Patent ID: 7802126
Filing Date: 2010-09-21
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A system for planning and verifying off-site disaster recovery, which system comprises: at least one primary mainframe computer having an inboard catalog component, a primary emulated device controller connected to said primary computer, and a primary virtual tape system connected to said primary, computer; a primary virtual tape system catalog connected to said primary virtual tape system; a disaster recovery facility being remote from said primary mainframe computer, said disaster recovery facility comprising at least one customer virtual tape system having a virtual tape system catalog component, at least one remote data storage client device having at least one virtual tape catalog, a disaster recovery terminal emulator in communication with a disaster recovery mainframe which is reconfigured with configuration information from said primary emulated device controller, a disaster recovery virtual tape system having a virtual tape system catalog in communication with the disaster recovery mainframe and the disaster recovery terminal emulator, and an arbitrary data repository having non-tape disaster information; wherein the primary virtual tape system catalog is mirrored on the virtual tape catalog of the remote data storage client device; wherein primary virtual tape system images are mirrored on the disaster recovery virtual tape system, and catalog information from the customer virtual tape catalog is mirrored on the disaster recovery virtual tape system of the disaster recovery facility; and a disaster recovery administrator using remote management tools to maintain user and resource profiles, control configuration of the primary emulated device controller and the primary virtual tape system, and test and verify various disaster recovery plans.