David,

        I just went thru a disaster recovery test where we recovered our ADSM
server at a disaster recovery facility.  The server recovery went well.
After building the AIX 4.1.4 system and formatting the ADSM database and
recovery log volumes, it took 50 minutes to restore our 10 GB database
which I thought was great. (Note - I'd highly recommend the DRM feature
of ADSM - helped a lot with the recovery process).  After bringing the
ADSM server  up, we went ahead and marked our onsite storage pools as
'destroyed' and then tried to recover a client from the offsite storage
pool.  While this did work, we ran in to a problem where ADSM would
generate messages (ANR1421W and ANS4118I)  on the client and server
indicating that the onsite pool had been destroyed.  I believe these
messages came up for every file who's onsite copy was in a disk
storagepool as of the time of the database backup that was restored.  I
don't think they came up for files where the onsite copy was already on
tape (Note - I had taken a full backup the night before for the client
we were testing so most of the files were in the disk storagepool when
the backup storagepool was run).  While the data restored okay from the
offsite storage pool, ADSM paused between every file being restored and
this slowed the restore process down to a crawl.  APAR IX67738 was
opened yesterday on this problem.

Tim Pittson
tpittson AT himail.hcc DOT com
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>From:  David Ong[SMTP:david AT BABYONG.NSC DOT COM]
>Sent:  Thursday, April 17, 1997 9:03 PM
>To:    ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject:       Restoring Directly From Copy Pool
>
>Hello ADSMers,
>I am working on a disaster recovery plan which involves backing up our
>primary storage pool to a copy storage pool the volumes of which the
>volumes will be off-sited along with the database backup tapes. The
>documentation in the Admin Guide talks about restoring the original storage
>pool from the copy pool in a recovery situation. My question is this. In a
>real disaster, I don't want to waste the time to recreate the primary pool.
>I just want to start recovering data for client nodes as soon as possible.
>Does anybody know if this is possible and has anybody actually done it?
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Have a nice day or whatever's left of it.
>
>David Ong
>National Semiconductor Corp.
>