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20.1 Windows Bare Machine Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 630
20.1.1 Collect client machine information for disaster recovery . . . . . . . . 630
20.1.2 Collect partition and logical volume information with diskmap . . . 633
20.1.3 Store system information for DRM access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 633
20.1.4 Insert client machine information into DRM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 634
20.1.5 Use machchar.vbs to insert machine reports into DRM . . . . . . . . 635
20.1.6 Windows systems additional information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 638
20.2 Using SysBack for Bare Machine Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639
20.2.1 An introduction to SysBack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641
20.2.2 System installation options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647
20.2.3 Network boot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 648
20.2.4 Multivolume backup and tape device support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 650
20.2.5 Partition backup, recovery, and cloning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651
20.2.6 Partition backup and reinstallation (system recovery). . . . . . . . . . 651
20.2.7 Cloning backup images between partitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657
20.2.8 Cloning from a stand-alone system to a partition . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665
20.2.9 License information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 666
20.2.10 Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667
20.3 Integrating SysBack with Tivoli Storage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667
20.3.1 Prerequisites, limitations, and exclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667
20.3.2 Basic setup and configuration tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670
20.3.3 Creating a Tivoli Storage Manager virtual device . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672
20.3.4 Configuring network boot options for BMR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675
20.3.5 Recovery and system reinstallation from a server . . . . . . . . . . . . 677
Chapter 21. Data Protection configuration on the server . . . . . . . . . . . . 681
21.1 Basic assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 682
21.2 Policy creation requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 682
21.2.1 Defining a management class in an existing policy domain . . . . . 682
21.2.2 Defining a new policy domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 683
21.2.3 Backing up and archiving copygroup considerations . . . . . . . . . . 684
21.3 Register node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687
21.4 Server configuration considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688
Chapter 22. Tivoli Storage Manager upgrade considerations . . . . . . . . 691
22.1 General upgrade considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 692
22.1.1 Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 692
22.1.2 Clients and Data Protection modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 694
22.1.3 Storage Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 697
22.2 Server upgrade best practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 697
22.2.1 Server quiesce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 698
22.2.2 Backing up important components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 698
22.2.3 Upgrading the server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 699
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