ADSM-L

Re: Disaster-Recovery

2000-05-09 00:19:26
Subject: Re: Disaster-Recovery
From: "Mr. Lindsay Morris" <lmorris AT OPENMIC DOT COM>
Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 00:19:26 -0400
You had these problems using DRM?  Or not?

"Cook, Dwight E" wrote:

> Now I haven't tried it lately (busy as a bee already) BUT
> the last time I was working on bringing up a recovery environment of my adsm
> server these were my thoughts and experiences...
> OK, I don't need my big DISKPOOL's until all the clients that were wiped out
> also, get restored...
> Soooo if I can just bring up an adsm environment with the DB, LOG, LIBRARY
> and all the LIBVOLS I should be good to go to restore clients...
> WRONG !! ! ! ! ! !
> I would go to start ADSM and it kept trying to bring on storage volumes that
> existed in the production environment
> and after some limit of errors was reached ('cause the diskpool volumes were
> not around) it aborted starting the server !
> OUCH !
>
> this is why I say get another machine and just try to restore your adsm
> environment... it is a LARGE learning experience...
>
> Dwight
>
> (and no you really don't need identical machines... but why make life harder
> than it has to be)
>
> > ----------
> > From:         Lawrence Clark[SMTP:Larry_Clark AT THRUWAY.STATE.NY DOT US]
> > Reply To:     ADSM: Dist Stor Manager
> > Sent:         Tuesday, May 09, 2000 1:59 PM
> > To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> > Subject:      Re: Disaster-Recovery
> >
> > I would think once your mksysb is restored you would have everything but
> > the database, assuming its all on rootvg.
> >
> > But is it true you do not need an identical machine?
> >
> > I'm wondering:
> >
> > If I have a ADSM server with both disk and cartridge based storage pools a
> > tape library  for storage pools and a second tape library at a remote site
> > for the copy pool, am I still set up for a rabid recovery?
> >
> > Wouldn't I need to?:
> > - have a server with similar disk allocation for the disk-based storage
> > pools
> > - have to remove all the copypool tapes from the second library, attach it
> > to a box at the remote site and define it as the tape library that was at
> > the primary site
> > - then mark the  volumes in the storage pools in the primary library as
> > destroyed. But then wouldn't ADSM look for the copypool volumes in the
> > (now missing) tape library?
> >
> > >>> bill.jolley-eds AT EDS DOT COM 05/09/00 02:50PM >>>
> > Once the mksysb, adsm db, devconfig,and volhist are restored, should'nt my
> > server code be
> > loaded?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Lynch, Rich [mailto:Lynch.Rich AT MBCO DOT COM]
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 2:23 PM
> > To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> > Subject: Re: Disaster-Recovery
> >
> >
> > you really dont need a Identical machine, you can use cloner (mksysb and a
> > cdrom) to boot up the recovery node and restore the node, even if its
> > totally different hardware. Weve done this at Sunguard and IBM DR site a
> > couple of times, using ADSM and 3590 drives to recover the rest of our
> > data
> > (SAP)
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jolley, Bill (Matlen Silver) [mailto:bill.jolley-eds AT EDS DOT COM]
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 1:12 PM
> > To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> > Subject: Re: Disaster-Recovery
> >
> >
> > Thanks, I been down this road before and no dice on identical machine.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Cook, Dwight E [mailto:cookde AT BP DOT COM]
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 12:56 PM
> > To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> > Subject: Re: Disaster-Recovery
> >
> >
> > Ok, I can't hand out documentation... (some of that lawyer stuff)
> > What I'd do (actually what I did)
> > tell them you need a test/recovery server identical to your existing
> > machine
> > perform a recovery... OH WHAT AN EYE OPENER IT WILL BE !
> > there will be so much stuff you'll need that you never even thought of !
> > then just make sure and set up jobs in your production environments that
> > will gather the info you've discovered you need to recover the
> > environment...
> > it will be ugly the first time but I thought it was rather fun... (ok, I'm
> > twisted)
> >
> > later,
> >         Dwight
> >
> > > ----------
> > > From:         Jolley, Bill (Matlen Silver)[SMTP:bill.jolley-eds AT EDS 
> > > DOT COM]
> >
> > > Reply To:     ADSM: Dist Stor Manager
> > > Sent:         Tuesday, May 09, 2000 10:09 AM
> > > To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> > > Subject:      Disaster-Recovery
> > >
> > > I have been asked for a procedure to recovery my adsm server 3.1.2.40 os
> > > level 4.3.1 (S70) atl 3494 3590 tape drives.
> > > Do anyone have a dr plan in place or where can I get dr info?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> >

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Mr. Lindsay Morris
Mr. Lindsay Morris
Certified: AIX,ADSM, TSM, HACMP,SP
Gresham Enterprise Storage
lmorris AT openmic DOT com
606-253-8000
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