Tivoli Storage Manager for Sun Solaris 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.           |
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RECOVERY.INSTRUCTIONS.INSTALL
Include information about server installation and the location of installation volumes. For example:
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|You will need to reinstall the TSM server and administrative                    |
|client after installing the Sun Solaris 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.                                                                       |
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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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