All,
I think Kelly brings up a good point that, most of us don't get to
practice disaster recovery very often. I know that there are plenty of
courses for TSM installation, configuration, and administration. Does
anyone know of available training with a strict focus on disaster recovery
in theory and in practice? Unfortunately, I don't have a development or
test environment for doing this kind of training on my own.
Thanks,
Jon Martin
-----Original Message-----
From: Kelly Lipp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 2:29 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Used to Be PC Magazine Article, morphed to NT/Novell BMR
Procedure
I'll put in a plug for my friend Wanda Prather. In the adsm.org archives
you should find a very nice procedure developed by Wanda. Perhaps she'll
post it here once more for those of us who missed it.
In general, the method is to install a bare bones OS from the distribution
CDs, configure it, install the TSM client, configure it, and restore the
backup on top of the new installation. This is an easy procedure to follow.
I'd like to see a side-by-side runoff between this and the BMR product to
get an idea of the time difference.
OK, don't like this idea? How about using Ghost to periodically snap an
image of your OS (or perhaps have a generic one with TSM installed ready to
go). Lose the disk? Ghost the image and do a restore from TSM to bring the
image up-to-date.
As for restoring your TSM server. That is very easy if you have three
things: a database backup, the devconfig.out file and the volhist.out file.
>From these three items, I can restore your TSM server in four hours of less
(very dependent on the size of the database: for very small databases,
you're probably looking at less than an hour, start to finish). The problem
with this is most of us never practice it. In my job I have the fortune of
getting to do this periodically (monthly) so I've gotten pretty confident so
to me it's easy. I recommend doing it the first time when you don't have
to. When you have to do it, nerves take over and the process is much
harder.
Kelly J. Lipp
Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.
PO Box 51313
Colorado Springs, CO 80949
[EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.storsol.com or www.storserver.com
(719)531-5926
Fax: (240)539-7175
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Coats, Jack
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 10:53 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: PC Magazine Enterprise Backup Article - NO MENTION OF TSM!!
W here's the Air Support?
Does anyone have a good recovery senario for NT and / or Novell?
I am going into a DR test soon and will be requrired to recover several
of each, including the TSM server! :(
Yep, it sounds like TSM did a fubar depending on a small vendor
to remain autonimous in the backup/restore/disaster recovery market.
Veritas has good products too. I have sold both TSM and Veritas
NetBackup. I still like TSM but it is a harder sell quite often.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Williams, Tim P {PBSG} [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 11:13 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: PC Magazine Enterprise Backup Article - NO MENTION OF
> TSM!! W here's the Air Support?
>
> I echo Kelly!
> Another marketing slip?:
> Tivoli used to provide Tivoli Data protection for workgroups (good for
> bare
> metal recovery for NT, windows, from
> what I heard). This product went unsupported....THEN the pitch for bare
> metal recovery was to use/buy...
> a pgm/product from The Kernel Group. From what I understand TKG was bought
> out by Veritas.
> SO, you have a Tivoli web site pitching a product that a competitor owns?
> marketing slip....
> there's a void here that Tivoli should fill, and fast! BARE METAL RECOVERY
> I sure would like to here what the marketing folks would have to say about
> this one as well....!!!
>
> Thanks Tim Williams
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kelly Lipp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 10:59 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: PC Magazine Enterprise Backup Article - NO MENTION OF TSM!!
> Where's the Air Support?
>
>
> http://www.pcmag.com/article/0,2997,s=1470&a=22041,00.asp
>
> Why in the world would an article like this appear and not have a single
> mention of TSM? Where is the crack marketing team? We need desperately
> to
> have air support on an issue like this. The IBM TSM folks who listen hear
> should send this up the pipe to the marketing folks. It is very hard to
> sell TSM when the only thing potential customers have heard about is full
> backups!
>
> This kept me up all night. Actually, it wasn't this it was some damn
> library/TSM interaction that I was trying to invent. I eat, sleep and
> breath TSM. Can I have some help please?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kelly J. Lipp
> Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.
> PO Box 51313
> Colorado Springs, CO 80949
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> www.storsol.com or www.storserver.com
> (719)531-5926
> Fax: (240)539-7175
