I would use that same BartPE disk to determine if you can read the newly restored disk after the restore. If so, I would attempt to fix the boot sector as you mentioned below by booting a Windows Server 2008 R2 CD and running through the various options to fix the boot sector.
Good luck. If you can, please share the BartPE batch files you used for setting up the TSM environment to run from BartPE. I'm very interested in trying TSM from BartPE myself. Ray -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Stephan Boldt Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 11:28 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Restoring an server-image with BartPE Hello everybody, I tried restoring a windows 2008 R2 server image (c: partition) and ran into a problem. Here's what I did (according to the field guide "TSM Recovery Techniques using Win PE Environment"): - Created Image Backup of c: partition with VSS (ESX vSphere 4.0 VM) - Did daily incremental filesystem backups of the same host - created a new VM with a disk larger than the source disk - booted VM with BartPE CD (pressed F6 while starting and added VMware LSI driver) - created partition with diskpart (full disk) - set it the active partition - assigned drive letter c: to that partition - mapped network drive where the tsm installation files are located (TSM 6.2) - run dsmc-pe.cmd to set up the TSM Client environment - set up the dsm.opt with server and client name - restored the image with "dsm restore image \\backupmachineneame\c$ c: -asrmode=yes -noprompt -incremental -deletefiles" The restore of the image completed without errors. The incremental filesystem backups were also applied successfully. Next step in the field guide is to restart the server with the restored OS. But everything I see when rebooting is a blinking cursor in the upper left corner. Has anyone of you any idea what could be the cause? Does the image restore also restore the bootsector? May that be the cause? Any Idea how to solve that? Thanks in advance for any hint! kind regards, Stephan CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email and any attachments are for the exclusive and confidential use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, distribute or take action in reliance upon this message. If you have received this in error, please notify us immediately by return email and promptly delete this message and its attachments from your computer system. We do not waive attorney-client or work product privilege by the transmission of this message.