Hm. I think you should go back and figure out WHY you are having trouble with ASR "taking forever". It does exactly what you ask - lets you boot from a CD, and restore from TSM.
The way it is coded the TSM restore piece is slow, but we found that was due to the restored files all echoing back to the DOS window. If you will edit the ASR diskette and change the commands as shown to pipe the output to a file instead of echoing back to the screen, it cuts the restore time drastically: dsmc restore \\TSM2003TEST\C$\ C:\ -subdir=yes -preservepath=complete -replace=all -tapeprompt=no -nodename=node$ -optfile=tsmasr.opt >restore_$C.log dsmc restore systemstate -asrmode=yes -nodename= node$ -computername=TSM2003TEST -optfile=tsmasr.opt >restore_sysstate.log dsmc restore systemservices -asrmode=yes -nodename= node$ -computername=TSM2003TEST -optfile=tsmasr.opt >restore_sysservices.log . Wanda Prather "I/O, I/O, It's all about I/O" -(me) -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schaub, Steve Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 7:53 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Will TSM ever support BMR for windows systems? Well, it's also a big pain in the tush for me to explain to mgmt why I'm budgeting for a BMR tool for our 600 Windows servers even though we already hand over a boatload of $$ to Tivoli for a backup product, because I have to have something I can depend on to perform dissimilar hardware restores. I just don't think it could be that difficult for Tivoli to come up with a boot cd like they use for ServerGuide that is "TSM aware" and capable of hardware detection. -Steve Schaub -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Allen S. Rout Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 5:35 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Will TSM ever support BMR for windows systems? >> On Tue, 5 Dec 2006 15:15:47 -0600, "Dearman, Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Does anyone know if Tivoli is working on a product that will support > BMR on windows systems. I know Cristie can be used but I don't want > another third party product and ASR recovery on Win2003 takes forever. > You would think that TSM would be able to clone or ghost a windows > system at least. Huge pain in the tush, for no return. Other folks have that space very nicely explored, and BMR for [platform A] just encourages folks to ask for it for the rest of them. - Allen S. Rout Please see the following link for the BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee E-mail disclaimer: http://www.bcbst.com/email_disclaimer.shtm
