Easy as pie. When you restore the TSM data base, it wil show that your primary tape pool tapes are still "readwrite", and your offsite tapes are "offsite". But, your primary pool tapes are actually burned up, and your copypool tapes have presumably been retrieved from your vault and are now at your recovery site.
Look at the parms for the "update vol" command - All you have to do is enter "update vol * wherestgpool=primarytapepoolname access=unavailable" (or DESTROYED) "update vol * wherestgpool=copypoolname access=readonly" Now check your copypool tapes into your library (if you have one at your recovery site), status=PRIVATE. When you start a restore on one of your clients, TSM checks to see what tape is needed. When it sees the primarypool tape is marked UNAVAILABLE, it will automatically switch over and mount the copypool tape instead. The gotcha: At your offsite location, your tape drives may not have the same /dev/rmtx names they did at your primary location. BUT, when you reload your TSM data base, the drive & path definitions get reloaded as well. So you may have a bit of patching to do before you can start your restores. Wanda Prather "I/O, I/O, It's all about I/O" -(me) -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Hammersley Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 10:40 AM To: [email protected] Subject: restore directly from copy pool tapes I'm working on a disaster recovery scenario where our TSM server (AIX) and tape library (3584)that has 90 LTO tapes in tape pools is destroyed and several other servers are destroyed. We have approx. 85 copy pool tapes off site. Our thought is to recreate the TSM server via mksysb, restore the TSM database, etc. Then get several of our critical other systems up and restore their data by using the copy pool tapes and then recreate the tapes in the tape pools in the tape library. How does one set up the recreated TSM server so that it does not think that the tape pool tapes are in the tape library ? How does one restore from copy pool tapes ? Are we going about this in a realistic way ? Thank you. Richard
