Symantec Corporation

Symantec Operating Corporation

Mitchell Mikula

Jason Andrew Miller

Nicholas Graf

Okan Okcu

Systems, methods, and computer-readable memory media for performing various computer configuration tasks are disclosed. One such configuration task is dissimilar system restore (DSR). Another such task is software deployment. In various embodiments, these configuration tasks operate on a target computer system using a utility operating system to perform detection of certain target system devices, determination of critical device classes on the source computer system, and updating of target computer configuration settings. Other tasks may be performed upon a computer system such as a backup server. These tasks include locating device drivers for the target operating systems and the installing utility operating system, as well as creating device driver packages that are usable to install device drivers for a plurality of devices.

Automatic detection of hardware and device drivers during restore operations

In one embodiment, a computer accessible medium comprises a plurality of instructions. The plurality of instructions, when executed, present a graphical view of a first computer system configuration and a second computer system configuration. The first computer system configuration comprising a first plurality of computer system resources. Similarly, the second computer system configuration comprises a second plurality of computer system resources. The plurality of instructions, when executed, also provide a mechanism to capture data representing at least a first resource of the first plurality of computer system resources from the first computer system configuration and insert the data in the second computer system configuration. A similar method and computer system are contemplated. In some embodiments, the computer system resources include one or more volumes and mappings to one or more storage devices.

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Austin, TX, United States of America

Mitchell Mikula