It would be easier to speak to this issue if you had mentioned your
environment.  I am in an AIX / TSM /DRM environment and we do mksysb tapes
of our production servers and store them offsite. In addition, we allow
TSM/DRM to decide which tapes are needed offsite in the event of a
disaster. If a disaster occurred, we have contingency servers available at
an offsite location (in case this location no longer exists) and we would
ship copies of the DRM Prepare plan and associated recovery files along
with all DRM (offsite tapes) to this location. We would then rebuild the
servers (including the TSM Server) affected using mksysb tapes and then
reapply production stuff (like Informix databases and critical apps) using
the DRM media.

George Lesho
AFC Enterprises





Jane Bamberger <jane.bamberger AT BASSETT DOT ORG>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 02/26/2002
11:27:41 AM

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Subject:  Disaster Recovery Project

Hi,

I work for a hospital, and was just given the project of gathering all the
information I can about disaster recovery. I would appreciate it if I could
get any sites, information from any of you that have already gone down this
road.

I also would like to here any horror stories, or bad reviews about any of
the major players in DRM. Do any of you use Tivoli DRM, Autovault, or any
other third party software?

I am pretty new to the list - so if this has already been hashed over in
detail - let me know - and I'll go searching!

Thanks,
Jane


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Jane Bamberger
IS Department
Bassett Healthcare
607-547-4784