SafeGuarded Copy on IBM DS8000 On Fri, Sep 4, 2020, 21:50 Jesse 1 Robinson <jesse1.robin...@sce.com> wrote:
> 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
