If you need 1 hour recovery time, its suggested you use RDF or Metro
Mirror (SAN replication). TSM restore would just take too long,
depending on your tape+library+drive+amount of data.

You should also consider using GLVM (Part of AIX 5.3 now).



Pete's wrote:
> madunix wrote:
> > Disaster Recovery (DR)Preparation
> >
> > We do Oracle10g CRS (no _HACMP_) on 2xNodes AIX5.3 connected to FC SAN
> > DS4800 to serve our members which is a real time application.we
> > planning to do a Disster Recovery plan for this service,DR plan need to
> > recover 1 hour max time, the site will be about 35Km away,system must
> > be restored to the last transaction, on the backup site we are thinking
> > to palce the same identical hardware of our Production, AIX Servers and
> > SAN DS4800Our data will be mirrored across a WAN link E1.
> >
> > Is there anyone that have some experience of Veritas, TSM or STORIX for
> > DR.
> >
> >
> > madunix
>
> What about using a standby instance in "Instant Protection" or
> "Guaranteed Protection" mode at the standby site? Redo info would then
> be automatically shipped over to the DR Site and no need for HA/XD or
> remote mirror on the DS4800, unless you are required to mirror other
> filesystem stuff.
>
> HTH,
> Pete's