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Swinhoe Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 7:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RESTORING TO FOREIGN HARDWARE (DIFFERENT RAID CONTROLLERS) I have gone down the windows repair route but this takes ages due to all the re-boots to load the drivers. I only have a 72 hour SLA to recover our EDC so the timescales are tight. Regards, Michael Swinhoe Storage Management Group Zurich Financial Services (UKISA) Ltd. E-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rob Schroeder <robs@FAMOUSFOO To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TWEAR.COM> cc: Sent by: "ADSM: Subject: Re: RESTORING TO FOREIGN HARDWARE (DIFFERENT RAID Dist Stor CONTROLLERS) Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ST.EDU> 16/08/2002 15:06 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" If this is a Win2k machine, have you already done a windows repair after the restore was complete? Rob Schroeder Famous Footwear Michael Swinhoe <mike.swinhoe@UK. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZURICH.COM> cc: Sent by: "ADSM: Subject: RESTORING TO FOREIGN HARDWARE (DIFFERENT RAID CONTROLLERS) Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU> 08/16/2002 05:51 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" I have hit a brick wall and I need some help. I am currently trying to restore some Compaq servers running W2K with different Raid Controllers (3200 & 5300). I have successfully managed to recover a Compaq server with a 5300 raid controller onto a Compaq server with a 3200 raid controller. However when I try to do the opposite the server blue screens. Has anyone tried to do the same and if so which registrey keys needed changed or is the solution simpler than this? Or is there a piece of software out there that would make the process run more smoothly with out much manual intervention. Thanks as always, Mike. Regards, Michael Swinhoe Storage Management Group Zurich Financial Services (UKISA) Ltd. E-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________________________________________________ The information contained in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, copy or otherwise use it and do not disclose it to anyone else. Please notify the sender of the delivery error and then delete the message from your system. Any views or opinions expressed in this email are those of the author only. Communications will be monitored regularly to improve our service and for security and regulatory purposes. Thank you for your assistance. ___________________________________________________________________________