Hi there,

Currently, I am working on designing the recovery procedure of ADSM server,
in case:

1.   The database is corrupted.
2.   The ADSM server is down and is unaccessable substantial period of
time.

and would like to get some experienced suggestions from the ADSM community.

We are running ADSM server version 2.1.0.10 on AIX 3.2.5 server with STK
9710 DLT Tape library connected to a SUN Solaris machine, running ACSLS
software, with drives mounted to the ADSM server.  The database and the
disk backup pools are defined on a sepertely connected hard drives, almost
30GB of capacity, with a seperate volume group, vgadsm.

For the first case, i.e, if the database is corrupted, what are the good
practices?  I have gone through the Admin Guide and, Chapter 14, discusses
in detail some options for recovery.  The Point-in-time recovery along with
volume and device configuration backups seems an obvious choice, but any
feedback would be greatly appreciated.

For the second case, i.e. if the server is down and cannot be repaired,
suppose I have a backup server, what are the steps in recovering to the
other server.  I would install the server software on the backup server, I
will hook up the hard drives which are connected to the source server and
are still working, recreate the volume group vgadsm and other filesystems,
and then how would I proceed with the recovery?  Should I use the database
backups or should I use export server tapes, discussed in Chapter 13 of the
Admin Guide?

Any suggestion regarding both these questions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Naveed.