Recovering from system outages

For Tivoli® Storage Manager single-site disk solutions, you can recover the inventory locally only and restore the database to protect your data.

Procedure

Use one of the following methods to recover inventory to a local site, based on the type of information that is backed up.

Restriction: Because single-site disk solutions do not have a second copy of the storage pool, you cannot restore storage pools. To review the architecture of disk solutions, see Selecting a Tivoli Storage Manager solution.

Table 1. Scenarios for recovering from a disaster
Scenario	Procedure
Your system is inaccessible and you want to locally restore to an earlier version by using system tools.	Use Tivoli Storage Manager to back up the server to another server. Use operating system tools to back up and restore your system to an earlier version.
There was an outage or disaster and you want to restore your data from backed up versions of the data.	To back up a client, on the TSM Clients page of the Operations Center, select the clients that you want to back up, and click Back Up. On the TSM Servers page of the Operations Center, select the server whose database you want to back up. Click Back Up, and follow the instructions in the Back Up Server Database window. To restore a storage pool from a backed up version of the storage pool, you must restore the database. Issue the DSMSERV RESTORE DB command to restore the database and associated storage pools to a backed up version.