Zoltan We have a setup as you describe.
Your devconfig will have the TARGET SERVER as a device-class: DEFINE DEVCLASS DEFAULT_SERVER_DEV DEVTYPE=SERVER MAXC....... DEFINE SERVER LAMPS_VBB44_S1 COMMMETHOD=TCPIP HLADDRESS=...... The volhist will show your Database-backup pointing to the right server/devclass: * Location for volume LAMPS_VBB44_S1.DBB.026972100 is: 'LAMPS_VBB44_S1' 2002/07/18 08:01:39 BACKUPFULL 2139 0 1 DEFAULT_SERVER_DEV LAMPS_VBB44_S1.DBB.026972100 With this information you can restore your TSM-DB. Just a "dsmserv restore db" will do the trick. I tested this once during a TSM course and it worked fine (as long as your target server is up). If you have DRM, you can also send your prepare-plan to the TARGET SERVER. This prepare plan can then be viewed by the html-interface on the TARGET SERVER. About Reconcile Volume: That's a (little buggy) tool that corrects errors in the administration of the virtual volumes. If a "BA STG" using server-to-server is interrupted, chances are high that the information on the target server is inconsistent with the info on the source server. Reconcile will make this info consistent. Regards Jeroen -----Original Message----- From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 10:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Server-to-Server DB backup and recovery We are working on setting up multiple TSM servers at offsite locations, to DR type processing. We plan to do server-to-server to handle both the DB backup and COPY POOLS. My question is (I have been digging through the manuals but haven't found a clear answer....): Lets say the SOURCE SERVER is destroyed and I now need to rebuild its DB from the backup that was made to the TARGET SERVER. How do I do this ? >From what I understand, everything the TARGET server receives looks like an ARCHIVE file/object to it. How do you recover the DB from this backup ? I kinda figured that I would first rebuild the SOURCE SERVER, including the definition to point to the TARGET SERVER. The books talk about doing a RECONCILE but when the phrases "delete objects from the target server that arent on the target server" appear, this did not sound like a good thing. Anyone tested this kind of scenario ? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------ Zoltan Forray Virginia Commonwealth University - University Computing Center e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - voice: 804-828-4807
