Take them all. Seriously.

Unless these applications are a very small subset of your off-site tapes.

Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc

-----Original Message-----
From: Braich, Raminder [mailto:raminder.braich AT DAVEY DOT COM]
Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 2:15 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: DR test - which volumes to take


Hi,
  TSM Server is 4.1.2 (to be upgraded shortly), clients are 4.1.2 and 4.2.
We would be doing our Disaster Recovery test shortly. DRM has not been
implemented. The plan calls for to request courier deliver the necessary
tapes back and we take these tapes to the recovery site. We run SAP R/3 with
Oracle DB on WIN NT platform. All the systems are windows based. I have
identified the requirements to restore the TSM server as follows:
1. Device Confiuration file.
2. Server Options file.
3. Volume history file.
4. Output of q dbv f=d and q logv f=d.
5. TSM Database backup volume.
 The servers we are going to restore are going to be SAP R/3, Mail, File
Server and Oracle DB server(outside of SAP R/3).
We do not have collocation turned on. My question is how can I know which
tapes to request back from offsite to restore SAP R/3 which is backed up via
TDP for R/3, Exchange(Mail) which is backed up via TDP for Exchange and File
Server which is backed up incremental and Oracle DB server which is backed
up via TDP for Oracle. The requirement is to know all the tapes which are
going to be needed before hand. It has been implied that the courier is not
going to deliver the tapes to the recovery site (which sounds silly to me).

 What are other folks doing for this kind of situation? Are there any best
practices to follow.

Thanks,
Raminder Braich.