Plan the tasks that are involved in recovering the server
and clients. It also presents scenarios of both procedures.
Procedure
Here are guidelines for recovering your server:
- Obtain the latest disaster recovery plan file.
- Break out the file to view, update, print, or run as macros
or scripts, for example, batch programs or batch files.
- Obtain the copy storage pool volumes and active-data pool
volumes from the vault.
- Locate a suitable replacement machine.
- If a mksysb or sysback was
completed that included a Tivoli® Storage
Manager server that
was already installed, restore an AIX® image
to your replacement machine.
- Restore the operating system
and Tivoli Storage
Manager
to your replacement machine.
- Restore the Windows operating system and Tivoli Storage
Manager to your
replacement machine. When you use the Tivoli Storage
Manager device driver,
ADSMSCSI, you must also start ADSMSCSI.
- Review the RECOVERY.SCRIPT.DISASTER.RECOVERY.MODE RECOVERY.SCRIPT.NORMAL.MODE
scripts because they are important for restoring the server to a point
where clients can be recovered (see Disaster recovery mode stanza).
Results
- Recovering the Clients:
- To recover clients, complete the following tasks:
- Get the following information by querying the recovered database:
- Client machines that are defined to Tivoli Storage
Manager, along with
their location and restore priority value
- The location of the boot recovery media
- Specific recovery instructions for the machine
- Hardware requirements for the machine
- With this information, restore the client machines. As a first
priority, check into the library the volumes that belong to active-data
pools. When a client initiates a restore attempt, storage volumes
within an active-data pool have a higher restore priority than standard primary
sequential storage pool volumes or copy storage pool volumes.