As soon as your Database is restored, and your copy pool tapes' status has
been updated back to readwrite, then your clients should be able to begin
pulling back data to their respective platforms. ADSM will know to use these
offsite tapes, once all the onsite volumes have had their access changed to
unavailable. You will want to turn off any schedules you may have that
change the volume access of copy pool tapes from readwrite to offsite. No
need to recover primary storage volumes, as far as customer access to
retrieval of their data is concerned.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Chamberlain [SMTP:ken.chamberlain AT UTORONTO DOT CA]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 1998 9:27 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Disaster recovery procedures
>
> ADSM guru's:
>
> We have been backing up our unix systems to ADSM incrementally and
> archiving
> our databases into ADSM primary pools daily.  All disk pools are fully
> migrated to tape pools daily.  We also backup all our primary pools to
> copy
> pools and move the copy pool volumes offsite.  We also backup the ADSM
> database to 3590 daily and move this tape offsite.
>
> We wish to simulate a disaster without disturbing the ADSM setup too much!
>
> We intend to restore the ADSM database from the 3590 backup, then mark all
> primary volumes (disk and tape) unavailable and check in all (or perhaps
> selected) copy pool volumes.  Using this restored ADSM database and
> copypool
> volumes only we wish to restore selected  unix files and retrieve from
> archive a database.
>
> My question is: Will a restore/retrieve command use copy pool volumes if
> primary pool volumes are unavailable or do we have to "restore stgpool"
> all
> the primary pools prior issuing restore/retrieve commands for unix files.
> If we have to issue "restore stgpool" that may take a while as our
> database
> archive primary pool is over 900Gb in size!  Perhaps "restore volume" for
> selected volumes (created recently in VOLHIST) would suffice?
>
> Any gotchas to watch out for?
>
>
> Ken Chamberlain
> University of Toronto
> Phone:(416) 978-1582
> Fax:  (416) 971-2085
> E-mail: ken.chamberlain AT utoronto DOT ca