Marc,

Part of our routine to send tapes offsite includes "BACKUP STGPOOL
DISKDIRPOOL COPYPOOL" which send the DIRMC storage pool offsite.

Part of the restoration procedure includes "RESTORE STGPOOL DISKDIRPOOL"

Milton Johnson
Voice: 210-677-6728
Email: milton.johnson AT citigroup DOT com



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From: Marc Levitan [mailto:marc.levitan AT PFPC DOT COM]
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 8:13 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Move nodedata - what is moved first


What would happen if there was a site disaster and the data was only on the
disk which is no longer available to perform restores? I guess what I am
asking is, without sending DIRMC off-site, can you recover from a site
disaster?





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Peter,

> servers . Currently, our main file server has data on over 200 3590
> tapes therefore a directory restore can potentially have hours added
> to the process directly related to tape mounts.

Is the directory information you referring about related to Windows systems?
You should use the DIRMC client option to store all your directory
information in a DISK based storage pool (DISK or FILE), so that it remains
on faster quicker access media for restore purposes. (Dont let that stuff go
to tape for the reasons you have outlined below.)

The DIRMC client option is not really required for Unix based systems, as
the database has enough space to store that information.

...deon
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