There are multiple options for this scenario.

If the systems are small enough, and you have plenty of tapes, you can
produce "backupset" tapes of each system.  A backupset is a self contained
tape that allows the client to restore without needing the TSM server.  We
use a backupset for one of our critical systems.

The idea of a separate offsite pool with the critical systems on it works
just fine.  One thing that we had to set up was a move data script to keep
all the data for the offsite tapes down to just a few tapes.

One thing I must caution you on DR tests:  Keep it real.  We have one group
that creates a "special" set of tapes just for their DR test.  This makes
their test very successful, but I am very afraid of an actual disaster.  In
the case of an actual disaster they will not have time to create "special"
tapes, and thus they will be recovering under totally different
circumstances.  I am fearful that they will be unable to meet their SLA in
an actual disaster.  My group is using standard processes against the
standard set of tapes that are sent offsite every day.




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Hi all,

We are going to SunGard in November and we are interested in rebuilding our
TSM server and 3 nodes that are in our environment.  We do not want to take
our entire OFFSITE tape pool with us to Sungard.  Is there a way that we
can easily create a seperate storage pool for just the 3 nodes we are
interested in recovering + at the same time leave our current OFFSITE
storage pool in place?

Any ideas of what other folks are doing in this scenario would be greatly
appreciated.

Thanks,
James Choate