Jerry,
your question was "how to remove the symptom". To remove the problem -
remove Windows, period.
In Windows you have two options:
1. Backup "System Object". Read carefully - it is singular not plural. All
binaries + DLLs + registry + (optional) other system components = (one)
System Object. That single object is backed up as a whole. If any
component of it is changed the whole is assumed changed and is backed up.
Same as for file backup - if few bytes are changed the whole file is
backed up. The problem is that %$#$% System Object is terribly huge.
2. Backup parts independently - exclude the %$^$% Object, backup
executables & DLLs and develop some own solution for registry, event logs,
AD, MSCS Cluster DB, etc. You are on your own. Otherwise you have to rely
on M$ and use option 1.
Sorry.
Zlatko Krastev
IT Consultant
"Lawson, Jerry W (ETSD, IT)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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16.10.2002 14:47
Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"
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Subject: More on Repeat Backups...
Date: October 16, 2002 Time: 7:31 AM
From: Jerry Lawson
The Hartford Insurance Group
860 547-2960 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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First - let me thank you all for the responses to my original question.
Your answers have gotten me thinking some - I say some, because at my age,
it's hard to get everything going again, and I suffer from "senior
moments"
too often.
Most of the answers revolved around the suggestion that I could exclude
something - either the files themselves, or the System Object itself if I
get the newest client. This seems to me to be treating the symptom,
rather
than the problem - if I exclude them, obviously, I can never restore them
(DUH!). If these do get corrupted or deleted, it would appear that I
could
be in for another bout with my desktop support folks - they just had my
Laptop for 3 weeks - I'm not eager to deal with them again. Now I will be
the first to admit that I'm not MS Certified on any OS, and so the idea of
excluding the whole System Object is scary as well - doesn't that include
a
big portion of registry information if I need to do a complete restore? Or
is the idea of a Bare Metal restore with TSM one that has died?
In my (sometimes overly simplistic) mind, I remember the ADSM class I
attended where the instructor identified how a file was determined to have
changed - either the date, the time, or the size has changed. Has TSM
changed this philosophy? After all, I look at the files in question, and
nothing has changed that I can see externally. Shouldn't there be a
better
approach than to say "well, they're a part of the system object, and
therefore you need to exclude them." Shouldn't the software be smart
enough
to figure this out?
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Jerry (still tilting
at
windmills)
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