Disaster Preparation

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Extended Edition facilitates even more detailed tracking of the additional copies of your backed-up, archived and space managed data that IBM Tivoli Storage Manager creates for safekeeping at an off site location. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Extended Edition also prepares and keeps an up-to-date text file with detailed recovery steps and automated computer-scripts--the "recovery plan". Should a disaster strike and destroy your storage and computers, this plan and the off-site copies of data will get your business back up and running quickly.

The IBM Tivoli Disaster Preparation solution is designed to get your critical business systems up and minimize recovery time from any type of disaster that might affect your on-site storage. It creates a disaster recovery plan and facilitates the tracking of off-site volumes. The recovery plan is integrated with and maintained on the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager server. It contains detailed recovery steps and automated computer scripts.

Core Functions:

• Automated generation of a customized server disaster recovery plan

• Detailed off-site recovery media management

• Inventory of machine information required to recover the server and its clients

• Centralized management of the disaster recovery process

• Executable scripts that assist in recovery automation

• Electronic vaulting of storage pool and database backups