I have been working on a solution for this. We are switching from magstar tapes to DLT tapes in the near future. I have been looking into the option of BACKUPSETS. From what I can see, when I create a BACKUPSET and store these on separate DLT tapes (for DRP purposes), you should be able to setup the servers with a DLT unit attached , and be able to perform a restore (will be testing Bare Metal Restores when the unit comes in next week) of that server without waiting for the recreation of your TSM server. Of course you will still need to recreate the TSM server, DB restore, etc. to perform incremental restores (depending on the BACKUPSETS date), however this can be done while the DRP servers are being restored with the BACKUPSETS.
Any thoughts on this plan would be greatly appreciated. Joe Cascanette The Cumis Group -----Original Message----- From: Wu, Jie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 4:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: disaster recovery we are thinking of a better disaster recovery plan. Right now we have one TSM server. We back up db and primary stgpool and send the tapes to a vault for disaster recovery purpose. Based on our current environment, the recovery steps basicly would be: 1. aquire new hardware and install OS and TSM 2. apply TSM server recovery procedures, including formatting log, db volumes, db restore, etc. This plan takes relatively long time and we want to purchase a standby TSM server(with OS, TSM software, tape library, and everything) for a speedy recovery. The question is "do we still need to go through the TSM server recovery procudures?", which may take long time. Will server-to-server configuration helps? Thanks. JiePs - I would also like to say that my heart goes out to all those people directly and indirectly affected by yesterday's tragic events. Saddened beyond belief.
