Disaster recovery manager checklist

The following checklist can help you set up disaster recovery manager. Checklist Activity Plan for DRM Evaluate your disaster recovery requirements What are the business priorities for recovering your clients? Where is the recovery site? Is the recovery site hot, warm, or cold? Do the clients have connectivity to recovery server? Who are the system and Tivoli Storage Manager administrators? Will you need to return to the original site? Where are the offsite backups stored? How does the vault handle the backup media? How are the backups packaged or processed? Who provides the courier service? Evaluate the current storage pool backup implementation What primary storage pools are being backed up? When are the backups performed? Will the backups remain onsite or be sent offsite? Start Date End Date Status Responsible Backup Person Person

Checklist Activity Naming conventions for replacement volumes for primary storage pools Evaluate the current database backup implementation When are the backups performed? Backup purpose: offsite or onsite Will you use snapshot database backups or full plus incremental database backups? How long do you want to keep backup series? Verify that the values for copy storage pool and active-data pool REUSEDELAY and DRMDBBACKUPEXPIRED AYS are the same. If copy storage pools or active-data pools managed by DRM have different REUSEDELAY values, set the DRMDBBACKUPEXPIRED AYS value to the highest REUSEDELAY value. Determine which primary storage pools are to be managed by DRM Determine which copy storage pools are to be managed by DRM Offsite copy storage pools Determine which active-data pools are to be managed by DRM Start Date End Date Status Responsible Backup Person Person

Checklist Activity Start Date End Date Status Responsible Backup Person Person

Offsite active-data pools Where to Save the Recovery Plan File Locally: What is the recovery plan file pathname prefix? How will recovery plan files be made available at the recovery site? o Print and store offsite o Copy stored offsite o Copy sent/NFS to recovery site On Another Server: What server is to be used as the target server? What is the name of the target server's device class? How long do you want to keep recovery plan files? Determine where you want to create the user-specified recovery instructions What is the prefix of the instructions pathname? Analyze the sequence of steps related to the PREPARE command backup movement Document the flow of activities and timings

Checklist Activity Start Date End Date Status Responsible Backup Person Person

Sending of volumes offsite Return of empty volumes PREPARE timing Installation Receive and Install the Tivoli Storage Manager code License DRM REGISTER LICENSE or Update the server options Set DRM defaults Issue: SET DRMDBBACKUPEXPIRED AYS to define the database backup expiration SET DRMPRIMSTGPOOL to specify the DRM-managed primary storage pools SET DRMCOPYSTGPOOL to specify the DRM-managed copy storage pools SET DRMACTIVEDATASTGPO OL to specify the DRMmanaged active-data pools SET DRMPLANVPOSTFIX to specify a character to be appended to new storage pools SET DRMPLANPREFIX to specify the RPF prefix SET DRMINSTRPREFIX to specify the user instruction file prefix SET DRMNOTMOUNTABLENA

Checklist Activity ME to specify the default location for media to be sent offsite SET DRMCOURIERNAME to specify the default courier SET DRMVAULTNAME to specify the default vault SET DRMCMDFILENAME to specify the default file name to contain the commands specified with the CMD parameter on MOVE and QUERY DRMEDIA SET DRMCHECKLABEL to specify whether volume labels are verified when checked out by the MOVE DRMEDIA command SET DRMRPFEXPIREDAYS to specify a value for the frequency of RPF expiration (when plan files are stored on another server) Define the site-specific recovery instructions Identify: Target disaster recovery server location Target server software requirements Target server hardware requirements (storage devices) Tivoli Storage Manager administrator contact Courier name and telephone number Vault location and contact person Start Date End Date Status Responsible Backup Person Person

Checklist Activity Create: Enter the site-specific recovery instructions data into files created in the same path/HLQ as specified by SET DRMINSTRPREFIX Test disaster recovery manager Test the installation and customization QUERY DRMSTATUS to display the DRM setup Back up the active and inactive data that is in primary storage pools to copy storage pools. Copy the active data that is in primary storage pools to active-data pools. Back up the Tivoli Storage Manager database QUERY DRMEDIA to list the copy storage pool and activedata pool volumes MOVE DRMEDIA to move offsite PREPARE to create the recovery plan file Examine the recovery plan file created Test the recovery plan file break out awk script planexpl.awk VBScript procedure planexpl.vbs Start Date End Date Status Responsible Backup Person Person