Tried and true - Backup from Shadowimage, Flashcopy or Timefinder P-i-T copies.
> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Longnecker, Dennis > Sent: Tuesday, 4 April 2006 11:22 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Disaster Recovery, order of things > > Any thoughts on the best way to handle the backup of the various > catalogs and RMM files for disaster recovery purposes? TO be specific, > > 1) On weekends we backup our DASD to tape > 2) We run DB2 Image backups to tape > 3) After that completes, we have a job that runs a copies DR related > libraries and catalogs to tape > > 4) When we go to the DR site, we use their "floor system" to restore the > various load libraries (from step 3) and the catalog containing the tape > backups. > > 5) We then run a restore of all the tapes created in step 2 > 6) We IPL our system > > What we have at this point is a snapshot of the system how it looks from > step 1. And the problems start. > > 7) The DB2 folks want to start doing their restores, but the system > catalogs (restored from step 1) do not represent their backups from step > 2. > > 8) We restore their catalog backup state from step 3. > > 9) The DB2 folks start doing their restores. RMM complains the tapes we > are trying to read in are scratch tapes and bomb off the jobs. This is > because the RMM database was backed up before the DB2 images were > created. > > 10) We put RMM in warning mode and did the restores. > > Anyone have a tried and true method they can share that outlines the > best practices/steps we should take the backups of various things? > And, of course, any other thoughts? > > Thanks, > Dennis Longnecker > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
