No problem.

Rebuild (from mksysb) your TSM server.

Restore your TSM database (you'll need the current TSM device config
file and volume history file, with the device config file changed to
match the proper rmt names for the tape drives) --

OR -- we have a custo D/R device config file that defines the library as
type manual, not SCSI, with one tape drive and path. We update the path
to match the machine's tape drive definition for the first LTO drive.
Then we restore the TSM database, specifying the volume number, and
mount the tape manually.

Once TSM is up, delete the paths and re-define them to match the new
environment.

Then 'upd vol * acce=unav whereacce=reado,readw" to mark all the primary
tapes unavailable.

And 'upd vol * acce=reado whereacce=of' to mark all the off-site tapes
read-only.

File the library, if you haven't already done so, and then:
'audit libr <your name> checklabel=barcode'
'checkin libv <your library> search=yes stat=scr checklabel=barcode' to
check in any scratch tapes
'checkin libv <your library> search=yes stat=pri checklabel=barcode' to
check in all the data tapes.

Run the checkins in that order; if you do stat=pri first you won't have
any scratch tapes (we keep 20 initialized tapes off-site as available
scratch tapes to carry us through the first 48 hours of recovery).

Don't forget to disable or delete your scheduled events until you've got
most of your recovery done -- a lot of your archival data is going to
expire on you fairly quickly if you're recovering from an older database
backup.

We've been doing this for nearly seven years now, with no problems.

Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Richard Hammersley
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 10:40 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: restore directly from copy pool tapes

I'm working on a disaster recovery scenario where our TSM server (AIX)
and tape
library (3584)that has 90 LTO tapes in tape pools is destroyed and
several other
servers are destroyed.  We have approx. 85 copy pool tapes off site.

Our thought is to recreate the TSM server via mksysb, restore the TSM
database,
etc.  Then get several of our critical other systems up and restore
their data
by using the copy pool tapes and then recreate the tapes in the tape
pools in
the tape library.

How does one set up the recreated TSM server so that it does not think
that the
tape pool tapes are in the tape library ?

How does one restore from copy pool tapes ?

Are we going about this in a realistic way ?

Thank you.

Richard
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