Roger,
You could put your documentation as well as the server and client
binaries, special tape drivers and an ssh client on a USB drive to plug
into your laptop and have everything immediately available during
recovery.

Encrypt everything on the thumb drive with TrueCrypt (or some other
encryption product) to protect your secrets.  You can get 4GB thumb
drives for less than 50 bucks each.  Get a few to periodically update
and rotate with your offsite media or give to each designated recovery
person and let them keep it up to date.

Save the paper to write down your pizza and doughnut preferences during
your recovery efforts.

Cheers,
Neil Strand
Storage Engineer - Legg Mason
Baltimore, MD.
(410) 580-7491
Whatever you can do or believe you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic.


-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Richard Sims
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 7:33 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Where can I find the downloadable TSM 5.5
documentation?

On Jan 16, 2008, at 12:10 AM, Roger Deschner wrote:

> .
> It's all at the usual location,
> http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/index.jsp
>
> What I want to know is where can I buy a paper copy? I don't have the
> patience to print them, and I really want a printed copy of the v5.5
> "Administrator's Guide".
>

Roger -

IBM doesn't offer purchasable paper copies of the more common manuals.
If you go to the IBM Publications Center,
  http://www.elink.ibmlink.ibm.com/publications/servlet/pbi.wss?CTY=US
and there choose "Search for publications"
and search on  "tivoli storage manager" "administrator's guide"
you'll see that the Order column is devoid of checkboxes for most of
them, in that grabbing PDFs and using those as a reference is so easy
that it's not economically worthwhile to go through printing.

The advantages of PDF - quick publication, electronic storage, rapid
content searching, bookmarking, environmental savings, etc. - render
printed versions largely obsolete.  For DR purposes, a tailored set of
manuals could readily be copied to a CD-R, if a site did not want to
depend upon accessibility of the IBM site in a disaster.

   Richard Sims

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