Course Description

This course on Tivoli Disaster Recovery Manager (DRM), a feature of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, can help you to prepare a disaster recovery plan, manage off-site volumes, restore systems using Tivoli Disaster Recovery Manager, and perform bare-metal restores with IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for System Backup and Recovery.

In this course you will learn and practice skills needed to implement and administer Tivoli Disaster Recovery Manager by creating a customised disaster-recovery plan to help you recover a Tivoli Storage Manager server and client. You will use the plan to back up the necessary server files, a database, and a storage pool onto removable media for offsite storage vaulting. Using Tivoli Storage Manager server-to-server communications, the plan will also be used to back up to remote virtual volumes for offsite electronic vaulting.

Bare Machine Recovery (BMR), is possible by using additional software, such as IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for System Backup and Recovery, the Microsoft Windows Automated System Recovery (ASR), and Cristie Bare Machine Recovery.

This course will cover the integration of these software products to create a total Disaster Recovery solution. With the student exercises, you will be given the opportunity to test your customised Disaster Recovery Plan by restoring the server files, database, storage pool, and client. You will also learn and practice the skills needed to manage the offsite disaster recovery media and to define client recovery information.

After taking this course you will have developed skills to set up IBM Tivoli Disaster Recovery Manager for automatic generation of a customised disaster recovery plan, off-site and electronic vaulting of disaster recovery media, and inventory of machine information required to recover IBM Tivoli Storage Manager clients.

Objectives

• Perform initial setup requirements to use Tivoli Disaster Recovery Manager.
• Plan, create and use customized disaster recovery plan files.
• Configure Tivoli Storage Manager Enterprise Edition to use removable media for offsite storage of critical files used during disaster recovery.
• Perform routine disaster recovery media management.
• Simulate a disaster and then recover a Tivoli Storage Manager Enterprise Edition server and client data using Tivoli Disaster Recovery Manager files stored on removable media.
• Configure IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Enterprise Edition to use server-to-server communications for electronic vaulting of critical files used during disaster recovery.
• Simulate a disaster and then recover an IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Enterprise Edition server and client data using the IBM Tivoli Disaster Recovery Manager files stored electronically on another server.

Who will benefit from this course
This course is designed for customers and business partners who will perform a hands-on implementation and/or administration of the IBM Tivoli Disaster Recovery Manager product. Students may be systems administrators/programmers, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager administrators, consultants, or members of a disaster recovery team.

Required Skills Knowledge
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager administration - this course assumes the student is knowledgeable of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager.

Prerequisites
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager 5.2 - Implementation

Course Outline

• Database and Storage Pool Review
• This chapter reviews the process of Tivoli Storage Manager database and storage pool backup.
• Introduction to Tivoli Disaster Recovery Manager
• This chapter provides an overview of the features of Tivoli Disaster Recovery Manager, and suggested methods on testing your disaster recovery plan.
• Setting Up and Customizing Tivoli Disaster Recovery Manager
• This chapter covers initial setup requirements to use Tivoli Disaster Recovery Manager and how to prepare a customized Disaster Recovery Plan file.
• Disaster Recovery Media Management
• This chapter covers Tivoli Disaster Recovery Manager removable media tape management.
• Backup and Recovery using Removable Media
• This chapter covers the process of backing up the Tivoli Storage Manager system to removable media for offsite storage and then using the media to recovery the system, and how to use Disaster Recovery Plan Files.
• Backup and Recovery using Server-to-Server Virtual Volumes
• This chapter reviews server to server communications and shows how it can be used by Tivoli Disaster Recovery Manager for electronic vaulting of storage pool backups, database backups, and recovery plan files.
• System Backup and Recovery
• This chapter explains the features, functions, and requirements of using IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for System Backup and third party software for Windows system recovery.