I played around with this a lot in the past but don't have a large use for it currently. To do a recovery, you get a basic environment up and running with your definitions over to your remote server and then just do a dsmserv restore db as normal using the device class of the remote server and the volser which was assigned during the backup. Trick is that you have to get a base server built up again for the initial communication. Once I started play'n around with it, everything went smooth but you really need to have a little test server set up that you can blow away and rebuild many times to ensure you have a "good feel" for what all is going on. If you are worried about getting to an initial point to be able to do a restore db using a virtual volume from the remote system you can always backup your db to a flat file and then just use the straight tsm client to back that flat file up to the remote server, that works fine also but requires the local disk space and the transfer time to back it up. For a while I was backing up a TSM server's data base in Houston to a remote server in Chicago using virtual volumes, worked fine but we have since shut down the environment in Houston.
later, Dwight E. Cook Software Application Engineer III Science Applications International Corporation 509 S. Boston Ave. Suite 220 Tulsa, Oklahoma 74103-4606 Office (918) 732-7109 -----Original Message----- From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 3:12 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
