Use Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack for Bare Machine Recovery

Using the FastBack for Bare Machine Recovery CD for bare machine recovery on your Windows system
If you want to boot your operating system from the FastBack for Bare Machine Recovery CD, follow the steps in this section. Follow these steps if you see a blue screen when you boot.

Restoring a disk by using the non-system disk restore
This type of restore uses a system where FastBack Client is installed. To clone and deploy disks, the system is to have an extra disk or a USB disk.

Scenarios using Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack
The following scenarios are common usage scenarios for Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack for Bare Machine Recovery.

Using a single system for client and server
You can complete a bare machine recovery to a system that is used as a server and as a client.

Restoring from a Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack repository on a Tivoli Storage Manager server
Use Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack for Bare Machine Recovery to recover data that is stored on a Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack repository replicated to a Tivoli Storage Manager server by using the FastBack Disaster Recovery.

Using Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack for Bare Machine Recovery on your Linux system
Restore a Linux machine that is protected by the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for FastBack client. A customized Linux image is used to boot the client machine to be recovered.