Administrator's Guide

Using Disaster Recovery Manager

Disaster Recovery Manager (DRM) is an optional feature that assists an administrator with preparing a disaster recovery plan. The disaster recovery plan can be used to guide an administrator through disaster recovery as well as for audit purposes to certify the recoverability of the ADSM server.

DRM's disaster recovery methods are based on the following measures:

• Enabling Disaster Recovery Manager
• Creating a backup copy of server primary storage pools and database
• Sending server backup volumes offsite
• Moving reclaimed or expired volumes back onsite
• Creating the ADSM server disaster recovery plan file
• Storing client machine information
• Defining and tracking client recovery media