Phil,

Just use the copy pool once you have 'destroyed' the primary pool.
You would only use restore stgpool if you were recovering back to site after
a
real disaster......



Phil Chissell wrote:

> All
>
> We are undertaking a mock disaster recovery test (ADSM V3 on NT).
>
> After retrieving the copy storage pool tapes from offsite, I believe the
> process is to mark all our primary tape volumes as "destroyed" and then
> issue a "restore stgpool" command to rebuild our primary storage pool.
>
> My question is this; is it possible to start restoring clients directly
> from the copy storage pool or do we HAVE to restore the primary storage
> pool first.  The issue being restoring the storage pool can potentially
> take a long time before we can even begin to restore any clients.
>
> Cheers for any help.
>
> Regards
>
> Phil
>
> Phil Chissell
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