Re: New Backup Process

2005-08-16 Thread AARON BECAR
I am seeking to find the Try and Buy for 60 days for the IBM TSM Software. We are switching our backup process to TSM and I just wanted to practice the install and test a few things out before we do a full implementation. I noticed in all of the Red and White Papers that there is a CD that can be

Re: Image backup

2005-08-16 Thread nghiatd
Thank for your help, I have some questions to you >if you plan on using this i do not recomend useing it on mission critical machines, this is good for low profile machines, desktop machines and static servers. but then again sysprep is better in solving that. What is SYSPREP ? I also impl

Re: Another backup set question

2005-08-16 Thread Timothy Hughes
Hi Mark, Thanks, Yes you are correct, I was getting confused because When you go to define a backup set using the TSM GUI it reads the following. Define Backup Set Fill out the following to define an existing backup set to this server. . And I was thinking THIS SERVER meant the one I generated

Re: Another backup set question

2005-08-16 Thread Mark D. Rodriguez
Timothy, If you generated the backup set on the same TSM server that you are now trying to define it there is no need to do that. The "define backupset" command is used to define a backup set to a server other than where it was created or to re-define the backup set on the original server if tha

Another backup set question

2005-08-16 Thread Timothy Hughes
Hello all, I generated a test backup set and I want to define it. When I try to enter in the tape volume (c00253) the back up set is on I get the following message. ANR2405E DEFINE BACKUPSET: Volume C00253 is currently in use by clients and/or data management operations. I checked and the tape

Re: Image backup

2005-08-16 Thread Pétur Eyþórsson
Nghiatd. you can take a phicial drive on annother machine an plug it in with a running system, you do not need to format it. just plug it in and make the OS see the logical device. then you can restore the image on that device, then you need to put that drive phisically on the failed machine, a