Guide to Tivoli backup in O'Reilly cookbook style?

March 24, 2008 8:01 PM

Does anyone have a practical guide for IBM's Tivoli Storage Manager (Express)? Specifically restoring. I'm particularly after a step by step guide to restoring an entire server after a major hardware failure or disaster.
posted by krisjohn to computers & internet (2 comments total)

I hope that this is a theoretical question and not an OMG!!! question.

This handout from this Tivoli Storage Manager Bare Metal Restore (.pdf) presentation is surprisingly good. You may want to look at the references on page 31 for real books though.
posted by 26.2 at 9:54 PM on March 24, 2008

26.2 is correct. The basics are: repair the physical machine or obtain an *identical* one. Reinstall the OS from scratch (or have a separate ghost-type image of it). Install the Trivolli client, restore the server to the last good snapshot.
posted by gjc at 5:15 AM on March 25, 2008