Re: BMR scripts
Hi, all, I also would likes to know if anyone has BMR for Netware servers. I couldn't find doc from anywhere. Bad thing is that Netware doesn't support USB port for local backupset restore ( for example, DVD ROM). They support SCSI though. I wonder what would be the portable media drive of choice for Netware. I was thinking external DVD ROM for Windows. Once I install the proper driver, the restore from backupset is going to be fast for Windows servers. Thanks for your input! Jin Bae Chi (Gus) System Admin/Tivoli Data Center 614-287-2496/5922 614-287-5488 Fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/26/02 02:57PM >>> Has anyone tried to script a BMR solution for NT or AIX using tsm. Everyone keeps saying the Bare Metal Restore is just a bunch of scripts that access TSM but has anyone tried create those scripts themselves. Thanks ***EMAIL DISCLAIMER*** This email and any files transmitted with it may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of th individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient or the individual responsible for delivering the e-mail to the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please delete it and notify the sender or contact Health Information Management 312.996.3941.
Re: BMR scripts
Hi, I did perfect a method on my AIX SP cluster, but I havent visited it for a while. 1. Use NIM to build a new rootvg, with TSM installed. ( it could be a tape image or rebuild from install media in your case) 2. Use alt_disk_install functionality to create an alternate rootvg 3. Use TSM to restore latest versions of / /var /usr etc to alternate filesystems 4. Boot from alternate filesystem 5. in the SP world, run a CUSTOMIZE on the node to get the ODM updated with node-specific SP stuff. Its not really all that difficult. The only bit that threw me was getting the SP Stuff to work. Regards Steve Harris AIX and TSM Admin >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 27/09/2002 4:57:27 >>> Has anyone tried to script a BMR solution for NT or AIX using tsm. Everyone keeps saying the Bare Metal Restore is just a bunch of scripts that access TSM but has anyone tried create those scripts themselves. Thanks ***EMAIL DISCLAIMER*** This email and any files transmitted with it may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of th individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient or the individual responsible for delivering the e-mail to the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please delete it and notify the sender or contact Health Information Management 312.996.3941. ** This e-mail, including any attachments sent with it, is confidential and for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). This confidentiality is not waived or lost if you receive it and you are not the intended recipient(s), or if it is transmitted/ received in error. Any unauthorised use, alteration, disclosure, distribution or review of this e-mail is prohibited. It may be subject to a statutory duty of confidentiality if it relates to health service matters. If you are not the intended recipient(s), or if you have received this e-mail in error, you are asked to immediately notify the sender by telephone or by return e-mail. You should also delete this e-mail message and destroy any hard copies produced. **
Re: BMR scripts
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dearman, Richard > Has anyone tried to script a BMR solution for NT or AIX using > tsm. Everyone > keeps saying the Bare Metal Restore is just a bunch of scripts that access > TSM but has anyone tried create those scripts themselves. BMR procedures for AIX are a no-brainer. Boot from installation media, restore your bootable mksysb backup image to get rootvg back, recreate the volume groups and filesystems, install the TSM client if it wasn't installed in rootvg, and restore all non-rootvg files. Easy, peezy. The problem with scripting a BMR procedure for Windows is that Windows simply lacks the required abilities. True BMR has the following requirements: 1. The OS must support booting from a network-attached image. NT cannot do this, and although I've been told Win2K will do it, I've never met anyone who has been able to make it work. 2. The OS must support the ability to insert missing drivers from local (or remote) installation media; this ability is vital for restoration to dissimilar hardware. (For instance, if the installation image lacks a driver for the NIC or SCSI adapter in the target box, it must be able to fetch that driver from installation media.) Windows completely lacks this ability during OS installation, except for SCSI-based RAID controllers. 3. The OS must support the ability to either overwrite hot (i.e., open) files, or support the ability to copy cold restored files to a hot location during a reboot. Windows can't do that. The application Bare Metal Restore (now published by Veritas, formerly published by The Kernel Group) found a handful of workarounds in order to get BMR to work with Windows. What I discovered in my work with BMR is that restores were absolutely breath-taking--as long as that restore is done in carefully controlled environments to exactly the same hardware. In the real world, on the two occasions that I witnessed, BMR failed to delivery despite the presence of a TKG engineer flown in to assist. We just couldn't get it to work. -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Certified TSM consultant Certified AIX system engineer MCSE
