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.           |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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.    |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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.                                               |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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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