Well on AIX, I restore my base AIX server from a Sysback tape, and then restore 
my TSM DB.  I was just wondering if folks who run their server on linux did 
something similar.  Apparently no one runs their server on linux or else they 
don't DR.

David

>>> "Allen S. Rout" <asr AT UFL DOT EDU> 6/15/2009 8:45 PM >>>
>> On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:34:20 -0400, David E Ehresman <deehre01 AT LOUISVILLE 
>> DOT EDU> said:


> If you are running TSM Server on a linux box,

on _any_ box...

> how do you do Disaster Recovery?  Do you install a fresh copy of
> linux, reinstall the TSM rpms, and then do the TSM DB restore?

Exactly.

You need to understand how you got from zero to "I have a system
capable of running TSM version [yadda]".  With that, and your magical
few pieces of information (volhist, devconfig, DB backup, etc) you can
go on to reconstitute.

We, of all groups, need to be able to restore our application with
only the specific minimum files and data.

If you have a site disaster, you're going to need a BMR filestore to
be up before you can resurrect your backup server?  Eeek!



- Allen S. Rout
- Not opinionated at all.