Guess the first thing to do is to figure out which servers would need to be brought back in the event of a disaster. I back up several dozen servers but only a couple are needed in the event of a total meltdown in order to maintain company operational capability (the restore of these servers is mandated by contract). The next step is to figure out what is needed to bring each of the required servers back up to a running state quickly. In our case, the mksysb tapes are all that is required. In your case, there may be a mixed answer. The DRM part is pretty easy using TSM/DRM as TSM keeps track of which tapes are needed and also offers a "Prepare" file which has all the info needed to rebuild the TSM environement (along with a couple other files like the volume history and hardware stuff).
George Lesho AFC Enterprises Jane Bamberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 02/26/2002 12:21:59 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: (bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Re: Disaster Recovery Project HI, Thanks - and sorry I did not give specific details. I am AIX 4.3.3 with TSM 4.2.1.9 on and THIN SP2 node with a 3494 Tape library. We currently do not have DRM, and are using an offsite rotation to another building on our hospital campus. We have 2 Alpha ES40's, AIX sp frame with 7 nodes, 10 Netfinity servers, 23 NT servers, 1 linux, 2 proliants, 4 Solaris - as you can see - a real mixed bag - so any help would be appreciated. Jane %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Jane Bamberger IS Department Bassett Healthcare 607-547-4784 -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of George Lesho Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 12:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Disaster Recovery Project It would be easier to speak to this issue if you had mentioned your environment. I am in an AIX / TSM /DRM environment and we do mksysb tapes of our production servers and store them offsite. In addition, we allow TSM/DRM to decide which tapes are needed offsite in the event of a disaster. If a disaster occurred, we have contingency servers available at an offsite location (in case this location no longer exists) and we would ship copies of the DRM Prepare plan and associated recovery files along with all DRM (offsite tapes) to this location. We would then rebuild the servers (including the TSM Server) affected using mksysb tapes and then reapply production stuff (like Informix databases and critical apps) using the DRM media. George Lesho AFC Enterprises Jane Bamberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 02/26/2002 11:27:41 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: (bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Disaster Recovery Project Hi, I work for a hospital, and was just given the project of gathering all the information I can about disaster recovery. I would appreciate it if I could get any sites, information from any of you that have already gone down this road. I also would like to here any horror stories, or bad reviews about any of the major players in DRM. Do any of you use Tivoli DRM, Autovault, or any other third party software? I am pretty new to the list - so if this has already been hashed over in detail - let me know - and I'll go searching! Thanks, Jane %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Jane Bamberger IS Department Bassett Healthcare 607-547-4784
