Administrator's Guide


Using Tivoli Disaster Recovery Manager without a Tape Management Product

The following scenario demonstrates the use of the MOVE DRMEDIA and PREPARE commands to generate an up-to-date disaster recovery plan for disaster recovery preparation.

  1. TSM server DSMSERV contains the backups for the FileRight Company accounts receivable application.

  2. For availability management, FileRight uses database mirroring and copy storage pools whose volumes are kept onsite.

  3. For disaster recovery management, FileRight uses database backup and copy storage pool whose volumes are immediately moved offsite after creation.

  4. To prepare for a possible disaster, the administrator records the following site specific recovery steps in the INSTR.GENERAL stanza source file:

  5. The administrator defines the following policies for managing their volumes for disaster recovery protection:

  6. The following DRM system values are used by DRM Offsite Recovery Media processing:
     set drmcopystgpool drcopypool
     
     set drmdbbackupexpiredays 30
     
     set drmnotmountablename dock/031
     
     set drmcouriername hsiaovan
     
     set drmvaultname  ironvault
     
     set drmcmdfilename tsm.drm.exec.cmds
    


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