Actually the problem was the server that we received from our Hot Site
provider. 
The server is an AIX 5.1 server with TSM version 5.2.1 installed. 
The problem was that the fibre attached disk that they gave us were
extreemely slow. I have a 48 GB database and formatting the database so
I could restore to it took 9 hours in itself, TSM was available in 12
hours. In a 24 hour DR Test this is not good.... 
 

As for the constant hot serer I was thinking of just NFS mounting the
seondary server and TSM Mirroring the database to that server. Would
that work?

Thanks again, 
Andrew 

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Kauffman, Tom
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 11:14 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Constant Hot TSM Server

Andrew --

Was the problem in recovering the TSM server, or recovering the
applications after the server recovery? What platform/version?

I've been recovering TSM (AIX) in about 4 to 6 hours for several years
now, and recovering SAP/R3 (Oracle) and MS-Exchange to most recent
available backups in 8 to 12 hours additional (R3 is now 1.2 TB).

As for the constant hot server --
1) Server itself
2) Library of sufficient size
3) Leased communication line large enough to handle the data traffic
        (This one will be the killer, depending on what you back up)
4) Increased administration costs

It would probably be much less expensive to work out corrections for
what failed.

Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Meadows, Andrew
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 9:12 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Constant Hot TSM Server

Hello everyone,
Ok we just returned from our DR Test and unfortunately it was a flop. No
big deal I learned something. 

Management now wants to know the cost involved at having TSM up
constantly at a hotsite. For some reason I cannot wrap my mind around
exactly what would be the best way to do this. Does anyone out there
currently do this and if so how?

Thanks in advance,
Andrew
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