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Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - Storage
Product - Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Family
For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
Brand - Tivoli
Product family - Storage
Product - Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Family
Thank you for submitting this enhancement request, unfortunately, we currently do not plan to implement this enhancement request, there are multiple reasons for this decision and i'll try to describe some of the major points
- Microsoft's MSDN site gives a brief outline of backing up and restoring system state here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb968830%28v=VS.85%29.aspx
The pertinent text is: the Windows system state is defined as being a collection of several key operating system elements and their files. These elements should always be treated as a unit by backup and restore operations.
So Microsoft did not intend that system state be restorable on an individual file basis, doing so (Restoring individual files from a system state backup) may result in unexpected behavior of the OS
- Users can do something like this from the TSM client command line interface (dsmc) prompt: by restoring the system state to a separate location and use Microsoft tools to extract the file
restore "{MACHINE_NAME\SystemState\NULL\System State\SystemState}\*" X:\targetrestoredir\ -pick -subdir=yes
once you have the target directory restored you can use the WBAdmin to extract individual files from it
(http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc742070(WS.10).aspx), however, if you intend to use this method to restore or repair an OS, it would be outside the boundaries of our support, the supported way to restore or repair an OS is by restoring the system state in its entirety.
- I would appreciate if you can clarify further what is it that you're trying to achieve (from a business perspective), what's the problem that you're trying to solve?