Tivoli Storage Manager for Windows Administrator's Guide


Specifying Recovery Instructions for Your Site

The disaster recovery plan includes instructions that you create. Enter your instructions in flat files that have the following names:

Note:The files created for the recovery instructions must be physical sequential files.

RECOVERY.INSTRUCTIONS.GENERAL
Include information such as administrator names, telephone numbers, and location of passwords. For example:
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| Recovery Instructions for TSM Server ACMESRV on system ZEUS                    |
| Joe Smith (wk 002-000-1111 hm 002-003-0000):  primary system programmer        |
| Sally Doe (wk 002-000-1112 hm 002-005-0000):  primary recovery administrator   |
| Jane Smith (wk 002-000-1113 hm 002-004-0000): responsible manager              |
|                                                                                |
|Security Considerations:                                                        |
|Joe Smith has the password for the Admin ID ACMEADM. If Joe is unavailable,     |
|you need to either issue SET AUTHENTICATION OFF or define a new                 |
|administrative user ID at the replacement TSM server console.                   |
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RECOVERY.INSTRUCTIONS.OFFSITE
Include information such as the offsite vault location, courier's name, and telephone numbers. For example:
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| Our offsite vault location is Ironvault, Safetown, Az.                         |
| The phone number is 1-800-000-0008. You need to contact them directly          |
| to authorize release of the tapes to the courier.                              |
| Our courier's name is Fred Harvey.  You can contact him at 1-800-444-0000.     |
| Since our vault is so far away, be sure to give the courier a list             |
| of both the database backup and copy storage pool volumes required. Fred       |
| is committed to returning these volumes to us in less than 12 hours.           |
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RECOVERY.INSTRUCTIONS.INSTALL
Include information about server installation and the location of installation volumes and the license number. For example:
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| You will need to reinstall the TSM server and administrative                   |
| client after installing the Windows operating system.                          |
| The install volume for the TSM server is INS001. If that is lost, you          |
| will need to contact Copy4You Software, at 1-800-000-0000, and obtain          |
| a new copy. Another possibility is the local IBM Branch office at 555-7777.    |
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A sample file, recinsti.txt, is shipped with DRM. You may want to copy recinsti.txt into your RECOVERY.INSTRUCTIONS.INSTALL file to supplement your installation- specific instructions.

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| - Obtain a workstation with at least the following:                            |
|                                                                                |
|   o 16MB of memory (32MB recommended)                                          |
|   o CD-ROM device                                                              |
|                                                                                |
| - Install Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 or later                                    |
|                                                                                |
| - Install the TSM Server and TSM Administrative Client                         |
|                                                                                |
|   o It is recommended that you have at least 100MB of disk storage             |
|   o The installation directory to specify on the Setup Type screen             |
|     can be found in the SERVER.REQUIREMENTS stanza within the                  |
|     disaster recovery plan file                                                |
|   o It is recommended that the TSM Server be brought up to the                 |
|     most current maintenance level. If this is not possible, then              |
|     the minimum acceptable maintenance level is the level used                 |
|     to create the disaster recovery plan file. The level used to               |
|     create the disaster recovery plan file can be found in the                 |
|     PLANFILE.DESCRIPTION stanza within the disaster recovery plan              |
|     file.                                                                      |
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RECOVERY.INSTRUCTIONS.DATABASE
Include information about how to recover the database and about how much hardware space requirements. For example:
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| You will need to find replacement disk space for the server database. We       |
| have an agreement with Joe Replace that in the event of a disaster, he         |
| will provide us with disk space.                                               |
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RECOVERY.INSTRUCTIONS.STGPOOL
Include information on primary storage pool recovery instructions. For example:
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| Do not worry about the archive storage pools during this disaster recovery.    |
| Focus on migration and backup storage pools.                                   |
| The most important storage pool is XYZZZZ.                                     |
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