Shannon,

There is a function in AIX to do an OS level backup, or you can look at the
Sysback (TSM for System Backup and Recovery) tool, which is a bit more
sophisticated.  I know of people using both, with great success, for DR
situations.

Nick Cassimatis
email: nickpc AT us.ibm DOT com

----- Forwarded by Nicholas Cassimatis/Raleigh/IBM on 06/22/2006 09:26 AM
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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 06/22/2006
09:20:19 AM:

>
> It has been decided that we will move our ZOS mainframe TSM Server
> to an IBM pSeries 520Q AIX TSM server (instead of the Windows as was
> first decided) with a new Tape Library (IBM 3584 w/3592-E05 Jaguar
> drives).  I'm hoping the learning curve won't be too bad ...our TSM
> server has been on the mainframe since 10/17/1994 :~).  I will be
> using one of the third party applications to help me with the tape
> handling since this has always been handled through ZOS before now.
> An IBM business partner consultant (tech) will be doing the initial
> setup and since the TSM Server and Jaguar will be located offsite
> I'm anxious to hear what the new backup/offsite strategy will be.
> I can think of a few different strategies we may use but have not
> seen an actual plan yet.  In the past TSM has always been handled
> in-house so I'm not really sure what to expect from the consultant
> who will be setting the system up.
>
> One of the main things I can't figure out though is how will I be
> backing the new TSM server up?  Besides the database I mean.  With
> the mainframe I've just added the defined TSM environment disk
> volumes to the nightly MVS full-volume backups that rotate offsite.
> If there was ever a "disaster", we would have just restored the
> mainframe environment at the hot-site, which in turn would have
> restored the TSM environment.  As the client servers are restored by
> their administrators, they would use the offsite backup copies to
> restore the TSM client data.
>
> My question is...how do I backup the new TSM server environment on
> the pSeries box?  I know to do a daily TSM db & config backup but
> will I have to recreate the whole rest of the environment on a new
> server, then restore the db?  Or can I do a full backup of the
> server to cd or tape and just restore the whole TSM environment that way?

>
> Sorry if this seems like such a dumb question...please take into
> consideration that I'm of a mainframe mind-set and will have to
> start to adjust my whole way of thinking :~)
>
> Thank you,
> Shannon
> sbach AT mge DOT com