OK Next step: ISM imported restore of onbar -w using disk-based backups

For reasons to complex to go into, we're now backing up to disk (data and logs), using onbar -w and ISM, pool names ISMDiskData and ISMDiskLogs whereas before we used an external storage manager to tape. We do a copy of our live database (300Gb or so) on a regular basis onto our development system, a separate machine running the same version of IDS and HP-UX, to an instance configured exactly the same as the live instance (spacenames, chunknames etc). Under the old system we had a procedure we followed that worked fine; now we're building the procedure to do this under the new ISM regime. All the "Imported Restore" methods I've seen include a step to re- initialize ISM on the target machine and rebuild the indexes, catalogs etc using the imported catalogs and indexes from the source machine, but that's not an option on our development system because we have several IDS instances running and communicating with ISM, only one instance of which is to be restored over; so if we overwrite ISM we prevent the other running instances from using it, which we can't do. Anyone know how to do an imported restore under these circumstances? Can't we import just the relevant So far I've looked at: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21416790&myns=swgimgmt&mynp=OCSSGU8G&mync=R http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/idshelp/v115/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.ism.doc/sii051000051.htm

To complete the truncated line!... > Can't we import just the relevant media entries?

C'mon, anyone? To use ISM restore an instance from our live server to our test server, which carries 3 instances, we have to trash all ISM info on the target server regarding all 3 instances? No way around that?

On Nov 11, 10:21 am, Malc <mal...@googlemail.com> wrote: > C'mon, anyone? > To use ISM restore an instance from our live server to our test > server, which carries 3 instances, we have to trash all ISM info on > the target server regarding all 3 instances? > No way around that? As per http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/idshelp/v117/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.ism.doc/ism02.htm - run ism_show -devices - link your volume to the device - run ism_op -mount <device> - run ism_recatalog -recreate_from <device> You may need to recreate the storage poosl for the original server first, I have some undocumented commands to do that which I canot share, check early Legato Networker documentation.

Hello Malc, David is probably right. Another option is to backup the live production to disk using ontape with compression. It is easier, more reliable, usually 1/10 the original size and usually "fast enough". Or, if you can shutdown production, then run cp, rcp, dd or whatever to copy the chunk files to the backup (or restore) location. I have a terabyte cooked system and for more speed I run "compress -c FILENAME > /NEW_DIR/FILENAME.Z &" for all chunks in parallel. The original files remain full size and I get a compressed copy in my backup directory. -LS