Hi David, Excellent, valid points, worthy of "preferred" consideration when planning backups in the enterprise. Many (maybe most) of our clients already implement solutions that are similar to what you describe.
My previous response on this thread was a direct answer to the thread subject which, unless I misunderstood the context, was referring to BMR using only the backup-archive client. There are many users who still use the backup-archive client for complete backup and restore of Windows, though perhaps in a more limited scope today, e.g., physical machines not yet virtualized, resource constraints that do not allow for moving to more modern solutions, etc. By the way, the original poster might have been looking for this older doc, https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/modified-instructions-complete-restores-windows-systems-tsm-client-bare-metal-restore-bmr-system-state-restore-windows-system-object-restore. It has limited use since it applies to IBM Spectrum Protect versions that are out of support, and pre-dates availability of WinPE and ASR for Windows Vista and later operating systems. Regards, Andy Andrew Raibeck IBM Spectrum Protect Level 3 IBM Systems, Storage stor...@us.ibm.com IBM -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> On Behalf Of David L.A. De Leeuw Sent: Saturday, 13 August, 2022 06:43 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Link to current Spectrum Protect BMR process for Server 2016/2019 Hi Andrew Wouldn't it be "best practice" to avoid the need to restore Windows systems ? I am in charge of some 800 systems, and they could be knocked out some day by disaster. We wouldn't be able to start restoring them one by one with WinPE and IBM Spectrum Protect. Did you time how much effort that would take ? Our approach: all servers on virtual infrastructure, all clients with a standard image, we assembled according to our needs. All users' stuff should be on the servers. Server OS disks and snapshot disks are backup up with ISP VE. Larger file systems (> 2 TB) are backed up with regular file based client backup. Restore after disaster: 1. Windows systems: reimage standard from external disks. 2. Server systems: Restore image from ISP / VE 3. File systems: Restore files from ISP Backup Isn't that a better "best practice" if you have large systems ? David David de Leeuw Consultant, Medical Computing Unit Faculty of Health Sciences Support: send message to mcuh...@post.bgu.ac.il -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> On Behalf Of Andrew Raibeck Sent: Friday, August 12, 2022 5:36 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Link to current Spectrum Protect BMR process for Server 2016/2019 This is a good "launchpad" page for the topic: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/recovering-microsoft-windows-systems-using-ibm-spectrum-protect-backup-archive-client The same guidelines apply for all supported Windows OSes, up to, and including, Windows Server 2022. Andrew Raibeck IBM Spectrum Protect Level 3 IBM Systems, Storage stor...@us.ibm.com IBM -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> On Behalf Of Tom Alverson Sent: Friday, 12 August, 2022 10:29 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Link to current Spectrum Protect BMR process for Server 2016/2019 The old links are broken and just go to a generic help page, and google search mostly finds info about Chri$tie BMR. Is there a new BMR process posted somewhere??
