Administrator's Guide

Features of Disaster Recovery Manager

Disaster Recovery Manager provides the following features:

• Automated generation of a server disaster recovery plan
• Offsite recovery media management
• Storage of client recovery information

Automated Generation of a Server Disaster Recovery Plan

The disaster recovery plan contains the information needed to recover ADSM to the time of the last database backup when the disaster recovery plan was created.

ADSM can generate the recovery plan file that is based on information from the ADSM database. You can schedule the plan to be generated periodically to ensure that it is current.

If the situation occurs when you need to recover your ADSM server, the following information and procedures is available in the recovery plan:

• Instructions defined by the administrator (for example, contact names and telephone numbers)

• The steps necessary to recover the server

• A list of ADSM database backup and copy storage pool volumes required to perform the recovery and the location of these volumes

• Types of devices required to read the volumes

• ADSM database and recovery log space requirements

• Copies of the ADSM server options file, device configuration file, and volume history information file

• Commands for performing server database recovery and primary storage pool recovery

• Commands for registering ADSM licenses

• Machine and recovery media information defined by the administrator

Offsite Recovery Media Management

To recover from a disaster, you must know the location of offsite recovery media. DRM treats your backup volumes as logical collections. For safeguarding against a disaster, these collections are selected and moved offsite. Eventually these collections return onsite for either reuse or disposal. DRM helps you track the location of your backup volumes and when appropriate expires the ADSM database backup series.

If you are manually moving volumes offsite (that is, not using virtual volumes), you can perform the following with DRM:

• Determine what database backup volumes and copy storage pool volumes you must move offsite or onsite.

• Track the media location in the ADSM database.

Storage of Client Recovery Information

DRM lets you save the following client information in the ADSM database:

• Business priority

• Machine location, machine characteristics, and machine recovery instructions

• Boot media requirements

You can use DRM QUERY commands to determine:

• The client machines to be recovered
• The order in which to recover the client machines
• The machine and boot media requirements