janichols6
ADSM.ORG Member
Ideas needed for DR testing.
We do not have an offsite facility or a proper test server, but the powers that be want to know what it will take to recover our TSM server.
Here is the dilemma I ran into already, we are running on AIX, TSM5.5 with 5 instances.
I got another AIX LPAR with a different IP address, loaded the OS of my existing TSM server and zoned the existing tape library to the test lpar.
I had to do a crossdefine to the Production Library Manager so I could use the Tape Drives.
I did a database restore for the first instance on the test lpar which was successful, but when I shut it down it also shutdown the Production Instance. I'm thinking the crossdefine did me in, but it's the only way to get to the drives.
Can you rename the instances in the devconfig and dsmserv files before you do the restore? Or will I need to have the Production instances down while I recover on the Test lpar, then rename them and then bring the Production instances back online? - that will be a big pain.
We do not have an offsite facility or a proper test server, but the powers that be want to know what it will take to recover our TSM server.
Here is the dilemma I ran into already, we are running on AIX, TSM5.5 with 5 instances.
I got another AIX LPAR with a different IP address, loaded the OS of my existing TSM server and zoned the existing tape library to the test lpar.
I had to do a crossdefine to the Production Library Manager so I could use the Tape Drives.
I did a database restore for the first instance on the test lpar which was successful, but when I shut it down it also shutdown the Production Instance. I'm thinking the crossdefine did me in, but it's the only way to get to the drives.
Can you rename the instances in the devconfig and dsmserv files before you do the restore? Or will I need to have the Production instances down while I recover on the Test lpar, then rename them and then bring the Production instances back online? - that will be a big pain.