Restoring Windows system state

Tivoli® Storage Manager supports the Microsoft Volume Shadowcopy Service (VSS) on Windows clients. Tivoli Storage Manager uses VSS to restore the system state.

About this task

By default, all system state components are restored together.

Extra disk space is required to restore SFP files because they are restored to a temporary location on your disk.

Startable system state components can include the following:

Active Directory (domain controller only)
System volume (domain controller only)
Certificate Server Database
COM+ database
Windows Registry
System and boot files
ASR writer

System services components can include the following:

Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS)
Event logs
Removable Storage Management Database (RSM)
Cluster Database (cluster node only)
Remote Storage Service
Terminal Server Licensing
Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)
Internet Information Services (IIS) metabase
DHCP database
Wins database

Important: Only restore system state during system recovery.

You must be a member of the Administrators group to restore Windows system state information.

On Windows clients, restore systemstate also restores ASR files when running in WinPE (Windows Preinstallation Environment).

To restore Windows system state information using the GUI, follow these steps:

Procedure

Click Restore from the GUI main window. The Restore window appears.
Expand the directory tree by clicking the plus sign +. To display files in a folder, click the folder icon.
Locate the system state node in the directory tree. You can expand the system state node to display the components.
Click the selection box next to the system state node to restore the entire system state. You can restore the startable system state node only as a single entity because of dependencies among the startable system state components. By default, all components are selected; you can restore individual system services components.
Click Restore. The Task List window displays the restore processing status.

Results

On the command line, use the restore systemstate command to restore a backup of system state.

Considerations:

Your Windows client must be connected to a Tivoli Storage Manager Version 5.2.0 or higher server.
If Active Directory is installed, you must be in Active Directory restore mode.
See the related information for performing a system recovery to perform the following tasks:
- Your operating system is still functioning, but a complete system restore is required.
- A complete recovery is required, including an operating system re-installation.