Step 1 -- determine which servers are 'critical' and which are 'nice to
have'; find out what the expectations are for getting the 'critical' back on
line. For example, our requirement is to recover to within 12 hours of the
outage in less than 48 hours. Make sure your backup/archive/off-site
rotation strategy matches. Ours doesn't :-(
Step 2 -- work out what you need to rebuild from scratch. For the SP frame,
you'll need to rebuild the CWS (mksysb tape); then delete all nodes and
frames, and re-acquire frames and nodes (your hot-site will NOT match your
configuration, trust me!). Then re-customize and boot/install from your node
images on disk. Back when we had an SP frame, I kept the adsm node image on
the CWS disk and had a savevg of the volume group.
I don't know about Alpha or Solaris -- there are some nice writeups from IBM
on 'bare metal restore' for NT, and AIX recovers nicely with mksysb
(complicated, on the SP frame by the nature of the beast).
You might want to take a look at the archives here
http://msgs.adsm.org/cgi-bin/get/adsm-current.html for other suggestions.
FWIW -- we were an SP frame shop, with TSM on a wide node, and ran several
successful D/R tests. Now we have 6 RS/6000 systems, two MS-Exchange
servers, and a Rightfax system covered on our hot-site contract. We do not
use DRM or third party tools; just in-house scripts and well-written
procedures.
Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jane Bamberger [mailto:jane.bamberger AT BASSETT DOT ORG]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 1:22 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: Disaster Recovery Project
>
>
> HI,
>
> Thanks - and sorry I did not give specific details.
>
> I am AIX 4.3.3 with TSM 4.2.1.9 on and THIN SP2 node with a 3494 Tape
> library. We currently do not have DRM, and are using an
> offsite rotation to
> another building on our hospital campus. We have 2 Alpha
> ES40's, AIX sp
> frame with 7 nodes, 10 Netfinity servers, 23 NT servers, 1 linux, 2
> proliants, 4 Solaris - as you can see - a real mixed bag - so
> any help would
> be appreciated.
>
> Jane
>
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> Jane Bamberger
> IS Department
> Bassett Healthcare
> 607-547-4784
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On
> Behalf Of
> George Lesho
> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 12:56 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: Disaster Recovery Project
>
>
> It would be easier to speak to this issue if you had mentioned your
> environment. I am in an AIX / TSM /DRM environment and we do
> mksysb tapes
> of our production servers and store them offsite. In
> addition, we allow
> TSM/DRM to decide which tapes are needed offsite in the event of a
> disaster. If a disaster occurred, we have contingency servers
> available at
> an offsite location (in case this location no longer exists)
> and we would
> ship copies of the DRM Prepare plan and associated recovery
> files along
> with all DRM (offsite tapes) to this location. We would then
> rebuild the
> servers (including the TSM Server) affected using mksysb
> tapes and then
> reapply production stuff (like Informix databases and
> critical apps) using
> the DRM media.
>
> George Lesho
> AFC Enterprises
>
>
>
>
>
> Jane Bamberger <jane.bamberger AT BASSETT DOT ORG>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on
> 02/26/2002
> 11:27:41 AM
>
> Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
>
> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
>
>
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> cc: (bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC)
> Fax to:
> Subject: Disaster Recovery Project
>
> Hi,
>
> I work for a hospital, and was just given the project of
> gathering all the
> information I can about disaster recovery. I would appreciate
> it if I could
> get any sites, information from any of you that have already
> gone down this
> road.
>
> I also would like to here any horror stories, or bad reviews
> about any of
> the major players in DRM. Do any of you use Tivoli DRM,
> Autovault, or any
> other third party software?
>
> I am pretty new to the list - so if this has already been
> hashed over in
> detail - let me know - and I'll go searching!
>
> Thanks,
> Jane
>
>
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> Jane Bamberger
> IS Department
> Bassett Healthcare
> 607-547-4784
>
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