i wonder if AutoVault might do you some good.  It's a DRM replacment -  does
clever things like vault primary pools (sounds dumb, but they might be
7-year archives just taking up valualbe slots), and vaults backup sets, etc.
www.coderelief.com

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Mr. Lindsay Morris
Mr. Lindsay Morris
CEO, Servergraph
www.servergraph.com
859-253-8000 ofc
425-988-8478 fax


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf Of
> Bill Mansfield
> Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 9:40 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: Recovering from a disaster ....
>
>
> No copy storage pools...  how do you handle damaged tapes?
>
>
>
> _____________________________
> William Mansfield
> Senior Consultant
> Solution Technology, Inc
>
>
>
>
>
> "Cook, Dwight E" <DWIGHT.E.COOK AT SAIC DOT COM>
> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
> 04/30/2002 07:48 AM
> Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"
>
>
>         To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>         cc:
>         Subject:        Re: Recovering from a disaster ....
>
>
> 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
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>
>
> -----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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