Tivoli Storage Manager for Windows: Administrator's Guide


Summary of Tivoli Disaster Recovery Manager Daily Tasks

This section summarizes the use of DRM during routine operations and during disaster recovery.

Setup
  1. License DRM
  2. Ensure the device configuration and volume history files exist.
  3. Back up the storage pools.
  4. Do a full backup the database (for example, a database snapshot backup).
  5. Define site-specific server recovery instructions.
  6. Describe priority client machines.
  7. Generate the disaster recovery plan.

Daily Preparation Operations
Day 1
  1. Back up client files.
  2. Back up the primary storage pools.
  3. Back up the database (for example, a database snapshot backup).
  4. Mark the backup volumes as unavailable to TSM.
  5. Send the backup volumes and disaster recovery plan file to the vault.
  6. Generate the disaster recovery plan.

Day 2

  1. Back up client files
  2. Back up the primary storage pools.
  3. Back up the database (for example, a database snapshot backup).
  4. Mark the backup volumes as unavailable to TSM.
  5. Send the backup volumes and disaster recovery plan file to the vault.
  6. Generate the disaster recovery plan.

Day 3

  1. Automatic storage pool reclamation processing occurs.
  2. Back up client files.
  3. Back up the primary storage pools.
  4. Back up the database (for example, a database snapshot backup).
  5. Send the backup volumes and a list of expired volumes to be reclaimed to the vault.
  6. The vault acknowledges receipt of the volumes sent on the previous day.
  7. Generate the disaster recovery plan.

Disaster and Recovery
Day 4

The server and the client machines are destroyed.

  1. Restore the server using the latest recovery plan.
  2. Identify the top priority client nodes at the disaster site.
  3. Restore client machine files from the copy storage pools.
  4. Restore the primary storage pools.
  5. Move database backup and copy storage pool volumes to the vault.

Daily Operations
Day 5
  1. Back up client files.
  2. Back up the primary storage pools.
  3. Back up the database (for example, a database snapshot backup).
  4. Send the backup volumes and a list of expired volumes to be reclaimed to the vault.
  5. Generate the disaster recovery plan.


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