"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> wrote on 11/29/2005 10:04:46 AM: > You can build your own Bootable CD on Windows. > You are a Enterprise company so you should have access to Windows > PE. But for other users you can search for Bart PE.
When I talk about creating bootable restore media, I'm talking about media that contains an easily accessible image of the client's system disk as it exists (like mksysb for AIX), complete with installed hardware drivers and application code. (mksysb restores of root volume groups are *much* faster and more dependable than anything that can be achieved with a C: drive or sys: volume rebuild with any backup/recovery software.) Further, when you use mksysb restores to dissimilar hardware, placing AIX CD volume #1 in the optical drive will take care of most drivers that might be missing in the tape. The bootable Windows CD, even when it is built with nifty utilities like nLite, is a vanilla install image with neither drivers nor applications. Apps like Ghost are an option, but my opinion is that a real server operating system has that sort of thing built into it, and will write to magnetic media (so I can create bootable images as large as they need to be). (I guess that leaves out NetWare, which would be the stable, usable Intel-based server OS of *my* choice.) > That's why IBM recommends 3rd part software's for Intel platforms. Indeed, but that's because TSM was not built to do BMRs; the clever folk in the TSM world (including many ADSM-Lers) figured out how to make it work. -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Electronic Privacy Notice. This e-mail, and any attachments, contains information that is, or may be, covered by electronic communications privacy laws, and is also confidential and proprietary in nature. If you are not the intended recipient, please be advised that you are legally prohibited from retaining, using, copying, distributing, or otherwise disclosing this information in any manner. Instead, please reply to the sender that you have received this communication in error, and then immediately delete it. Thank you in advance for your cooperation. ==============================================================================
