ADSM-L

Re: restore directly from copy pool tapes

2006-08-09 11:02:10
Subject: Re: restore directly from copy pool tapes
From: "Cargill, Bill" <BHCargill AT SNOPUD DOT COM>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 07:55:18 -0700
 What we have done is -  
  Purchased the DR component of TSM, which a somewhat automated script
to recover your TSM server and components. It also switches your offsite
tapes to onsite, destroys the onsite versions. You can then recover your
ap servers from TSM as you would normally. 

   Bill

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Richard Hammersley
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 7:40 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: restore directly from copy pool tapes

I'm working on a disaster recovery scenario where our TSM server (AIX)
and tape
library (3584)that has 90 LTO tapes in tape pools is destroyed and
several other
servers are destroyed.  We have approx. 85 copy pool tapes off site.

Our thought is to recreate the TSM server via mksysb, restore the TSM
database,
etc.  Then get several of our critical other systems up and restore
their data
by using the copy pool tapes and then recreate the tapes in the tape
pools in
the tape library.

How does one set up the recreated TSM server so that it does not think
that the
tape pool tapes are in the tape library ?

How does one restore from copy pool tapes ?

Are we going about this in a realistic way ?

Thank you.

Richard