If you ask 10 TSM admins chances are,  you will get 10 different answers.
Here's a great Redbook that has a nice picture of the Wheel of Life that  I
primary use it as reference.
It shows a general recommended series of operations and sequence.

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/SG245416/wwhelp/wwhimpl/java/html/wwhelp.htm
Chapter 12: Scheduling, There is Wheel of life section.

Sung Y. Lee
"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 05/24/2005
09:18:20 AM:

> Oh Wise Ones,
>
> What order do you run the following processes in each day?
>
> Backup Storage Pools
> Backup TSM Db
> Backup Volhist
> Migrate diskpools to tape
> Move drmedia
> Run Drm Prepare
>
> I am asking because when we do our DR tests It always seems that I end
> up having to restore to a point in time 1 day earlier than I think I
> should. I am preparing to rework the daily schedule to try to avoid this
> and wanted to know how everyone else does it.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> cory
>
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