Troubleshooting
Problem
User wants to do bare metal restore of a Windows NT or 2000 computer. Identical hardware is being used at restore time. Therefore, reason for the restore is probably recovery from harddrive failure or OS files corruption.
Resolving The Problem
Backup Preparation:
For NT4 the TSM dsm.opt BACKUPREG YES is the default for incrementals.
For W2K the TSM dsm.opt DOMAIN ALL-LOCAL is the default, this will include
SYSTEMOBJECT backup for incrementals.
Please remove all excludes from dsm.opt.
Record Windows Service Pack level, harddrive partitioning and filesystem formatting information for use at recovery time.
Backup Commands:
dsmc incr
TSM Windows 2000 restore steps:
1. Repartition, format harddrive
2. Install W2K, set computername to original
3. Install appropriate W2K Service Pack
4. Install tsm ba client
5. dsmc restore c:\ -replace=all -subdir=yes
6. dsmc restore systemobject
7. Reboot
TSM NT 4 Restore Steps:
1. Repartition, format harddrive
2. Install nt4 to c:\wintemp, set computername to something other than original
3. Install appropriate NT4 Service Pack
4. Install tsm ba client
5. dsmc restore c:\ -replace=all -subdir=yes
6. Restore registry
7. Copy c:\adsm.sys\registry\<nodename>\machine\*.* c:\winnt\system32\config\
8. Copy c:\adsm.sys\registry\<nodename>\users\default c:\winnt\system32\config\
9. Reboot
10. Remove c:\wintemp
There are more details in redbooks sg242231,sg244880,sg246141,sg246844.
For Windows NT restores documented in sg242231 and sg244880, there is an error in the examples for restoring the windows registry files directly from TSM. The corrected command is:
"dsmc restore c:\adsm.sys\registry\<nodename>\machine\ c:\winnt\system32\config\ -preservepath=none"
Or
Use the copy command cited above instead.
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Document Information
More support for:
Tivoli Storage Manager
Software version:
5.1.5
Operating system(s):
Windows
Document number:
664191
Modified date:
17 June 2018
UID
swg21107057