Theresa --
1) I don't know if this is your plan, but the best bet is to boot from CD,
select the maintenance mode shell, and select "install from system backup".
Then select your mksysb tape as the install device. This will 'clone' your
system, adding device drivers from the CD as required.
2) Shouldn't need to do this, the Atape driver should be on the mksysb
3) I'm presuming here that you have vg backups with all data excluded
(/etc/exclude.<vgname> with /* as the only content) and are recovering the
vg, lv, and filesystem definitions only. (I run the savevg to a
/DR/backup.<vgname> every time the vg changes, then re-run the mksysb).
4) You'll need to change your device config file to match the device name of
your tape drive (and manual library, if that's what you'll use). I dump the
current device config and volume history to floppy daily and ship it off
with the TSM database backup.
5) ? (We've never done this -- 'export node' that is . . .)
6) Only required if your mksysb is out of date or you're trying to be
current on user passwords. We just reset the user passwords as required.
7) Should be able to restore this via TSM
After you get TSM up you'll need to re-do your tape drive and library
definitions -- TSM won't update the database from the device config file
used for the database recovery.
Hope this helps a bit --
Good luck, and please let us know how it turns out.
Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Theresa Sarver [mailto:tsarver.IFMC AT SDPS DOT ORG]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 3:35 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Disaster Recovery Test
>
>
> Hi all;
>
> I'm getting ready to preform a Disaster Recovery test (with
> Sungard) and I was wondering if anyone would be interested in
> reviewing my steps and letting me know of anything I may be
> missing. - Thanks in advance!
>
> THINGS TO TAKE:
> mksysb (and savevgs)
> AIX 4.3.3 cdroms
> Atape drivers
> DLT tape drivers
> Application Software (Stars/Sql_backtrack/OBSI)
> Database software (Sybase)
> Tivoli Software
> All license Information
>
> Steps to Restore:
> 1) Restore mksysb
> 2) Install ATAPE/DLT drivers
> 3) Restore savevgs
> 4) Restore TSM database
> 5) Restore "Export Node" data
> 6) Restore OS data (not sure if this step is necessary?)
> 7) Install Application/Database Software (not sure if this
> step is necessary?)
> 8) Restore Sybase [raw] data
> 9) Check network connectivity
>
> Also, our environment has 2 internal DLT tape drives, I will
> only have 1 external DLT drive during the test - will Tivoli
> have a problem [restoring] with this?
>
> Any advice or comments would be much appreciated - thanks again!
>
> Have a happy holidays;
> Theresa
>
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