Hello All! I believe that I am a little confused as to what/how DR Manager is and works? I have looked at the manual, but things still don't make sense to me and I didn't want to wait until everything was configured due to the fact that I might be having a DR drill in December and we haven't even begun moving things to the new environment.
1a. I first looked at define machine and it appears as if I have to define the TSM server and all nodes that I wish to restore at a DR site? 1b. Then you define the machine node association which seems as if you just associate all of the nodes to the tsm server that you wish to restore from. Why is this needed? You would think that this is naturally assumed since this is where it has been backed up/defined... 1c. Define Recovery Media - not quite sure what this is... There is a type of boot or other? I'm not quite sure what this section is for? It's not very clear! 1d. Define Media Machine Association - Still confused about this portion as well. When it is stated that the recovery media is to: Select the name of the recovery media to be associated with one or more machines. Do they mean TSM server machines or node machines? 2. DRM Offsite Recovery Media - Currently we just take all of our tapes that have been vaulted to the DR site that were created before the DBB that we use for our DR. I'm not quite sure what the commands portion of this querying does? Why/what would you specify here? 3a. Create Recovery Plan File - Where do companies usually store this file? When you go down to DR, where do you begin? I mean, what is the starting point? Where do you begin? 3b. Do you use a dbbackup or a dbsnapshot? Why would you ever want to use a snapshot? You first have to restore the entire db before moving on... 4. How often do you create the plan and how long do you retain the plans? I am sorry for my ignorance, but I am moving to a brand new TSM AIX 5.2.2.5 environment from the mainframe and everything is very cloudy. Currently we just restore our TSM envrironment by restoring our DB & recovery log volumes and starting up the tsm server, but now everything has changed and I'm not really sure how to restore this new environment or even where to begin. If anyone is willing to share a step by step plan/process of your recovery I would appreciate it! It might give me a direction on how/where this will be accomplished. Thank you in advance! ******************************** Joni Moyer Highmark Storage Systems Work:(717)302-6603 Fax:(717)302-5974 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ********************************
