Thx a lot Dwight. That's exactly what I needed to know :)
--- "Cook, Dwight E" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, I've been working with TSM (ADSM) for about 6 > years now and you can call > me cheap but I never (personally) though DRM was > worth the money. We do > operate in a unique environment here so I shouldn't > say that DRM has no > place in the market, it is just that I was doing DRM > before DRM came out and > once it did I couldn't justify the cost just to > replace all that I had done > over the years. > We don't really run with copy storage pools... our > TSM servers are located > offsite to the production boxes that they backup so > backups are effectively > "offsite" as soon as they are created. We also deal > with so much data > across our 10 TSM servers on a daily basis that we > would have to make them > 20 if we were to copy all the data on a daily basis, > and that just isn't > going to happen. > Now what sort of disaster am I protecting against ? > Total loss of environment due to hardware failure. > Not really counting > fire, flood, water, etc... > If my actual server goes dead, AS LONG AS I HAVE MY > ATL, well at least the > tapes, I'm OK. > So to answer your question, almost yes. > You need your db backup (from tape, disk, > somewhere), you need definitions > of your data base & log files (I always allocate > them the same size as they > were), the device configuration file is nice (just > about necessary). > With that info you can get back your environment as > long as you have your > tapes. > > Dwight E. Cook > Software Application Engineer III > Science Applications International Corporation > 509 S. Boston Ave. Suit 220 > Tulsa, Oklahoma 74103-4606 > Office (918) 732-7109 > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sandra Ghaoui [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 5:43 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Recovering from a disaster .... > > > Hello everybody, > > I have one more question ... > is it possible to recover from a disaster just by > having the TSM database backup and our data backup > on > tapes? > I've been reading about the Disaster Recovery > Manager > and if I got it right, I would need to have copy > storage pools to recover from disaster? > > thx for helping ... > > Sandra > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness > http://health.yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com
