Michael...would Fingerhut be willing to share the document and
script???  I am in involved with a GUIDE project called
Enterprise Recovery of Data...this project is co-chaired by Andy
Raibeck of Connecticut Mutual and Lynn Darsh of Chemical Bank.
We are completely an introductory white paper on disaster
recovery of distributed data...and we are working on a 2nd
white paper that will be ADSM hints and tips...it will be
a compilation of many procedures/recommendations/etc from
many ADSM users as well as IBM.  This sounds like good material
to include.

If this is ok, please send them to me along with a statement
that its ok to publish these through Guide International.

THanks...Greg Tevis, ADSM Technical Support
gtevis AT vnet.ibm DOT com

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From:         Michael Bryant <michael.bryant AT CCMAIL.FINGERHUT DOT COM>
Subject:      Re: AIX Disaster Recovery
To:           Multiple recipients of list ADSM-L <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>

Kevin wrote:
>Trying to work through the testing and documenting in the recovery of an AIX
>client. Current thinking is to use Sysback to backup the operating environment
>and ADSM to restore the rest. Does anyone have a process in place that can
share
>it with us? Would appreciate any response. Thanks.
>Kevin Balmer
>Providian Corp.

I am having the SUN people documenting the process they have created which they
tell me will also work on the AIX environment.  The gist of this process is that
we perform a ufsbackup, nightly, of the special blocked files to a directory on
the client.  Then ADSM does an incremental backup of the client.

This gives the SUN people enough so that if they lose the hard drive on the
client, then they execute a script that:
    1)  defines the file systems
    2) copies the system software from another client and fires off the restore
    3) performs a ufsrestore of the special blocked files
    4) reboots the machine

They have tested this script and it worked.  As you can tell I don't DO unix,
yet!!  This process should be applicable to AIX.