Wednesday, November 2, 2005
Submit A Question Or Topic
If anyone would like to submit a topic they would like to see covered or have a question about TSM or tape/SAN issues or strategy please e-mail me at chadsmal@us.ibm.com. With 5.3.2 out soon there will some things to cover. I am also thinking of posting an article on my LAN-Free to disk trial that was a great success. If anyone is interested in LAN-Free to disk let me know and I'll post my experience. If you would like to submit a post I am open to having guest contributors. Even though the name says TSMExpert I do not profess to know it all. Your contribution or questions help others out there.
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I'd like to see a discussion about restoring a node to different hardware. I've been working on it for a while and haven't found a way to do a clean restore.
ReplyDeleteI've been trying to move a windows 2003 system to new hardware. We get vendors in sometimes to do installs, so we have no idea how to install and setup some applications. I'm trying to use TSM to move the system by doing a restore to new box; specifically an old Dell 1650 PowerEdge to a new 1850 Poweredge. Old box had three small HDs, new box has one large HD. I found I can't simply install the OS, restore, but don't overide files, restore system state, and then reboot, like for same hardware systems. I've had to install Windows to a different dir than on the original system. Then do a restore, while not overriding files, then do a system state restore. When I reboot the system will not come up, a message about WINNT\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM missing or not found. So I use the recovery console, do a FIXBOOT /REBUILD and add the fresh OS install to the Boot.ini and come up on it. The odd thing is the computer name is changed to old one and it tried to join the domain. The previous network settings are gone. Plus it has forgotten about all the hardware, it rediscovers and installs everything. Now I've got a function OS that pulls some stuff from
ReplyDeletec:\WINNT (old dir) and
c:\WINDOWS(new dir)
I've tried everything I can think of to get everything moved into one install or the other, and I can't do it. I’m trying to see if someone with more experience could help.
I didn't miss the disclaimers; I don't like being told I can't do something. I'm going to one disk because that's what I have. I'm doing this for disaster recovery testing so I'm not taking for granted we'll be able to get in exact hardware duplicates in an acceptable time frame. Not to mention some of the systems I back up are so old we couldn't get the same hardware if we had to. This isn't necessarily a is this the best way or is it pretty, it's if something really bad happens can we run on this until we get time to get it right. It would be nice if I didn't have to plan for this, but it would be nice not to have plan for disaster recovery too. Thanks for any information you can dig up.
ReplyDeleteISC + TSM AdminCenter vs. old WEB based TSM administration:
ReplyDeleteI tried it on a Linux box. Brrr... Does anybody have any good experience with ISC+AC? Is it worth to develop such a big, sensitive, slow, unstable and painful... applicaton? and drop the good one???
Why?
When the system died after a reboot were they using an alternate windows install dir than the install directory on the original system?
ReplyDeleteDoes any one have the procedures for setting up a second TSM 5.2.3.3 instance on a AIX 5.3 server. Any help will be much appreciated.
ReplyDeleteAC 11/2005