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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 restoring the base server system from boot media or, if boot media is unavailable, about server installation and the location of installation volumes. For example:
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| Most likely you will not need to reinstall the TSM server and                  |
| administrative clients because we use                                          |
| mksysb to backup the rootvg volume group, and the TSM server code and          |
| configuration files exist in this group.                                       |
| However, if you cannot do a mksysb restore of the base server system,          |
| and instead have to start with a fresh AIX build, you may need                 |
| to add TSM server code to that AIX 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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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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