I agree with everything that has been said so far and the performance posting regarding Christie BMR was impressive. However, I'm not sure whether I'd want to shell out the cost per server, however good the results/efficiency.
While TSM is not strictly designed to BMR Windows systems back to different hardware, I have used it successfully, on many occasions, to accomplish this. The IBM technote, previously mentioned does contain most of what is required, but for me, when restoring to dis-similar hardware, I would always take a copy (to floppy) of the following files, pre-restore. W2K C:\%systemroot%\system32\hal.dll C:\%systemroot%\system32\kernel32.dll C:\%systemroot%\system32\ntdll.dll C:\%systemroot%\system32\ntkrnlpa.exe C:\%systemroot%\system32\ntoskrnl.exe C:\%systemroot%\system32\win32k.sys C:\%systemroot%\system32\winsrv.dll W2K3 C:\%systemroot%\system32\hal.dll C:\%systemroot%\system32\ntkrnlpa.exe C:\%systemroot%\system32\ntoskrnl.exe If after the full TSM restore process (as detailed in IBM technote), the machine reboots to a blue screen, then you can use the MS Recovery Console to copy the system files back to the system root from the floppy. Very rarely with some RAID controllers that have additional functionality (failover, redundancy), I have had to disable certain devices/services from booting (again from MS Recovery Console). This has had to be a fairly intuitive process and I would imagine not scriptable in s/w, unless on a case by case basis. The only other point to note is that certain levels of past TSM clients have a bug in them where they incorrectly merge the registry thus overwriting the disk controller driver and not obeying the "keys not to restore". See IC38716 You will still have to re-install the NIC drivers, or drivers for other PCI cards/peripherals, but you would hope that the hardware supplier would have these readily available. JMEW Leigh -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Brown Sent: 28 November 2005 21:53 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM Bmr ?? do you have the link for cristies bmr, and how much is it tim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barnhart, Troy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 4:17 PM Subject: Re: TSM Bmr ?? I'm a big fan of the Cristie's BMR for Windows and RedHat Linux. They are pretty slick. I can restore a box from scratch in under 10 minutes. My only caveat for "dislike hardware" restores is using newer hardware. i.e. their driver support for older hardware. We had problems getting older drivers to work correctly - such as old "HP LH3 Netservers." But, with our newer IBM xSeries - very smooth... Regards, Troy Troy Barnhart, Sr. Systems Programmer, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rapid City Regional Hospital, Rapid City, South Dakota, 57701 ph: 605-719-8068 / fax: 605-719-4206 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Prather, Wanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 4:02 PM Subject: Re: TSM Bmr ?? What I meant was, to a different TYPE machine, i.e., disklike hardware, not just a different machine. The Christie Bare Metal add-on product supports restoring Windows to unlike hardware. -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Brown Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 4:04 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: TSM Bmr ?? you said that windows does not support restoring a registry to a different machine, but isnt that what happens when i follow the instructions in the "Disaster Recovery Strategies with TSM" pdf. is tsm ever going to support restoring to dislike hardware ? tim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Prather, Wanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 3:40 PM Subject: Re: TSM Bmr ?? http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;249694 -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Brown Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 3:37 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: TSM Bmr ?? is there documentation that describes the differences between "the same machine after a hard drive failure" and "restoring to different hardware at a hot site" i am attempting the later tim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Prather, Wanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 3:26 PM Subject: Re: TSM Bmr ?? IT's not a TSM issue, it's a Windows issue. Microsoft does not support restoring a registry to a different machine. That being said, they used to have a procedure in the knowledge base that you can try. Check there. How you test BMR, depends on what you are trying to do. You need different procedures for different possible disasters; Procedures needed to restore back to the same machine after a hard drive failure, are simpler than the case where you are restoring to different hardware at a hot site. -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Brown Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 3:25 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: TSM Bmr ?? Is there still a requirement to restore a TSM client to the same server hardware type. Can the restored server be somewhat different. How does everyone else test the TSM BMR procedures. 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