Tivoli Header

Administrator's Guide


Staying Prepared for a Disaster

This section provides an overview and a scenario of the tasks required to stay prepared for a disaster. The steps are performed by the onsite TSM administrator unless otherwise indicated.

  1. Record the following information in the RECOVERY.INSTRUCTIONS stanza source files:
  2. Store the following information in the database:
  3. Schedule automatic nightly backups to occur in the following order:
    1. Primary Storage Pools
    2. Database
  4. Daily, create a list of the previous night's database and storage pool backup volumes to be sent offsite:
    query drmedia * wherestate=mountable
    
    1. Check the volumes out of the library:
      move drmedia * wherestate=mountable
      
    2. Send the volumes offsite and record that the volumes were given to the courier:
      move drmedia * wherestate=notmountable
      
  5. Create a new recovery plan:
    prepare
    
  6. Copy the recovery plan file to a diskette to be given to the courier.
  7. Create a list of tapes that contain data that is no longer valid and that should be returned to the site:
    query drmedia * wherestate=vaultretrieve
    
  8. Give the courier the database and storage pool backup tapes, the recovery plan file diskette, and the list of volumes to be returned from the vault.
  9. The courier gives you any tapes that were on the previous day's return from the vault list.

    Update the state of these tapes and check them into the library:

    move drmedia * wherestate=courierretrieve cmdf=/drm/checkin.libvol
      cmd="checkin libvol libauto &vol  status=scratch"
    

    The volume records for the tapes that were in the COURIERRETRIEVE state are deleted from the database. The MOVE DRMEDIA command also generates the CHECKIN LIBVOL command for each tape processed in the file /drm/checkin.libvol. For example:

    checkin libvol libauto tape01 status=scratch
    checkin libvol libauto tape02 status=scratch
    ...
     
    
    Note:
    An administrator can run the MACRO command by specifying /drm/checkin.libvol.
    > dsmadmc -id=xxxxx -pa=yyyyyy MACRO /drm/checkin.libvol
    
  10. The courier takes the database and storage pool backup tapes, the recovery plan diskette, and the list of volumes to return from the vault.
  11. Call the vault and verify that the backup tapes arrived and are secure, and that the tapes to be returned to the site have been given to the courier.
  12. Set the location of the volumes sent to the vault:
    move drmedia * wherestate=courier
    
  13. Set the location of the volumes given to the courier by the vault:
    move drmedia * wherestate=vaultretrieve
    


[ Top of Page | Previous Page | Next Page | Table of Contents | Index ]