Hello,

We have a very similar set up to you.
We run ADSM 3.1.2.20 on OS390 2.4.
We use DFSMSRMM to manage the movement of tapes from our site to our offsite
vault.
I have written some small REXX EXECs to synchronize ADSM with DFSMSRMM as we
use STK silos for our tape storage.
When tapes go offsite in the morning these REXXs update the location of the
tapes in the copy pool in ADSM to indicate that the tapes are now offsite
and not mountable.
A full database copy is done daily after all our primary storage pool
backups to our copy pool tapes to go offsite. An incremental is then done
just before the online day begins. One copy is sent offsite and another full
copy is made for onsite use.

If you require any more info drop me a line on the address below.

Thanks,

Kuli.

Kulbinder Toora
01384 296191 x3498
e-mail - Kulbinder.toora AT meb.co DOT uk
NPEC (National Power Energy Company)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Agnew, Doug [SMTP:dagnew AT CHARLOTTEPIPE DOT COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 3:39 PM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Re: Offsite Vaulting/Disaster Recovery
>
> Rob,
>
> I have some scripts I wrote for ADSM on AIX that manage my tape movement.
> Basically, my scripts check out all copy pool tapes and a database backup
> (I
> use a full database backup daily) and also check out some specific primary
> pool tapes that I am not duplicating).  I tag all these tapes with a
> location (or access if copy pool) of 'offsite'.  I can then generate a
> list
> of tapes that ADSM thinks are offsite, compare that to the previous days
> list and generate a set of movements to and from offsite storage.  Also,
> once a week, I change the reclaim percentages on my copy pools to a low
> number to force my daily incremental copies to consolidate.  This frees up
> a
> number of tapes and is run in the afternoon AFTER the latest set of copy
> tapes goes offsite.
>
> Just some ideas that may give you a direction to go in.  Scripts are
> available upon request.
>
> Doug Agnew
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Schwartz [mailto:Rschwartz AT BOSCOVS DOT COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 10:31 AM
> Subject: Offsite Vaulting/Disaster Recovery
>
>
> We are in the process of creating a disaster recovery plan for our OS/390
> and several NT servers.  Our ADSM server (3.1.2.0) is running on OS/390.
> Has anyone established an offsite vaulting and disaster recovery plan NOT
> using the Disaster Recovery Manager (DRM) feature of ADSM.  I have done
> some
> work setting up a COPY storage pool but have encountered vaulting issues
> relating to full backups versus incrementals.  I think that it may be
> easier
> (but more expensive!!) to use DRM but I need to determine if it can be
> done
> without DRM.
>
> Thanks for your help...
>
> Rob Schwartz
> Boscov's Dept Store
> Reading PA
> 610-929-7387    rschwartz AT boscovs DOT com
>
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