Shannon, There is a function in AIX to do an OS level backup, or you can look at the Sysback (TSM for System Backup and Recovery) tool, which is a bit more sophisticated. I know of people using both, with great success, for DR situations.
Nick Cassimatis email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Forwarded by Nicholas Cassimatis/Raleigh/IBM on 06/22/2006 09:26 AM ----- "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]> wrote on 06/22/2006 09:20:19 AM: > > It has been decided that we will move our ZOS mainframe TSM Server > to an IBM pSeries 520Q AIX TSM server (instead of the Windows as was > first decided) with a new Tape Library (IBM 3584 w/3592-E05 Jaguar > drives). I'm hoping the learning curve won't be too bad ...our TSM > server has been on the mainframe since 10/17/1994 :~). I will be > using one of the third party applications to help me with the tape > handling since this has always been handled through ZOS before now. > An IBM business partner consultant (tech) will be doing the initial > setup and since the TSM Server and Jaguar will be located offsite > I'm anxious to hear what the new backup/offsite strategy will be. > I can think of a few different strategies we may use but have not > seen an actual plan yet. In the past TSM has always been handled > in-house so I'm not really sure what to expect from the consultant > who will be setting the system up. > > One of the main things I can't figure out though is how will I be > backing the new TSM server up? Besides the database I mean. With > the mainframe I've just added the defined TSM environment disk > volumes to the nightly MVS full-volume backups that rotate offsite. > If there was ever a "disaster", we would have just restored the > mainframe environment at the hot-site, which in turn would have > restored the TSM environment. As the client servers are restored by > their administrators, they would use the offsite backup copies to > restore the TSM client data. > > My question is...how do I backup the new TSM server environment on > the pSeries box? I know to do a daily TSM db & config backup but > will I have to recreate the whole rest of the environment on a new > server, then restore the db? Or can I do a full backup of the > server to cd or tape and just restore the whole TSM environment that way? > > Sorry if this seems like such a dumb question...please take into > consideration that I'm of a mainframe mind-set and will have to > start to adjust my whole way of thinking :~) > > Thank you, > Shannon > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
