Administrator's Guide


Chapter 20. Using Tivoli Disaster Recovery Manager

Tivoli Disaster Recovery Manager (DRM), an optional feature of Tivoli Storage Manager, helps you to prepare a disaster recovery plan. If a disaster occurs, you can use the plan to recover your applications. You can recover at an alternate site, on replacement computer hardware, and with people who are not familiar with the applications. You can also use the disaster recovery plan for audits to certify the recoverability of the server.

Before using this chapter, you should be familiar with Chapter 19, Protecting and Recovering Your Server.

This chapter contains the following sections:

Concepts:
"Features of Tivoli Disaster Recovery Manager"
Tasks:
"Setting Up and Using Tivoli Disaster Recovery Manager"
Customizing Tivoli Disaster Recovery Manager
"Performing Routine Operations"
"Recovering Your Tivoli Disaster Recovery Manager System"
DRM User Scenarios
Disaster Recovery Plan Reference:

"Example Disaster Recovery Plan File"

In this chapter, most examples illustrate how to perform tasks by using the TSM command line interface. For information about the TSM commands, see Administrator's Reference, or issue the HELP command from the command line of a TSM administrative client.

All of the TSM commands can be performed from the administrative Web interface. For more information about using the administrative interface, see Quick Start.

Note:If you have used Disaster Recovery Manager (DRM) to create a disaster recovery plan file for an ADSM Version 3 Release 1 server, some names in that file may no longer be valid. After you have installed Tivoli Storage Manager Version 3 Release 7, you should back up your storage pools and database and create a new disaster recovery plan file. For the sequence and details of the procedure, see Summary of Tivoli Disaster Recovery Manager Use.

You can use a disaster recovery plan file and database backup created on an ADSM Version 3 Release 1 server to restore a Tivoli Storage Manager Version 3 Release 7 server.After the restore is complete, start the server by submitting the Tivoli Storage Manager server startup job with the UPGRADEDB parameter. Use the UPGRADEDB parameter only for the initial startup.


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