Installation and User's Guide

|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||dsmc restore systemstate -asrmode=yes -nodename=NTBACKUP-computername=TSMWIN2K3 -optfile=tsmasr.optNTBACKUPPAUSE4. Windows Server 2003 only: Modify TSMASR.OPT on the ASR diskette.Remove the passwordaccess generate statement, if it is present.Backing up boot drive and system drive for AutomatedSystem Recovery (Windows XP or Windows Server 2003)To recover your Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 system using ASR(Automated System Recovery), you must have a complete backup of the boot driveand system drive.You must back up the ASR files using the backup asr command before performingan incremental backup of the system and boot drives. Backing up the ASR filesgenerates the ntdll.asr and smss.asr files and places them in the windows\repairdirectory. These files must be present in the incremental backup of your systemand boot drives in order for Automated System Recovery to succeed. To verify thatthese files have been backed up, use the following command (assume that yourWindows system is installed on the c: drive): QUERY BACKUP C:\WINDOWS\REPAIR\*.ASR1. Perform a complete incremental backup of your system and boot drives. Theboot drive is the partition containing the boot files such as ntldr and boot.ini.The system drive is the partition containing your WINDOWS system directory.Assuming that your system and boot files are on drive c:, enter the followingcommand: dsmc incremental c:2. Back up the system objects (Windows XP) or system state (Windows Server2003). To back up the system state, enter the following command: dsmc backupsystemstate. To back up system objects, enter the following command: dsmcbackup systemobject. To verify that you backed up the system state, enter thefollowing command: dsmc query systemstate. You can specify-showmembers=yes with these commands to display file level detail. To verifythat you backed up the system objects, enter the following command: dsmcquery backup systemobject.Related tasks“Backing up system objects (Windows XP)” on page 122“Backing up Windows system state” on page 123Backing up user profiles for ASR recovery (Windows Server2003)Before recovering your Windows Server 2003 user profiles using ASR (AutomatedSystem Recovery), you must back up user profiles.Use Ntbackup.exe to back up Windows user profiles to local storage. The TivoliStorage Manager backup-archive client can then back up that local file.1. Create a script which lists all of the instances of NTUSER.DAT and UsrClass.datinto a Ntbackup.exe backup script. Then run Ntbackup.exe to back up the filesinto local storage. The backup script is created in Unicode format which isrequired by Ntbackup.exe. This example command called c:\ntexport.cmd cancreate an Ntbackup.exe backup script called c:\tsmback.bks. c:\tsmback.bksbacks up all instances of NTUSER.DAT and UsrClass.dat on the C: drive. If theuser profiles are located on a different drive, modify this example to reflect theappropriate drive location:Chapter 4. Backing up your data 129