So my thoughts are 1) Yes you can do this 2) You may need more dasd that tape 3) You will be tying up DASD for a long time for backups. 4) You will need to determine how long your longest Backup dataset is held for.
An HSM Backup is used to recover files. So if this is part of a DR process, then you need to account for that policy as well. Also determine how is your HSM BACKUP datasets sent to a DR site (if they are sent) and identify that as part of the DASD requirements. Lizette > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Robert Heffner > Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 10:03 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: HSM Backup to Disk > > First off, I would like to say I am not an HSM expert, I am supporting HSM > while a coworker is on medical leave. The company is looking to eliminate > tape from the environment and I would like to know the best (or perhaps only) > way to move HSM automatic backup from tape to disk. My feeling is we need to > obtain the disk space needed well ahead of the elimination of tape, then set > backups to go to disk instead of tape, and just let the tape backups drop off > through attrition. There are some backups that we keep up to 200 days. Any > other ideas? This is z/OS 2.2. > Thanks -- Bob Heffner > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
