I have seen most of the answers to this question. However, this may be one thing you have not considered. Remember TSM is only going to mount the tapes it needs once you update the access to the copy pools so that they can be used to resolve the restores. It think your issue was you thought you had to recreate the primary pools before you could do any restores, not so. As one suggested you may still need to rebuild the primary pools in a real disaster so that you can start running backups again. You should probably test that after you get your stuff restored. Otherwise, you will only have one copy of your data unless you have multiple copy pools until you do so. Think about what you are trying to accomplish from a business point of view, then whittle it down to something that you can afford.
-----Original Message----- From: Cinda Mullen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 10:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Disaster Recovery...Has anyone really successfully done testing? Good Morning All.... We are running TSM on OS/390 (Version 4.1.4). We have approximately 200 NT/UNIX/NETWARE servers and are backing our daily incremental stgpools to copypools for offsite storage. It appears the copypools don't just keep the active versions of data, they keep everything....we currently have 190+ Storage Tek 9840s offsite for TSM. If we go to the hotsite to do Disaster Recovery Testing, how do we restore these storage pools in a reasonable amount of time? Has anyone successfully performed Disaster Recovery? Our TSM database is 10GB so, I'm also guessing it will take quite a while to get that restored??? Any ideas, thoughts? Is anyone using Backupsets instead of copypools for DR? Thanks!! Cinda Mullen Sr. Systems Programmer Ascension Health ISD [EMAIL PROTECTED] NOTE: This e-mail message may contain information that may be privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure. It is intended for use only by the person to whom it is addressed. If you have received this message in error, please do not forward or use this information in any way, delete it immediately, and contact the sender as soon as possible by the reply option or by telephone at the telephone number listed (if available). Thank you.
