Tivoli Storage Manager for Sun Solaris Administrator's Guide
This section summarizes the use of DRM during routine
operations and during disaster recovery.
- Setup
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- License DRM
- Ensure the device configuration and volume history files exist.
- Back up the storage pools.
- Do a full backup the database (for example, a database snapshot
backup).
- Define site-specific server recovery instructions.
- Describe priority client machines.
- Generate the disaster recovery plan.
- Daily Preparation Operations
- Day 1
- Back up client files.
- Back up the primary storage pools.
- Back up the database (for example, a database snapshot backup).
- Mark the backup volumes as unavailable to TSM.
- Send the backup volumes and disaster recovery plan file to the
vault.
- Generate the disaster recovery plan.
Day 2
- Back up client files
- Back up the primary storage pools.
- Back up the database (for example, a database snapshot backup).
- Mark the backup volumes as unavailable to TSM.
- Send the backup volumes and disaster recovery plan file to the
vault.
- Generate the disaster recovery plan.
Day 3
- Automatic storage pool reclamation processing occurs.
- Back up client files.
- Back up the primary storage pools.
- Back up the database (for example, a database snapshot backup).
- Send the backup volumes and a list of expired volumes to be reclaimed to
the vault.
- The vault acknowledges receipt of the volumes sent on the previous
day.
- Generate the disaster recovery plan.
- Disaster and Recovery
- Day 4
The server and the client machines are destroyed.
- Restore the server using the latest recovery plan.
- Identify the top priority client nodes at the disaster site.
- Restore client machine files from the copy storage pools.
- Restore the primary storage pools.
- Move database backup and copy storage pool volumes to the vault.
- Daily Operations
- Day 5
- Back up client files.
- Back up the primary storage pools.
- Back up the database (for example, a database snapshot backup).
- Send the backup volumes and a list of expired volumes to be reclaimed to
the vault.
- Generate the disaster recovery plan.
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