we use a bootable linux cd (a customized "superrescue" cd) with a tsm client installed.. After booting you create the filesystems by hand using fdisk and mkyourfavoritefilesystem, mount, then start the restore from the tsm server. After this is done you have to install the bootloader and create a proc and dev direcotery where needed. Works also on different hardware as long a your kernel supports it. (and if it doesen't just chroot in your restored enviroment and recompile) Works like a charme for suse, redhat and gentoo sofar.
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Graham Stewart wrote:
We're using MKCDREC http://mkcdrec.sourceforge.net/ It suits our purposes (identical Dell Servers running RedHat) well.
It creates an .iso file which can be written to a bootable recovery CD containing compressed copies of the filesystems you specify. Filesystems are rebuilt by scripts run during the CD boot. Lots of flexibility, but you need to dig around and test to make sure you get everything you need and to exclude what you don't need By including the TSM client directory, TSM can take over the restore once the OS is up and running.
Graham Stewart
David E Ehresman wrote:
Anyone looking at Cristie BMR for Linux? If so, what do you think? If not, what are you doing for Linux BMR?
David Ehresman University of Louisville
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