That is long restore ... 2 years. :)

Jeff Bach

> -----Original Message-----
> From: <James> <healy> [SMTP:James.Healy2 AT AXACS DOT COM]
> Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 10:02 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Re: Disaster Recovery...Has anyone really successfully done
> testing?
>
> I've been successfully restoring at DR using TSM for two years. The TSM db
> recovery of your size should take only about 15 minutes. Check how long
> its
> taking to back it up, it should take just a little longer to recover if
> you
> have the same hardware.
> You really don't restore the tape storage pools just bring you copy
> storage
> pools to the test.
> I too see the same problems you see though. My clients are complaining
> that
> we have to vault so many tapes because we keep all the versions for DR
> also.
> I wish there was a way to tell DRM to only keep maybe 3 of the latest
> versions of my on-site pools.
> Its one of my projects this year to find a way to do Disaster Recovery
> using less tape. maybe backupsets is the answer.
>
>
>
>
> "Cinda Mullen" <cmullen AT ASCENSIONHEALTH DOT ORG>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 
> 01/14/2002
> 10:36:35 AM
>
> Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
>
> Sent by:  "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
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> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> cc:
>
> Subject:  Disaster Recovery...Has anyone really successfully done testing?
>
>
> Good Morning All....
>
> We are running TSM on OS/390 (Version 4.1.4).  We have approximately 200
> NT/UNIX/NETWARE servers and are backing our daily incremental stgpools
> to copypools for offsite storage.
>
> It appears the copypools don't just keep the active versions of data,
> they keep everything....we currently have 190+  Storage Tek 9840s
> offsite for TSM.  If we go to the hotsite to do Disaster Recovery
> Testing, how do we restore these storage pools in a reasonable amount of
> time?  Has anyone successfully performed Disaster Recovery?
>
> Our TSM database is 10GB so, I'm also guessing it will take quite a
> while to get that restored???  Any ideas, thoughts?
>
> Is anyone using Backupsets instead of copypools for DR?
>
> Thanks!!
> Cinda Mullen
> Sr. Systems Programmer
> Ascension Health ISD
> cmullen AT ascensionhealth DOT org
>
>
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