Joni,
I'm assuming when you say "DRM" you are referring to TSM's Disaster Recovery Manager. If so, I have a few suggestions:
Make sure you use the "move drmedia" command to eject copy pool tapes and update their location (courier, vault, etc).
Create an admin schedule that backs up disk pools to copy pools every 2 hours or so. It may seem like overkill but it reduces the chance of losing data in the event of a disk pool crash. Saves time in the morning too since you won't have to wait for the entire disk pool to be copied.
Backup the database after you eject your copy pool tapes. Then eject it and put it with your copy pool tapes going offsite.
Create your DRM plan after you eject your copy pool tapes. If you don't your DRM plan will show the tapes still in the library. Make sure you send the plan offsite also. Consider emailing a copy to your home email address if you have one.
You shouldn't delete the volume history for you database backups. DRM will do this for you. Just issue the "SET DRMDBBACKUPEXPIREDAYS" command for the number of days you want them retained.
Rick Saylor Austin Community College
At 06:36 AM 1/25/2005, you wrote:
Hello All!
I know this has been discussed many times within this group, but I tried to find the exact discussions and couldn't find exactly what I was looking for so I am sorry for repeating this question. I was just wondering what the "best practice" is for daily admin tasks when using DRM? Here are my thoughts so far, but could you please let me know what your opinions are?
Backup client data Backup disk pools to copy pools Backup sequential pools to copy pools Backup the database Complete a database snapshot for offsite purposes Backup volume history Backup devconfig Create DRMPlan Eject copypool tapes from the library and send to the vault Delete volume history for database snapshots Migrate data from the disk storage pools Run reclamations Expire inventory Query volumes to be brought onsite from the vault
Also, do you script the whole admin process? I have noticed that many sites create daily scripts to run and use wait=yes so that backups complete before the dbb, etc., so any examples would be appreciated as well. Thank you in advance!
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