It seems like it would depend on several factors:
What product do you use to originally store the data. In the past I
have used CA-ASM2, FDR, and HSM. The documentation for each discussed a
stand-alone procedure. What does the documentation for the product you use
say?
Where did the product physically store the data? Is that media
accessible when you are running in a stand-alone mode?
What type of restore do you envision? Are we talking about replacing
the entire contents of a disk from a full volume dump or bringing back a
critical dataset that was deleted or corrupted?
In my day physical tape drives were ubiquitous. Now with the ability to IPL
from the HMC, loading the stand-alone program is apparently not an issue.
But you still have to access the data. How would the stand-alone program
know where the data is located? Since your system is down, do you have
manual records to tell it?
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Stand-alone restore
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> How does one do a stand-alone restore with no tape drives attached?
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