Hi, Lizette, I am limited in the amount of detail I can give. I can say that we will need to backup from an IBM array to a completely virtual tape machine. We will be wanting to make the best use of Flashcopy and the like.
I am only concerned with the mainframe side of the equation. We do have DFSMShsm, but do not intend to use it for catastophic DR response. Basically, we will have virtual tapes at a cold site. We are mostly looking for an automated full pack backup product. Thank you for the response, Greg From: Lizette Koehler <stars...@mindspring.com> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU, Date: 01/22/2014 08:39 AM Subject: Re: DASD backup solutions Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> There are several options. Do you have just the one DASD Storage array? Do you have the ability to replicate? Will you be using tape for back-up? Is it virtual or physical? Will you be backing up the mainframe or open system or both? Do you have DFSMShsm? If so, you can use that for backup of files and volumes. It also provides the corrupt file recovery with BACKUP. What is your SLAs for DR and Business Continuity/Operational Recovery? Do you need to recover when data is corrupted but not failed? Do you need to recover from a system failure? Do you need to recover from a failed Storage Array? Your shop requirements should be able to isolate what you need to do. There are specialty products for VSAM and Catalog, there are also more general products for system backup. DRVFI can read your SMF data and build the process needed to back-up your files. There are other products. Lizette > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Greg Schmeelk > Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 5:44 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: DASD backup solutions > > Hi, listers, > > I am trying to get suggestions for disaster recovery DASD backup and restore > solutions. > > The products that I currently know about are DASD Backup Supervisor and > FDR/ABR-FDRDRP. Any suggestions on what other products I might be interested > in looking at would be appreciated. > > Suggestions can be emailed directly to me at greg_schme...@jbhunt.com > > Thanks, > Greg > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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