Tivoli® Storage Manager FastBack for Bare Machine
Recovery is
part of the Tivoli Storage
Manager FastBack product
family.
Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack for Bare Machine
Recovery is
a solution for Windows operating systems that you can
use to recover entire systems to a comparable server, to a new server
with different hardware, or to a virtual machine. You can also use Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack for Bare Machine
Recovery to
migrate a server.
Tivoli Storage
Manager FastBack supports Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack for Bare Machine
Recovery on
both 32 and 64-bit operating systems and processors.
A bare machine recovery has the following advantages:
- Reduce the amount of time it takes for you to get to the point
where you start restoring data.
- Automates some of the steps, for example, re-partitioning your
hard drives.
One way to reduce the amount of downtime after a system failure
is to avoid installing the operating system on your hard drive.
Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack for Bare Machine
Recovery helps
you to restore your operating system by booting an operating system
from a CD into the computer memory, as opposed to booting the operating
system from a hard disk. Booting the operating system from a hard
disk is not feasible because you are recovering a system. When you
run
Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack for Bare Machine
Recovery,
a boot CD, referred to in this document as the
FastBack for Bare Machine Recovery CD, is required.
Cloned disks for deployment can also be created. In this case,
some manual changes in the system names and, perhaps, Active Directory
definitions might be required.
The following situations require the use of Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack for Bare Machine
Recovery:
- Recovery from a corrupted operating system.
- Recovery from failed system hardware.
- Restoring a disk to the same or a different disk on the same computer
due to disk failure.
- Creating clone disks (including the operating system) for deployment.
- Restoring the operating system and environment due to wrong installations
or patches (for example, restore to the same disk and same boot volume).
In a cluster environment, when running bare machine
recovery, direct bare machine recovery to a clustered disk, including
a quorum disk, is not supported. However, you can remove the disk
from the cluster before starting a bare machine recovery. After bare
machine recovery is complete, you can return the disk to the cluster.