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Windows Bare Machine Recovery
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20.1 Windows Bare Machine Recovery Tivoli Storage Manager provides integration with documented Windows APIs for the backup of system objects/system state. This allows for a complete Bare Machine Recovery in combination with the boot/system partition and other data partitions. However, to restore your system, you need to have previously gathered and saved certain machine-specific characteristics, such as network and disk partition information. Therefore, we discuss the methods for collecting this information using operating system utilities and storing this information within DRM. We then provide detailed instructions for recovery of Windows 2000 client, step-by-step, in conjunction with Tivoli Storage Manager. Again, you should read Deploying the Tivoli Storage Manager Client in a Windows 2000 Environment, SG24-6141, for a comprehensive review of Windows 2000 and Bare Machine Recovery. It discusses additional considerations for restoring an Active Directory, Domain Controllers, and DFS. 20.1.1 Collect client machine information for disaster recovery Collecting and recording information about your client systems will greatly help your ability to restore a Windows machine after a disaster to a pre-disaster state. There are several add-on tools, utilities, and features built into Windows that can assist you with information collection, including msinfo32, srvinfo (found in the Windows Resource Kit), diskmap, the Disk Management interface, ipconfig, or writing your own Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) application (see the Windows 2000 SDK for more information about WMI). The information that should be collected for the client system should include: Hard drive partition information, for example, number and type of partitions, disk size, drive letters, amount of data used per volume, boot partition, and system directory System host name TCP/IP networking information, for example, IP address, subnet mask, default gateway, DNS information Windows Service Pack levels Scripts or batch files can be used to automate the collection of client information for users not skilled in these kinds of system-level commands. Client system information should then be stored off-site for potential use during a disaster recovery procedure. Client system information can be imported into DRM (via scripts discussed in 20.1.3, "Store system information for DRM access" on page 633) or DRM administrators can be given access to system information 630 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Implementation Guide