Tivoli Disaster Recovery Manager provides the following features:
With DRM you can create a recovery plan file to help you to recover your Tivoli Storage Manager server and clients. You can store the recovery plan file locally in a file system, or on a virtual volume on another server (see Using Virtual Volumes to Store Data on Another Server). You can store your storage pool and database backups at an offsite vault or as virtual volumes on another server.
The recovery plan file contains the following information:
For more information, see Creating and Storing the Disaster Recovery Plan and The Disaster Recovery Plan.
To recover from a disaster, you must know the location of offsite recovery media. DRM treats your backup volumes as logical collections that are moved offsite and returned onsite for reuse or disposal. DRM helps you to determine which volumes to move, tracks the location of the volumes and, when appropriate, expires the database backup series.
DRM offsite recovery media management can work with or without a tape management product.
DRM lets you save the following client information in the database:
You can use DRM QUERY commands to determine: