Re: bare metal restore for NT...
Walker, Thomas wrote: Also in the FAQ, I noticed that is does not *yet* support restoring to dissimiliar hardware. Considering that a true Disaster Recovery will probably take place in slightly different systems, I find it a little odd the BMR still doesn't support that yet. The hardest thing to do is restore NT machines because it's impossible to get an exact copy of the hardware at the DR site. So restoring the registry is useless. BMR looks promising, but only for NT. Mksysb's are still very useful and less of a hassle than setting up a BMR boot server. Our FAQ needs to be updated. The first phase of dissmililar machine restore is done. Release 3.1 is out and will support restore to dissimilar disks. This is phase one. More to come. I would like to point out that TKG's BMR is the only product that can do this on AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, and NT. I have set up many BMR Boot Servers. In my opinion, it is just as easy as doing a mksysb, but it is a one time effort. Mksysb's have to be done over and over again. begin:vcard n:Schafer;Ray tel;cell:+1 (512) 426-3188 tel;fax:+1 (512) 433-3200 tel;work:+1 (512) 433-3345 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.tkg.com org:The Kernel Group;Sales and Services version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Senior Sales Engineer adr;quoted-printable:;;1250 South Capital of Texas Highway=0D=0ABldg 3, Ste. 601;Austin;TX;78746;United States fn:Ray Schafer end:vcard
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Stephen A. Cochran wrote: Someone pointed TKG's product out a few months ago to me, and I looked at their site. If you read the FAQ carefully, you'll see that you will need one server for every type of system you need to restore. So if want BMR capability for both Solaris, AIX, and NT, then you'll need a Solaris, AIX, and NT server for their product to work. Each of those servers will need to run the BMR File Server and BMR Netboot Server.From the sound of it, I worry that if you had some servers running Solaris 6 and some Solaris 7, that you might need a different File/Boot server for each of those. The BMR File and Boot Servers do not have to be dedicated servers. They can be doing work while they are sitting there waiting to serve up boot images or satisfy NFS requests. A lot can change in a few months. Now, with the 3.1 release, BMR allows you to create CD's that can be used in place of File Servers and Boot Servers. This also allows you to circumvent the use of bootp, bootparams, tftp, and NFS during a TKG Bare Metal Restore if you desire. After taking over the TSM admin for our site, I've been looking in to BMR options. The best I've come up with so far is the following: I bought some big bit buckets for inside the TSM (RS6000 h50 AIX) server. Nothing too fast, just decent. For my AIX servers, I'm running makesysb and dumping the data onto a NFS share. If you are using TSM, wouldn't it be nice to just back everything up to TSM and then use the data in TSM to restore the machine? BMR allows you to do that. The mksysb's back up data that is also being backed up (more efficiently) by TSM. For Solaris and Linux, I'm using the hostdump.sh script from backupcentral.com (run by the Orielly backup book author) to dump to the NFS share. I manually dump the OS only after the change log is modified (we keep a change log on the boot system so that any admin that makes a change logs it in case there are problems). This way it's fairly automated. I also run it manually before/after patching or upgrading. I also run SysAudit and Sysinfo every night and dump those locally and to the same NFS share, so I have up to date info on the system in case I loose the disk configurations. TKG's BMR will capture the machine configuration using a fully automated process. To restore, I use the install CD to boot, get the networking up and running, mount the NFS share, and restore. I'm still rolling this out, but so far it's worked well. I restored a solaris 7 server as a test, and it was flawless. If you use Veritas Volume Manager on Solaris, how would you restore the machine with this methodology? It is a very manual process, but BMR handles it with no extra steps or reboots. begin:vcard n:Schafer;Ray tel;cell:+1 (512) 426-3188 tel;fax:+1 (512) 433-3200 tel;work:+1 (512) 433-3345 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.tkg.com org:The Kernel Group;Sales and Services version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Senior Sales Engineer adr;quoted-printable:;;1250 South Capital of Texas Highway=0D=0ABldg 3, Ste. 601;Austin;TX;78746;United States fn:Ray Schafer end:vcard
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Ray, Do you have some idea when you will have BRM that will work when the TSM server is an NT server ? Mike -Original Message- From: Ray Schafer [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: â îàé 22 2001 15:13 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: bare metal restore for NT... Thank you, Jack. While we do offer BMR, The Kernel Group is an independent software vendor that has numerous relationships with IBM/Tivoli. In this particular case, our Bare Metal Restore product is re-marketed by IBM/Tivoli to extend the recovery capabilities TSM currently has with the system recovery that we provide. Palmadesso Jack wrote: You may want to look at the Kernel Groups Bare Metal Recovery tool. We are planning on bringing them in here. Supposedly its a one button recovery that interacts with TSM. By the way the Kernel Group is part of IBM. Jack -Original Message- From: Zosimo Noriega (ADNOC IST) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 6:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: bare metal restore for NT... I'm looking a tool or agent that i can use for complete disaster recovery for NT. I heard this tool, can you please provide me enough information. thanks a lot. Zosi Noriega ADNOC P.O. Box 898 AUH - AUE File: Card for Ray Schafer
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The wording is a bit hard to understand but I believe that the BMR server itself is a separate server and requires Unix. BMR does not care what the TSM server is itself. Check the FAQ out on their site. http://www.tkg.com/bmr/tsm This looks promising! -Original Message- From: Mike Glassman - Admin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 10:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: bare metal restore for NT... Ray, Do you have some idea when you will have BRM that will work when the TSM server is an NT server ? Mike -Original Message- From: Ray Schafer [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: â îàé 22 2001 15:13 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: bare metal restore for NT... Thank you, Jack. While we do offer BMR, The Kernel Group is an independent software vendor that has numerous relationships with IBM/Tivoli. In this particular case, our Bare Metal Restore product is re-marketed by IBM/Tivoli to extend the recovery capabilities TSM currently has with the system recovery that we provide. Palmadesso Jack wrote: You may want to look at the Kernel Groups Bare Metal Recovery tool. We are planning on bringing them in here. Supposedly its a one button recovery that interacts with TSM. By the way the Kernel Group is part of IBM. Jack -Original Message- From: Zosimo Noriega (ADNOC IST) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 6:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: bare metal restore for NT... I'm looking a tool or agent that i can use for complete disaster recovery for NT. I heard this tool, can you please provide me enough information. thanks a lot. Zosi Noriega ADNOC P.O. Box 898 AUH - AUE File: Card for Ray Schafer
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I haven't actually purchased the product yet, but I've been looking at it. I've been told that BMR can run on the same server as TSM, as long as it's a Unix server. Good Luck! Thank you, Jeff Caffey Enterprise Systems Programmer (AIX Storage Administrator) Pier 1 imports, Inc. - Information Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: (817) 252-6222 Fax: (817) 252-7299 -Original Message- From: Palmadesso Jack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 8:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: bare metal restore for NT... The wording is a bit hard to understand but I believe that the BMR server itself is a separate server and requires Unix. BMR does not care what the TSM server is itself. Check the FAQ out on their site. http://www.tkg.com/bmr/tsm This looks promising! -Original Message- From: Mike Glassman - Admin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 10:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: bare metal restore for NT... Ray, Do you have some idea when you will have BRM that will work when the TSM server is an NT server ? Mike -Original Message- From: Ray Schafer [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: â îàé 22 2001 15:13 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: bare metal restore for NT... Thank you, Jack. While we do offer BMR, The Kernel Group is an independent software vendor that has numerous relationships with IBM/Tivoli. In this particular case, our Bare Metal Restore product is re-marketed by IBM/Tivoli to extend the recovery capabilities TSM currently has with the system recovery that we provide. Palmadesso Jack wrote: You may want to look at the Kernel Groups Bare Metal Recovery tool. We are planning on bringing them in here. Supposedly its a one button recovery that interacts with TSM. By the way the Kernel Group is part of IBM. Jack -Original Message- From: Zosimo Noriega (ADNOC IST) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 6:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: bare metal restore for NT... I'm looking a tool or agent that i can use for complete disaster recovery for NT. I heard this tool, can you please provide me enough information. thanks a lot. Zosi Noriega ADNOC P.O. Box 898 AUH - AUE File: Card for Ray Schafer
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Yes, so I understood, but with the amount of money we have already invested in the system, and with the fact that our dealers and integrators forgot to explain this issue untill yesterday (3 months after the initiall installation etc), I cannot now go and explain that I need a second server for BMR, as much as I would like to. So I am stuck. Mike -Original Message- From: Palmadesso Jack [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: â îàé 22 2001 15:54 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: bare metal restore for NT... The wording is a bit hard to understand but I believe that the BMR server itself is a separate server and requires Unix. BMR does not care what the TSM server is itself. Check the FAQ out on their site. http://www.tkg.com/bmr/tsm This looks promising! -Original Message- From: Mike Glassman - Admin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 10:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: bare metal restore for NT... Ray, Do you have some idea when you will have BRM that will work when the TSM server is an NT server ? Mike -Original Message- From: Ray Schafer [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: â îàé 22 2001 15:13 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: bare metal restore for NT... Thank you, Jack. While we do offer BMR, The Kernel Group is an independent software vendor that has numerous relationships with IBM/Tivoli. In this particular case, our Bare Metal Restore product is re-marketed by IBM/Tivoli to extend the recovery capabilities TSM currently has with the system recovery that we provide. Palmadesso Jack wrote: You may want to look at the Kernel Groups Bare Metal Recovery tool. We are planning on bringing them in here. Supposedly its a one button recovery that interacts with TSM. By the way the Kernel Group is part of IBM. Jack -Original Message- From: Zosimo Noriega (ADNOC IST) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 6:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: bare metal restore for NT... I'm looking a tool or agent that i can use for complete disaster recovery for NT. I heard this tool, can you please provide me enough information. thanks a lot. Zosi Noriega ADNOC P.O. Box 898 AUH - AUE File: Card for Ray Schafer
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If you are speaking about budgets then I hear you. Then again I am wondering what the minimum requirements are. Sun makes these new machines called Blades. Some are as cheap as 1300usd and perform similar an Ultra60. We are trying a few of them out now. That wouldn't be such a large investment. Otherwise there is always next years budget. -Original Message- From: Mike Glassman - Admin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 11:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: bare metal restore for NT... Yes, so I understood, but with the amount of money we have already invested in the system, and with the fact that our dealers and integrators forgot to explain this issue untill yesterday (3 months after the initiall installation etc), I cannot now go and explain that I need a second server for BMR, as much as I would like to. So I am stuck. Mike -Original Message- From: Palmadesso Jack [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: â îàé 22 2001 15:54 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: bare metal restore for NT... The wording is a bit hard to understand but I believe that the BMR server itself is a separate server and requires Unix. BMR does not care what the TSM server is itself. Check the FAQ out on their site. http://www.tkg.com/bmr/tsm This looks promising! -Original Message- From: Mike Glassman - Admin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 10:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: bare metal restore for NT... Ray, Do you have some idea when you will have BRM that will work when the TSM server is an NT server ? Mike -Original Message- From: Ray Schafer [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: â îàé 22 2001 15:13 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: bare metal restore for NT... Thank you, Jack. While we do offer BMR, The Kernel Group is an independent software vendor that has numerous relationships with IBM/Tivoli. In this particular case, our Bare Metal Restore product is re-marketed by IBM/Tivoli to extend the recovery capabilities TSM currently has with the system recovery that we provide. Palmadesso Jack wrote: You may want to look at the Kernel Groups Bare Metal Recovery tool. We are planning on bringing them in here. Supposedly its a one button recovery that interacts with TSM. By the way the Kernel Group is part of IBM. Jack -Original Message- From: Zosimo Noriega (ADNOC IST) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 6:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: bare metal restore for NT... I'm looking a tool or agent that i can use for complete disaster recovery for NT. I heard this tool, can you please provide me enough information. thanks a lot. Zosi Noriega ADNOC P.O. Box 898 AUH - AUE File: Card for Ray Schafer
Re: bare metal restore for NT...
Someone pointed TKG's product out a few months ago to me, and I looked at their site. If you read the FAQ carefully, you'll see that you will need one server for every type of system you need to restore. So if want BMR capability for both Solaris, AIX, and NT, then you'll need a Solaris, AIX, and NT server for their product to work. Each of those servers will need to run the BMR File Server and BMR Netboot Server.From the sound of it, I worry that if you had some servers running Solaris 6 and some Solaris 7, that you might need a different File/Boot server for each of those. After taking over the TSM admin for our site, I've been looking in to BMR options. The best I've come up with so far is the following: I bought some big bit buckets for inside the TSM (RS6000 h50 AIX) server. Nothing too fast, just decent. For my AIX servers, I'm running makesysb and dumping the data onto a NFS share. For Solaris and Linux, I'm using the hostdump.sh script from backupcentral.com (run by the Orielly backup book author) to dump to the NFS share. I manually dump the OS only after the change log is modified (we keep a change log on the boot system so that any admin that makes a change logs it in case there are problems). This way it's fairly automated. I also run it manually before/after patching or upgrading. I also run SysAudit and Sysinfo every night and dump those locally and to the same NFS share, so I have up to date info on the system in case I loose the disk configurations. To restore, I use the install CD to boot, get the networking up and running, mount the NFS share, and restore. I'm still rolling this out, but so far it's worked well. I restored a solaris 7 server as a test, and it was flawless. Advantages: - no need for tape drives on every machine - system backups are always available on disk - system backups are also backed up from the TSM server disks in case that server crashs - No need to reinstall OS/patches/TSM client to restore data - very helpful if you are trying to standarize your OS configs - can be used as an 'image' to upgrade/standardize multiple systems Disadvantages - using NFS, but wrapped it so it's only available from server subnet - lots of duplicated system data (working on this) - more manual steps, but once documented, not hard Steve Cochran Dartmouth College
Re: bare metal restore for NT...
Also in the FAQ, I noticed that is does not *yet* support restoring to dissimiliar hardware. Considering that a true Disaster Recovery will probably take place in slightly different systems, I find it a little odd the BMR still doesn't support that yet. The hardest thing to do is restore NT machines because it's impossible to get an exact copy of the hardware at the DR site. So restoring the registry is useless. BMR looks promising, but only for NT. Mksysb's are still very useful and less of a hassle than setting up a BMR boot server. - Tom Walker Tech Support Analyst -Original Message- From: Stephen A. Cochran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 11:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: bare metal restore for NT... Someone pointed TKG's product out a few months ago to me, and I looked at their site. If you read the FAQ carefully, you'll see that you will need one server for every type of system you need to restore. So if want BMR capability for both Solaris, AIX, and NT, then you'll need a Solaris, AIX, and NT server for their product to work. This e-mail including any attachments is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you have received it in error please advise the sender immediately by return email and then delete it from your system. The unauthorized use, distribution, copying or alteration of this email is strictly forbidden. This email is from a unit or subsidiary of EMI Recorded Music, North America
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How can I put this. The total package cost us in excess of 60Kusd. Even an extra 10usd over that will make eyebrows rise. I am quite aware that there are cheap machines, and I'v actually considered that option, but I am still left in a situation where I have to explain why it is that I didn't know about this earlier. I'll live through it, but it has put a major dent in the relationship that we have with IBM, and we are IBM customers for nearly 10 years almost exclusivly (servers, support etc). Such is life. Now where did I put those old dat tapes and the BE software... Mike -Original Message- From: Palmadesso Jack [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: â îàé 22 2001 16:26 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: bare metal restore for NT... If you are speaking about budgets then I hear you. Then again I am wondering what the minimum requirements are. Sun makes these new machines called Blades. Some are as cheap as 1300usd and perform similar an Ultra60. We are trying a few of them out now. That wouldn't be such a large investment. Otherwise there is always next years budget. -Original Message- From: Mike Glassman - Admin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 11:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: bare metal restore for NT... Yes, so I understood, but with the amount of money we have already invested in the system, and with the fact that our dealers and integrators forgot to explain this issue untill yesterday (3 months after the initiall installation etc), I cannot now go and explain that I need a second server for BMR, as much as I would like to. So I am stuck. Mike -Original Message- From: Palmadesso Jack [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: â îàé 22 2001 15:54 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: bare metal restore for NT... The wording is a bit hard to understand but I believe that the BMR server itself is a separate server and requires Unix. BMR does not care what the TSM server is itself. Check the FAQ out on their site. http://www.tkg.com/bmr/tsm This looks promising! -Original Message- From: Mike Glassman - Admin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 10:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: bare metal restore for NT... Ray, Do you have some idea when you will have BRM that will work when the TSM server is an NT server ? Mike -Original Message- From: Ray Schafer [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: â îàé 22 2001 15:13 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: bare metal restore for NT... Thank you, Jack. While we do offer BMR, The Kernel Group is an independent software vendor that has numerous relationships with IBM/Tivoli. In this particular case, our Bare Metal Restore product is re-marketed by IBM/Tivoli to extend the recovery capabilities TSM currently has with the system recovery that we provide. Palmadesso Jack wrote: You may want to look at the Kernel Groups Bare Metal Recovery tool. We are planning on bringing them in here. Supposedly its a one button recovery that interacts with TSM. By the way the Kernel Group is part of IBM. Jack -Original Message- From: Zosimo Noriega (ADNOC IST) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 6:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: bare metal restore for NT... I'm looking a tool or agent that i can use for complete disaster recovery for NT. I heard this tool, can you please provide me enough information. thanks a lot. Zosi Noriega ADNOC P.O. Box 898 AUH - AUE File: Card for Ray Schafer
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The BMR Server should work just fine on the Sun Blade. Palmadesso Jack wrote: If you are speaking about budgets then I hear you. Then again I am wondering what the minimum requirements are. Sun makes these new machines called Blades. Some are as cheap as 1300usd and perform similar an Ultra60. We are trying a few of them out now. That wouldn't be such a large investment. Otherwise there is always next years budget. -Original Message- From: Mike Glassman - Admin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 11:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: bare metal restore for NT... Yes, so I understood, but with the amount of money we have already invested in the system, and with the fact that our dealers and integrators forgot to explain this issue untill yesterday (3 months after the initiall installation etc), I cannot now go and explain that I need a second server for BMR, as much as I would like to. So I am stuck. Mike -Original Message- From: Palmadesso Jack [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: b n`i 22 2001 15:54 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: bare metal restore for NT... The wording is a bit hard to understand but I believe that the BMR server itself is a separate server and requires Unix. BMR does not care what the TSM server is itself. Check the FAQ out on their site. http://www.tkg.com/bmr/tsm This looks promising! -Original Message- From: Mike Glassman - Admin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 10:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: bare metal restore for NT... Ray, Do you have some idea when you will have BRM that will work when the TSM server is an NT server ? Mike -Original Message- From: Ray Schafer [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: b n`i 22 2001 15:13 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: bare metal restore for NT... Thank you, Jack. While we do offer BMR, The Kernel Group is an independent software vendor that has numerous relationships with IBM/Tivoli. In this particular case, our Bare Metal Restore product is re-marketed by IBM/Tivoli to extend the recovery capabilities TSM currently has with the system recovery that we provide. Palmadesso Jack wrote: You may want to look at the Kernel Groups Bare Metal Recovery tool. We are planning on bringing them in here. Supposedly its a one button recovery that interacts with TSM. By the way the Kernel Group is part of IBM. Jack -Original Message- From: Zosimo Noriega (ADNOC IST) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 6:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: bare metal restore for NT... I'm looking a tool or agent that i can use for complete disaster recovery for NT. I heard this tool, can you please provide me enough information. thanks a lot. Zosi Noriega ADNOC P.O. Box 898 AUH - AUE File: Card for Ray Schafer begin:vcard n:Schafer;Ray tel;cell:+1 (512) 426-3188 tel;fax:+1 (512) 433-3200 tel;work:+1 (512) 433-3345 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.tkg.com org:The Kernel Group;Sales and Services version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Senior Sales Engineer adr;quoted-printable:;;1250 South Capital of Texas Highway=0D=0ABldg 3, Ste. 601;Austin;TX;78746;United States fn:Ray Schafer end:vcard
bare metal restore for NT...
I'm looking a tool or agent that i can use for complete disaster recovery for NT. I heard this tool, can you please provide me enough information. thanks a lot. Zosi Noriega ADNOC P.O. Box 898 AUH - AUE
Re: bare metal restore for NT...
You may want to look at the Kernel Groups Bare Metal Recovery tool. We are planning on bringing them in here. Supposedly its a one button recovery that interacts with TSM. By the way the Kernel Group is part of IBM. Jack -Original Message- From: Zosimo Noriega (ADNOC IST) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 6:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: bare metal restore for NT... I'm looking a tool or agent that i can use for complete disaster recovery for NT. I heard this tool, can you please provide me enough information. thanks a lot. Zosi Noriega ADNOC P.O. Box 898 AUH - AUE
Re: Bare Metal Restore for NT
John, I have currently been working on a system level recovery procedure. I now have tested procedures for restoring to the same hardware and changing the system disk controller. Here is what I am doing: 1. Backup entire system including registry and event logs. 2. Load base NT + IP to any directory other than WINNT. 3. Install the TSM client. 4. Restore the entire C:\ drive 5. Copy the following files to C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\Config: C:\ADSM.SYS\REGISTRY\%MACHINENAME%\MACHINE\*.* C:\ADSM.SYS\REGISTRY\%MACHINENAME%\USERS\DEFAULT C:\ADSM.SYS\EVENTLOG\*.* 6. Reboot server and verify that NT is running properly. Make sure to check out Disk Administrator. A lot of times NT will switch the letters on the D: and E: drives. 7. Restore all other applications and data. 8. Reboot again, and server should be running as normal. 9. Clean up temp installation Rick Smith State Farm Insurance Storage Management (309) 735-3086 -Original Message- From: John.R.O'[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:John.R.O'[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 6:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Bare Metal Restore for NT We currently have an open PMR for trying to restore a registry on a NT system. It appears to me that there is a overall problem restoring NT registry with TSM. We are about to try out Bare Metal Restore from The Kernel Group. This product appears to works with TSM on restoring a entire NT system including the registry. Does anybody else use this product or one similar or have you been able to restore a registry on a NT system? When we restored the registry we did the following: 1. Reload NT TAM 2. Restore the system with TAM 3. Restore the registry 4. Reboot 5. Errors occur on the reboot John R. O'Connell Phone:408-492-2042 Pager:408-949-1432 John.R.O'[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Thanks for the replies. All of them have helped. John R. O'Connell Phone:408-492-2042 Pager:408-949-1432 John.R.O'[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Richard Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 6:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bare Metal Restore for NT John, I have currently been working on a system level recovery procedure. I now have tested procedures for restoring to the same hardware and changing the system disk controller. Here is what I am doing: 1. Backup entire system including registry and event logs. 2. Load base NT + IP to any directory other than WINNT. 3. Install the TSM client. 4. Restore the entire C:\ drive 5. Copy the following files to C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\Config: C:\ADSM.SYS\REGISTRY\%MACHINENAME%\MACHINE\*.* C:\ADSM.SYS\REGISTRY\%MACHINENAME%\USERS\DEFAULT C:\ADSM.SYS\EVENTLOG\*.* 6. Reboot server and verify that NT is running properly. Make sure to check out Disk Administrator. A lot of times NT will switch the letters on the D: and E: drives. 7. Restore all other applications and data. 8. Reboot again, and server should be running as normal. 9. Clean up temp installation Rick Smith State Farm Insurance Storage Management (309) 735-3086 -Original Message- From: John.R.O'[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:John.R.O'[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 6:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Bare Metal Restore for NT We currently have an open PMR for trying to restore a registry on a NT system. It appears to me that there is a overall problem restoring NT registry with TSM. We are about to try out Bare Metal Restore from The Kernel Group. This product appears to works with TSM on restoring a entire NT system including the registry. Does anybody else use this product or one similar or have you been able to restore a registry on a NT system? When we restored the registry we did the following: 1. Reload NT TAM 2. Restore the system with TAM 3. Restore the registry 4. Reboot 5. Errors occur on the reboot John R. O'Connell Phone:408-492-2042 Pager:408-949-1432 John.R.O'[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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You can't overwrite an active registry. Two options: 1. Step 1 should be to install NT and TSM to non-standard directories. That way you can restore the registry. 2. Restore the c:\adsm.sys directory tree, then boot with an NTFS aware diskette, and copy the directory files back to c:\winnt\system32\config. I'd advise reading the redbook on NT Bare Metal Restores (I can't find the number, but you can search for it on the www.redbooks.ibm.com website), as there's more to restoring an entire NT system than meets the eye. Nick Cassimatis [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I'm one cookie away from happy." - Snoopy (Charles Schulz)
