It’s Friday, so don’t rag on me for venturing into IT fiction. No one has hit us with this challenge (yet), but it could happen.
Ransomware is much in the news these days. As unlikely as it might be, some nefarious genius manages to lock you out of your entire disk farm and demands rubies and bitcoin to remove the lock. Meanwhile your shop is out of the water. You have everything meticulously mirrored to another site, but as with any good mirror, the lock has been reflected in your recovery site. The classic mainframe response--short of forking over the ransom--would be to IPL a standalone DSS restore tape, then locate and mount standard offload backup tapes. Restore enough key volumes to IPL a minimal system, then proceed to restore (all) other volumes. It will take a while, but it will work. Eventually. Now consider a smartly modern shop that has taken the advice of a generation of hired gurus and eliminated 'real tape' altogether. No more physical tapes. No more physical tape drives. What would be your sage advice? . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW robin...@sce.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
