There are all sorts of bells and whistles you can do with a DR scenario,
but you need to keep in mind that you want that TSM DR instance up and
operational as soon as possible. Here are some ideas:

1. Synchronous replication of your TSM database.
2. Electronic vaulting of copy pools to the library at the DR site.
3. Electronic vaulting of a second TSM database backup to the library at
the DR site.
4. Testing of DR processes on a regular basis--a very regular basis.
 
--
Mark Stapleton (mark.stapleton AT cdw DOT com)
CDW Berbee
System engineer
7145 Boone Avenue North, Suite 140
Brooklyn Park MN 55428-1511
763-592-5963
www.berbee.com
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf
> Of Bell, Charles (Chip)
> Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 9:02 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: [ADSM-L] Using TSM for On-Demand Disaster Recovery Data?
> 
> My boss is talking about us having a site that will host hardware for
> our
> core applications, including TSM. By what he is saying we want to have
> the
> most recent backup, and that's all, at the second site at any given
> time.
> This would include a handful of Windows clients, several AIX clients,
> one DB2
> client, and one SQL client. He's talking of also having a powered down
> TSM
> server on standby, but live backup storage there that would house the
> backups
> of the clients mentioned above. What is the best way to have your data
> to use
> on demand at another site, in the case that your central site becomes
a
> "smoking hole"? (How morbid!) Do you use 'active data pools'? Copy
> storage
> pools? It sounds like I need only a copy of active data at the second
> site...
> 
> 
> 
> God bless you!!!
> 
> Chip Bell
> Network Engineer I
> IBM Tivoli Certified Deployment Professional (ITSM)
> Baptist Health System
> Birmingham, AL
> 
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