I got the link to your FCM Tutorial from Chris Zaremba, because it might help us to fulfill a customer requirement. I am working in the outsourcing division of IBM and one of our customers has the request to make a consistent clone of his productive SQL database evry morning.
We first thougt that Tivoli Flashcopy Manager could help to resolve this request, but the functionality of cloning a SQL database is not implemented. As interim solution we wrote a script which sets the database offline, makes a flashcopy in the storage box and imports the clone to the other system. It works but the interruption of the production is not acceptable for the customer.

I now hope that your scripts might help us. I will give you a description of our environement.

- 2 data centers
- 2 Windows 2008 servers with SQL 2008 running a cluster (one server in each data center)
- data are mirrored via Veritas volume manager
- DS8000 storage box
- in each data center a clone of the production database has to be provided for another server (this means one clone in each data center)

I am refering to chapter 8.3 in your tutorial. Can the scripts handle the above request? Is the installation of Tivoli Flashcopy Manager a prerequiste?

Thanks a lot for an anwer,
Katharina Essers