On 4 Feb 2016 21:58:50 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >I'd like to suggest an alternative recovery strategy. Once upon a time it made >sense to devote a tape or two to standalone restore. We kept a couple of >cartridges in a drawer just in case. Two problems evolved over time. > >1. What would we restore? There are so many different components required to >get a system running. We would need an IPLable resvol, a RACF volume, a JES >volume; a PARMLIB, PROCLIB, and who knows what else. Just to get a system >capable of accepting logons. Missing just one of those could be insurmountable. > >2. Tape technology has totally transformed. I haven't held a cartridge in my >hand for years. What would I do with one anyway? Tape here is completely >virtual except for a few 'real drives' that hold data offloaded from virtual. >There is literally no place to insert and read a DSS recovery volume.
For those who don't mirror to an off-site location, how would they restore the system to another box at the DR location except by using physical media? Clark Morris > >Instead of standalone restore, plan to recover a system rather than a volume >or two. You don't need to restore sysres. You should have at least two sysres >volumes anyway that you swap between for maintenance. Would you really lose >both of them? IPL from the alternate. What you really need is a single volume >for critical components: master catalog, RACF, spool, PROC/PARMLIBs, whatever >it takes to get a sysprog logged on to run actual recovery jobs. It does not >have to be pretty, just minimally functional for a SME who knows how to put >Humpty Dumpty back together again. That volume is always available and can be >tested periodically to make sure it works. Just a thought. > > > >. >. >. >J.O.Skip Robinson >Southern California Edison Company >Electric Dragon Team Paddler >SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager >323-715-0595 Mobile >[email protected] > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] >> On Behalf Of Anthony Thompson >> Sent: Thursday, February 4, 2016 09:10 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [Bulk] Re: Stand-Alone DSS RESTORE with 3584 Library - How?? >> >> Not sure if this helps... we don't have any such advanced gear. >> >> http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas8N1015538 >> >> Ant. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] >> On Behalf Of Ed Jaffe >> Sent: Friday, 5 February 2016 12:58 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Stand-Alone DSS RESTORE with 3584 Library - How?? >> >> On 2/4/2016 7:17 PM, Mike Schwab wrote: >> > Is there any way to log in to issue a mount command within the tape >> > library? >> >> Not that I can find. http://publibfp.dhe.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/a3205604.pdf >> >> -- >> Edward E Jaffe >> Phoenix Software International, Inc >> 831 Parkview Drive North >> El Segundo, CA 90245 >> http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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
