For recovery of the ADSM server we will use DRM to prepare a recovery plan.
since I am not yet familiar with DRM, I'm wondering if not having the volumes 
marked offsite will cause problems monitoring their status. I did a cursory 
review of the docs and defined machines, included the hardware for the AIX 
machines in the ADSM database and generated a disaster recovery doc using the 
prepare command and noticed that the two  copypool volumes that held todays 
data  were marked as destroyed in the scripts. 

My thinking was that if we implemented a second tape library at a second site 
to hold the copypool volumes, I would eliminate changing their status to 
offsite each day and having them available for automatic reclamation. For my 
script based method that would wotk fine, but DRM has certain assumptions built 
into it, one of which is that all equipment used with the server is 'onsite' 
and destroyed in a disaster senario. 

Larry Clark
NYS Thruway Authority

>>> Nick Cassimatis <nickpc AT US.IBM DOT COM> 02/10/00 09:02AM >>>
>Yes, but what if you do not do the drmedia commands?

I'd say, with having the second library live, that you probably don't need
DRM.  However, what precautions are you taking in case your ADSM Server
dies?

Nick Cassimatis
nickpc AT us.ibm DOT com 

If you don't have the time to do it right the first time, where will you
find the time to do it again?