HI, As far as I know, your answer is no. Any tape that is part of a TSM storage group is virtually useless to you without TSM. You can use remote tape drives on systems through the sysback tools to do the backups, but these would be external to TSM.
What we do is a little different. We have two sites (one DR and one production). We have a TSM server at both. We offsite much of our data (or will be soon) electronically to the DR TSM server. Additionally, the AIX servers place thier sysback images on the DR TSM server instead of the prod TSM server (as in on the file system). This way, in a disaster, the sysback images are all available to start recoveries (with or without the prod TSM server up and running). These images get backed up nightly on the DR TSM server (as part of its filesystem backups). Michael Wheelock Integris Health From: Rozmiarek, Bill Sent: Wed 3/17/2004 11:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM for System Backup and Recovery We currently use sysback (it's an older version when it was still called sysback) with stand alone tape drives to backup our server's images. We also have TSM in our environment. TSM spits out a very nice Disaster Recovery log every night which tells us exactly what tapes are needed to restore our system should a disaster happen. In order to integrate our Sysback image tapes into our DR Pull list, I would like to do the following: - Backup our system images using TSM for System Backup and Recovery (the new sysback with TSM hooks). These images would be dumped directly to a TSM tape storage group. Co-location (or whatever it's called) would be turned on so that only one client would write to an individual tape. - These tapes would immediately be marked read-only and sent off site. - Some SELECTing would be done so that we know which tape belonged to each system. - When it came time for Disaster Recovery testing or a real disaster, we would pull all of our tapes and begin to restore our systems. - I do not want to wait until my TSM server is up and running before I can begin to restore my other AIX systerms. So I would like to take the tapes that TSM wrote as part of the TSM for System Backup and Recovery and put them in stand-alone drives to recover the other systems. Here's my real question: If a SYSBACK image is saved to a TSM tape storage group instead of to a stand-alone tape drive, can the system be recovered without TSM up and running? Thanks. -Bill Bill Rozmiarek http://GatheredTogether.org <http://gatheredtogether.org/> - Ministries Helping Ministries ************************************************************************** The information transmitted herewith is sensitive information intended only for use by the individual or entity to which it is addressed. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, retransmission, dissemination, distribution, copying or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from your computer.
