Argument 2 is easier to automate while 1 is technically more correct.
During a restore, you would need to inform your recovered server that some
tapes it might think destroyed are not. When using DRM there is a stanza
that marks volumes destroyed. Typically, these are primary pool volumes and
any copy storage pool volumes that had not been removed before the backup.
Now we all know that we remove the copy stg volumes and the db backup at the
same time. DRM is wrong (why not just run it again? because that's harder
to automate!), but can easily be fixed by commenting out those update
volumes.
Easy, right?
Kelly J. Lipp
Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.
PO Box 51313
Colorado Springs CO 80949-1313
(719) 531-5926
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Robinson, Cris
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 6:13 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Settle an admin schedule argument.
We do the second scenario. The real argument embedded here is when to run
the DB backup. Do you run it before of after the copy pools have been
checked out.
(I'd like to assume that you also have DRM, but I won't.). If you do have to
restore in a DR situation you will be using the copypool tapes. In either
argument the DB backup has captured what volumes have the copy data. So the
next argument is whether they are offsite or not. In argument 1 all will be
marked offsite except for those created the day of the DB Backup. I Argument
2 they have been moved to offsite when the DB Backup is run. All copypool
tapes are marked off-site. I think it is cleaner this way.
That's my opinion, we welcome yours!
CR
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Cris Robinson
Backup & Recovery Engineering
Information Technology Support Services
Liberty Mutual Insurance
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
603.431.8400.54837
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Morgan - Finance [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 7:35 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Settle an admin schedule argument.
>
> I am trying to settle an argument with regards to our admin schedules.
>
>
> Argument 1
>
>
> 1. Overnight schedules.
> 2. Backup storage pools to copy storage pools
> 3. Checkout copy pool tapes
> 4. Backup up database
> 5. Checkout database tapes
> 6. Backup volume history and device config
> 7. Migrate disk pools to tape
> 8. Delete volhist data
> 9. Expire inventory
>
> Argument 2
>
> 1. Overnight schedules.
> 2. Backup storage pools to copy storage pools
> 3. Backup up database
> 4. Backup volume history and device config
> 5. Checkout copy pool tapes
> 6. Checkout database tapes
> 7. Migrate disk pools to tape
> 8. Delete volhist data
> 9. Expire inventory
>
>
> Which of these arguments are correct ?
