I agree.  If you mark your primary volumes as "Destroyed", ADSM will do
restores using the copy pool (remember you have to mark those volumes as
READ ONLY or READWRITE, instead of offsite, for ADSM to mount them.)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hilton Tina [SMTP:HiltonT AT TCE DOT COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 1999 8:33 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Re: Primary Storage Pool Recovery
>
> 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
> >
> > Tel:  +44 (0)1793 894237
> > Fax: +44 (0)1793 894891
> > MailTo:phil.chissell AT natpower DOT com