Bare Metal Restore Procedures for Windows NT and 2000

Resolving The Problem

Backup Preparation:

For NT4 the TSM dsm.opt BACKUPREG YES is the default for incrementals.
For W2K the TSM dsm.opt DOMAIN ALL-LOCAL is the default, this will include
SYSTEMOBJECT backup for incrementals.
Please remove all excludes from dsm.opt.
Record Windows Service Pack level, harddrive partitioning and filesystem formatting information for use at recovery time.

Backup Commands:

dsmc incr


TSM Windows 2000 restore steps:

1. Repartition, format harddrive
2. Install W2K, set computername to original
3. Install appropriate W2K Service Pack
4. Install tsm ba client
5. dsmc restore c:\ -replace=all -subdir=yes
6. dsmc restore systemobject
7. Reboot


TSM NT 4 Restore Steps:

1. Repartition, format harddrive
2. Install nt4 to c:\wintemp, set computername to something other than original
3. Install appropriate NT4 Service Pack
4. Install tsm ba client
5. dsmc restore c:\ -replace=all -subdir=yes
6. Restore registry
7. Copy c:\adsm.sys\registry\<nodename>\machine\*.* c:\winnt\system32\config\
8. Copy c:\adsm.sys\registry\<nodename>\users\default c:\winnt\system32\config\
9. Reboot
10. Remove c:\wintemp


There are more details in redbooks sg242231,sg244880,sg246141,sg246844.
For Windows NT restores documented in sg242231 and sg244880, there is an error in the examples for restoring the windows registry files directly from TSM. The corrected command is:
"dsmc restore c:\adsm.sys\registry\<nodename>\machine\ c:\winnt\system32\config\ -preservepath=none"

Or

Use the copy command cited above instead.