We have different areas of responsibility here with TSM. The help desk people set up the save's of the clients and the servers. They also perform any restores, as needed. The operations gal and I are to make sure that we can recover the TSM server in case of drastic damage to it.
We did have a consultant come in and spend a few days. Mostly with the operations gal and I. In the slack time he helped the help desk with some issues they had. Primary mission of this consultants visit was to help the operations gal and I with getting the TSM saves set up. First few hours were spent in front of a whiteboard with the consultant questioning us how we wanted to do this. We did NOT want to have any of the client and/or server data being rotated from disk storage pools to tape storage pools. No archival, etc. The help desk people would never have to ask us to get a tape or have one from some tape library automatically mounted to restore any data to a client or server. Repeat, the use of tape was just in case damage occurred to the TSM server itself. We have two weeks of tapes - week 1 and week 2. Week one starts the backup stg backuppool lto_3581_week# on Sunday afternoon on 'fresh' tapes. And then these are moved offsite. That takes 4.02 3581 tapes. Then Monday-Thursday night's backup (same command) take less than a tape each night. The next morning, each tape is moved to offsite storage. We also run the backup db devclass=3581dev type=full scratch=yes wait=no on a daily basis and send that tape offsite as well. Starting on Friday we blank out the previous weeks tapes and start over. As far as training here goes, it can be pretty good at times. For a year or two it was locked down tight but it's pretty much back to normal again. I manage to get offsite to a conference about every other year. My other duties, like many of you, are numerous. Domino/Notes administrator, iSeries administrator (we have four of them. Some of you may know them by other names: AS/400's, i5's, etc), and so on. And I cover for the operations gal who left for two weeks in Hawaii just a week after the consultant left. Rob Berendt -- Group Dekko Services, LLC Dept 01.073 PO Box 2000 Dock 108 6928N 400E Kendallville, IN 46755 http://www.dekko.com
