Wow, good point, Andy: gotta have the same Service Pack level before trying a bare metal restore.
But our whitepaper doesn't address that, because we don't (yet) help with full, bare-metal DR tests. We help with the 99% of systems you DON'T have time to do a DR test on, by random-sampling the backed-up files and restoring one or two of them. Glad you found it intriguing. I don't think anybody has ever tried to do this before. So I continue to ask for horror stories about restores that failed, and why. (Keep the customer anonymous, please - some stories could be embarassing!) Come on, folks: got more? ------ Lindsay Morris Principal www.tsmworks.com 919-403-8260 lind...@tsmworks.com On Dec 12, 2008, at Dec 12, 5:53 PM, Huebner,Andy,FORT WORTH,IT wrote:
The product looks intriguing. The paper did not address my biggest problem, restoring the Windows OS. Our issue is verifying the SP level of the server prior to restore. We have had very little success restoring the OS if the target OS is a different SP level than the backup. Andy Huebner -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of lmorris99 Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 3:17 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Restore Testing stories Would you be so kind as to share your stories about why restores fail, when they do? We are working on a way to prevent such failures. (Our whitepaper is at http://www.tsmworks.com/downloads/art-whitepaper.pdf , if you're curious.) Your real-world anecdotes are helpful! Stories like: * "we found that the node had not been backed up in 3 months" * "the user's exclude list had excluded the file he needed" * "the tape volume TSM needed was missing / damaged / etc." are what we're looking for. Got some? Respond here, mail me, call me - all good. Thanks! ----------- Lindsay Morris Principal TSMworks, Inc. lind...@tsmworks.com 919-403-8260 + ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by lindsay.mor...@tsmworks.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. + ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail (including any attachments) is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not an intended recipient or an authorized representative of an intended recipient, you are prohibited from using, copying or distributing the information in this e-mail or its attachments. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies of this message and any attachments. Thank you.