You do not have to restore the primary storage pool at all.  We don't intend
to because we don't want to spend all that time and effort doing it and we
might not have enough scratch tapes for it.  The only exception in our case
is our storage pool that's for directories.  I will restore that first just
to avoid a lot of tape mounts for those files.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Chissell [SMTP:phil.chissell AT NATPOWER DOT COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 1999 5:40 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Primary Storage Pool Recovery
>
> All
>
> We are undertaking a mock disaster recovery test (ADSM V3 on NT).
>
> After retrieving the copy storage pool tapes from offsite, I believe the
> process is to mark all our primary tape volumes as "destroyed" and then
> issue a "restore stgpool" command to rebuild our primary storage pool.
>
> My question is this; is it possible to start restoring clients directly
> from the copy storage pool or do we HAVE to restore the primary storage
> pool first.  The issue being restoring the storage pool can potentially
> take a long time before we can even begin to restore any clients.
>
> Cheers for any help.
>
> Regards
>
> Phil
>
> Phil Chissell
> ISD Infrastructure Development
> National Power plc
> Windmill Hill Business Park
> Whitehill Way
> Swindon
> Wilts. SN5 6PB
> UK
>
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