I did not know that CD could be used for standalone restore. However, how do I process my volume dumps? They also live only in virtual.
. . 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 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Gibney, Dave Sent: Friday, September 4, 2020 12:53 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Re: Ransoming a mainframe disk farm CAUTION EXTERNAL EMAIL You can IPL Standalone DSS or FDR from CD > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On > Behalf Of Jesse 1 Robinson > Sent: Friday, September 04, 2020 11:51 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Ransoming a mainframe disk farm > > 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
