Shane, To your point. Anything we do with ABARS or DFDSS dumps will most likely be "fuzzy" as many files are always open under CICS/IMS/MQ/DB2, etc....
To harden the data to make the backup useful would require an outage in some cases. So I appreciate everyone's input. There is a lot to consider. Lizette > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Shane Ginnane > Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2015 5:01 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Thoughts on DFSMShsm ABARS in today's environment > > On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 11:00:48 -0500, Glenn Wilcock finished with: > > >So, when determining your backup strategy, first determine your recovery > needs and then determine which backup technique will best fit those needs. > > The elephant in the room is that there is no way to have complete > confidence in backups - of whatever nature. They may be "consistent" > (FSVO), but are they valid ?. > And if they are bad, there is no way to know how far back you need to go to > get a "good" copy. And whether your business could survive going back that > far. > > BTDTGTS. > > Shane ... > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
