Re: Are there vendors who have System i5 bare metal restore capability -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: Are there vendors who have System i5 bare metal restore capability
From: Lukas Beeler <lukas.beeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:44:32 +0100
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On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 17:05, Don Cavaiani <dcavaiani@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Is that only available from a tape?

Well, it's the easiest way, yes. You could do a bare metal recovery
using Virtual Tapes and the IBM provided OS CDs.

What would have to be the 'state'
of the box restoring to?

Doesn't matter. It's a bare metal restore. You boot from the tape,
initialize and format all disks and off you go.

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