[Networker] Tips for doing a DR at SunGard

Greetings everyone;

I am scheduled to do a DR test at SunGard on January 27th. This is afirst for me. I am told I will have an LTO-3 tape library connected toa Sun box with Solaris 10. My production NetWorker server is 7.4 on aSun T2000 with Solaris 10. I am scheduled to recover data from onlyone client, a Linux box and I will have another Linux box at mydisposal at SunGard for this exercise. I am heading over to SunGard ina couple of hours to do a pre-flight check, but they said they won'tallow me to log onto any of the test hardware until the day of thetest, which is not good from my standpoint. I also will not have thebenefit of my production server's media database and CFI for thistest. Fortunately, the data is all straight text files, no databasestuff and its only one client; the one that handles our University'smost important data. For this test, I also only need to recover asubset of the files in order to verify that they can be read, but I amgoing to try to talk the others on the DR team to let me recover thefull set of data so I can get an idea of how long the recover processwould take in a real DR situation. The entire set of data is roughly1TB.

Since I only have one client I need to recover, I am thinking I wouldjust put the tapes in the SunGard tape library and start scanning themin order. For this particular client, I have an automated script thatemails me daily the output of "mminfo -v " and I get that output bothon my work email and my gmail.com address and I also automaticallyarchive the results on a web site at work and on a google groups website for safe keeping. I do the same for the daily bootstrap.Unfortunately, I do not have the means to do a test of this before theSunGard DR test; we lack the disk space.

So if anyone has any tips on how I should go about doing this recoverat SunGard, please let me know.


Thanks

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Stan Horwitz
Temple University
Enterprise Systems Group
stan AT temple DOT edu

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