Thx a lot Dwight.
That's exactly what I needed to know
:)


--- "Cook, Dwight E" <DWIGHT.E.COOK AT SAIC DOT COM> wrote:
> OK, I've been working with TSM (ADSM) for about 6
> OK, I've been working with TSM (ADSM) for about 6
> years now and you can call
> me cheap but I never (personally) though DRM was
> worth the money.  We do
> operate in a unique environment here so I shouldn't
> say that DRM has no
> place in the market, it is just that I was doing DRM
> before DRM came out and
> once it did I couldn't justify the cost just to
> replace all that I had done
> over the years.
> We don't really run with copy storage pools... our
> TSM servers are located
> offsite to the production boxes that they backup so
> backups are effectively
> "offsite" as soon as they are created.  We also deal
> with so much data
> across our 10 TSM servers on a daily basis that we
> would have to make them
> 20 if we were to copy all the data on a daily basis,
> and that just isn't
> going to happen.
> Now what sort of disaster am I protecting against ?
> Total loss of environment due to hardware failure.
> Not really counting
> fire, flood, water, etc...
> If my actual server goes dead, AS LONG AS I HAVE MY
> ATL, well at least the
> tapes, I'm OK.
> So to answer your question, almost yes.
> You need your db backup (from tape, disk,
> somewhere), you need definitions
> of your data base & log files (I always allocate
> them the same size as they
> were), the device configuration file is nice (just
> about necessary).
> With that info you can get back your environment as
> long as you have your
> tapes.
>
> Dwight E. Cook
> Software Application Engineer III
> Science Applications International Corporation
> 509 S. Boston Ave.  Suit 220
> Tulsa, Oklahoma 74103-4606
> Office (918) 732-7109
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sandra Ghaoui [mailto:sandra_ghaoui AT yahoo DOT com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 5:43 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Recovering from a disaster ....
>
>
> Hello everybody,
>
> I have one more question ...
> is it possible to recover from a disaster just by
> having the TSM database backup and our data backup
> on
> tapes?
> I've been reading about the Disaster Recovery
> Manager
> and if I got it right, I would need to have copy
> storage pools to recover from disaster?
>
> thx for helping ...
>
> Sandra
>
>
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