License your DR server with EMC as DR for no charge, they will issue licenses 
where you say its a DR only server. 
I assume EMC do it. Legato did it in the past.

Load good copies of the mm and res directorys. Index as well if you can.

If you cant do indexes then use the process in Powerlink  esg90153 to do 
saveset recovery of indexes and rebuild them.
This allows you to just recover indexes for production servers as tapes  with 
indexes on arrive at DR. Of course you will need a media index that knows about 
the tapes and an up to date res. This can be be a good copy from production or 
one using mmrecov on a bootstrap from the tapes at DR.

You can then use this to test DR recovery.
Regards

Kit



opopanax wrote:
> Hi
> 
>     We have a backup server in our primary setup that is connected to a 
> 4-drive LTO3 tape library and a newly configured Virtual library. In DR we 
> have a backup server connected to a 2-drive LTO3 tape library. The VTL is 
> visible and configured on DR backup server as well. We will be shifting all 
> our daily/weekly backups to VTL in a short while. Since the same VTL is 
> available on both backup servers, we want the index files & media db in the 
> primary server be migrated to DR backup server so that restoration can be 
> done in case the primary server goes down. Is there a way to do this?
> 
>     We know that to make index files be available on another backup server, 
> you have to scan the media and recreate the index. We also tried shutting 
> down the services on both servers and copying the index and media db folders. 
> the second approach works but is there a better way to make this happen?
> 
> Backup servers are running Networker 7.5 on Windows 2003 Server.
> 
> Thanks
> opopanax.


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