Hi A.Cecilio,
You have already gotten some good replies that, in my opinion, should be followed. There are a couple of additional recommendations I would like to make. 1) You said that the cartridge is too damaged to read. How did it get damaged? It is important to find out because other cartridges may be at risk for the same damage, or may already be damaged and just not discovered yet. I f the root cause is not identified and corrected, you may end up with more damaged tapes. 2) If you are not able to read the tape, it m ight be possible for a recovery company to recover it and write the datasets, as many as they can recover, to new tapes, or to other media. Some years ago, on an old ATL/VTS that has since been replaced , one of the drives that wrote non-duplex data out of the VTS clobbered about a dozen tapes. At first, only one bad tape was obvious. We took the create drive and the last used drive out of service. Turned out it was the last used drive that did the damage. We were blessed that it wasn't the create drive. The recovery folks did get our data back. HTH, Linda ----- Original Message ----- From: "af dc" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2012 11:29:19 AM Subject: DFHSM: Backup tape lost due to errors Hello, suppose you have an 3592-JB dfhsm cart (native, not a vts stacked cart) that can't be read due to physical damage, no tape backup duplication. Several backups are unique, no additional versions. How to correct bcds ?? Run AUDIT DATASETCONTROLS (BACKUP) with NOFIX (to check the amount corrections) and then with FIX ??? Z/Os V1.12.?? Any hint is welcome. MAny thx, A.Cecilio ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
