i wonder if AutoVault might do you some good. It's a DRM replacment - does clever things like vault primary pools (sounds dumb, but they might be 7-year archives just taking up valualbe slots), and vaults backup sets, etc. www.coderelief.com
--------------------------------- Mr. Lindsay Morris CEO, Servergraph www.servergraph.com 859-253-8000 ofc 425-988-8478 fax > -----Original Message----- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Bill Mansfield > Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 9:40 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Recovering from a disaster .... > > > No copy storage pools... how do you handle damaged tapes? > > > > _____________________________ > William Mansfield > Senior Consultant > Solution Technology, Inc > > > > > > "Cook, Dwight E" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 04/30/2002 07:48 AM > Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > cc: > Subject: Re: Recovering from a disaster .... > > > 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 >
