TSM & DR

2003-10-01 Thread Rowan O'Donoghue
All, The one thing I've always found to be a downside to TSM is the ability to easily identify the EXACT amount of tapes required to rebuild an environment to it's most current state. I have wrote SQL scripts previously which performs a query against each TSM client and it's filespaces for those

TSM/DR Query

2008-02-22 Thread Adrian Compton
Hi all We are running AIX on P570 to EMC SAN via fibre, and TS3310 Library with 3xLTO3 Drives with 80 slots. TSM version 5.3.5.2., AIX 5.3.2 Our ERP system runs on BAAN with an INFORMIX database. We use TDP to backup INFORMIX via onbar, and logical logs are backed up too as and when t

Re: TSM & DR

2003-10-01 Thread Richard Sims
>The one thing I've always found to be a downside to TSM is the ability to >easily identify the EXACT amount of tapes required to rebuild an >environment to it's most current state. ... That has been a Holy Grail quest for us customers. There remains no feasible way to get such a list from the pr

Re: TSM & DR

2003-10-01 Thread Rowan O'Donoghue
ms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 01/10/2003 17:35 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Re: TSM & DR >The one thing I've always found to

Re: TSM & DR

2003-10-01 Thread Steve Roder
Richard Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 01/10/2003 17:35 > Please respond to > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > cc > > Subject > Re:

Re: TSM & DR

2003-10-02 Thread Jin Bae Chi
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TSM DR restore query

2008-02-04 Thread Neil Sharp
Hello I was wondering if anybody could help or advise with the following question. I need to devise a solution to speed up DR for one of my customers. Currently their DR solution is the classic restore from TSM DB tape and then load all of the off site tapes into the DR library and then perform th

Re: TSM/DR Query

2008-02-22 Thread Thomas Denier
-Adrian Compton wrote: - >We use TDP to backup INFORMIX via onbar, and logical logs are >backed up too as and when they get full. This can be every 15 >minutes on a busy day, but have enough logs to last about 2 days >without backing them up. > >I would like some ideas on how to: > >1.

TSM DR vs Veritas IDR

2004-07-19 Thread CORP Rick Willmore
Hello All, I wanted some input concerning TSM's DR module and its capabilities. I used BMR many years ago as a DR solution and was planning on using it with TSM. I am currently working with a Veritas Backup Exec guy who is touting the IDR agent that Veritas has and was wondering what my option

TSM DR vs Veritas IDR

2004-07-21 Thread Henrik Wahlstedt
It depends what you want to do (BMR?) with your online images. I dont think of TSM backup images is an alternative to ASR or application X or whatever. I´m not sure you can use TSM backup images with ASR in disaster recovery senario. Can anyone shed some light here pls? With ASR you either choose

TSM DR Exercise Restore Ideas

2005-01-13 Thread Adam Sulis
Hi All: I am looking for suggestions to improve efficiency in our Backup strategy: Current: We backup 200 nodes to a DASD diskpool (large enough for one day's backup), then migrate to a VTS, with an offiste copy going to 3490 (uncollocated, of course). To improve day-to-day restores, we implement

Re: TSM DR restore query

2008-02-04 Thread Neil Sharp
the Idea below, never > tried, but take in consideration that if the TSM DR box is in a > different geographical location you'll have to use FCIP or Disk Frame > replication to gain access to those volumes. > > -Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[

Re: TSM DR restore query

2008-02-04 Thread Allen S. Rout
>> On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 17:32:26 +, Neil Sharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > The majority of the restore time is spent in formatting the DB and logs. > They are actually restoring from a fileclass backup of the TSM DB. I know > when they told me these times I found them hard to believe as well.

Re: TSM DR restore query

2008-02-04 Thread Richard Sims
On Feb 4, 2008, at 12:32 PM, Neil Sharp wrote: Thanks Charles for responding The majority of the restore time is spent in formatting the DB and logs. ... This gets back to the site decisions made as to the platform choice for the TSM server, when management makes an informed choice as to whic

Re: TSM DR restore query

2008-02-04 Thread Howard Coles
AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM DR restore query Thanks Charles for responding The majority of the restore time is spent in formatting the DB and logs. They are actually restoring from a fileclass backup of the TSM DB. I know when they told me these times I found them hard to be

Re: TSM DR restore query

2008-02-04 Thread David Longo
As far as the Idea below, never > tried, but take in consideration that if the TSM DR box is in a > different geographical location you'll have to use FCIP or Disk Frame > replication to gain access to those volumes. > > -Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Ma

Fw: TSM DR restore query

2008-02-04 Thread Nicholas Cassimatis
Neil, You'll want to read through this document: http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=663&context=SSGSG7&q1=replication&uid=swg21205074&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&lang=en There's a lot of things to think about with what you're looking at doing, and it covers things well. Nick Cassimatis - F

Re: TSM DR restore query

2008-02-04 Thread Hart, Charles A
ut take in consideration that if the TSM DR box is in a different geographical location you'll have to use FCIP or Disk Frame replication to gain access to those volumes. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neil Sharp Sent: Monday, February 04

Re: TSM DR restore query

2008-02-04 Thread Thomas Denier
-David Longo wrote: - >The majority of the restore time is spent in formatting the DB and >logs. They are actually restoring from a fileclass backup of the >TSM DB. I know when they told me these times I found them hard to >believe as well. Our DR plan is similar to the one described in e

Re: TSM DR restore query

2008-02-05 Thread Brian Matthias
On Behalf Of Neil Sharp Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 10:28 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM DR restore query Hello I was wondering if anybody could help or advise with the following question. I need to devise a solution to speed up DR for one of my customers. Currently their DR s

Re: TSM DR vs Veritas IDR

2004-07-19 Thread Muhammad Sadat
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Re: TSM DR vs Veritas IDR

2004-07-20 Thread Christian Svensson
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Re: TSM DR vs Veritas IDR

2004-07-20 Thread Daniel Sparrman
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Re: TSM DR vs Veritas IDR

2004-07-20 Thread Henrik Wahlstedt
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Re: TSM DR vs Veritas IDR

2004-07-20 Thread Muhammad Sadat
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Re: TSM DR vs Veritas IDR

2004-07-21 Thread Muhammad Sadat
- While taking image backups, You are not creating floppies or CDs or keeping CDs for entire organization. What if floppy goes bad? d- ASR is with Windows 2003 and Windows XP only. e- It is also a BMR procedure for these OSes. f- You are right about ASR. g- Remember TSM DR

Re: TSM DR Exercise Restore Ideas

2005-01-13 Thread P Baines
an you use now with full backups each week. Regards, Paul. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam Sulis Sent: Thursday 13 January 2005 16:56 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: TSM DR Exercise Restore Ideas Hi All: I am looking for sugg

Re: TSM DR Exercise Restore Ideas

2005-01-13 Thread David E Ehresman
We colocate onsite and offsite tapes for all of our important (in a DR sense) nodes. TSM runs on a dedicated machine with dedicated tape drives. Backups run at night. Thus the machine and tape drives are available all day for backup storagepool, migrate, and reclaim. Since reclaims are single-t

Re: TSM DR Exercise Restore Ideas

2005-01-13 Thread Adam Sulis
store STGPOOL to up-stage the tapes to disk, without tape contention, so everyone can start restores at the same time... -Original Message- From: David E Ehresman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 13 January, 2005 11:28 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: TSM DR Exercise Restore Ideas

Re: TSM DR Exercise Restore Ideas

2005-01-13 Thread Robert Clark
Subject IST.EDU> TSM DR Exercise Restore Ideas 01/13/2005 07:56 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"

Re: TSM DR Exercise Restore Ideas

2005-01-14 Thread David E Ehresman
>>Thanks for the idea - by collocating the offsite, does that mean that you eject one tape per node every day?<< Yes, for our "important" collocated nodes. That one tape per node contains the results of the most recent "reclaim" (actually a MOVE DATA) and the current nights backup. Our schedule

TSM, DR, and BMR (Linux Client)

2005-06-15 Thread Nick Laflamme
Is the "Disaster Recovery Strategies with Tivoli Storage Management" redbook from November of 2002 still the definitive work on using TSM for bare metal restorations of non-Windows clients? We've got a Linux client with a balky HDD, so we're trying to come up to speed on this aspect of TSM under a

Re: TSM, DR, and BMR (Linux Client)

2005-06-15 Thread Otto Schakenbos
yes we did works great. Create a bootable linux cd with the tsm client on it and a editable dsm.opt/dsm.sys. And make sure you know your grub/mkinitrd stuff. I have restored plenty machine to different hardware and filesystem with success. Just find a "create your own bootable linux cd" guide som

Sysback/6000 vs. mksysb for TSM DR restore

2002-03-07 Thread Kliewer, Vern
Hi, We have been using Sysback/6000 for years as our backup recovery tool for our AIX systems. We are now merging many of those servers, and the collection of non-AIX systems is proliferating so we are migrating to a TSM backup/recovery mechanism. The TSM server is an AIX based NSM box. I am in

Re: Sysback/6000 vs. mksysb for TSM DR restore

2002-03-07 Thread Miles Purdy
One quick thought, just install the needed drivers on the H70. Miles >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07-Mar-02 11:19:12 AM >>> Hi, We have been using Sysback/6000 for years as our backup recovery tool for our AIX systems. We are now merging many of those servers, and the collection of non-AIX systems is

TSM migration to TSM DR (to use Centera or DR450)

2004-06-23 Thread Justin Derrick
document from the existing archive system (IBM DB2 Content Manager OnDemand) and reload it into a brand new instance of the server, which was installed and configured to use TSM DR. This is unpalatable, at best. If anyone has any experience with this upgrade, and has information about avo