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Tivoli Storage Manager for Windows Backup-Archive Clients Installation and User's Guide

Restoring a Disk in the Event of Disk Loss

The Tivoli Storage Manager client must be installed in order to recover files. If the disk that contains the client is lost, you must reinstall the client before you can recover your files.

If your administrator has created a backup set of your files on portable media, you can use that set to recover the files without the use of a server. See "Restoring Data from a Backup Set" for information on backup sets.

If you lose the disk containing the operating system, you must recover the operating system before you can connect to the server.

To protect yourself against these kinds of losses, you should have available the operating system installation media or a software installation mechanism that you used to build the workstation originally. Alternatively, you may be able to assemble a set of diskettes to repair or boot your system to a condition that permits you to contact the server and begin recovering data. Depending on your environment, these diskettes may need to contain some or all of the following items:

Consult your operating system and communication software manuals for help in setting up these diskettes.

If you have large volumes of data that may need to be recovered, your administrator may want to create a backup set of those files on portable media. You can then use that set to recover the files without using a server. See "Restoring Data from a Backup Set" for information on backup sets.


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