> > > ICK04000I DEVICE IS IN SIMPLEX STATE > > Ah, memories of 3990 dual copy mode. This just says that the unit you > specified is not part of a dual copy pair. Think of it as RAID1 for > 3390s. Unless you have real 3390s and real 3990s, you probably won't > ever see the paired version. >
Why do you say that? All of our production DASD runs in HRC (Hitachi PPRC) duplex mode. We periodically suspend the HRC and run backups off the mirror copies, to reduce our backup downtime to a minimum. (At least the VM/VSE DASD). Shimon -- ************************************************************************ Shimon Lebowitz mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] VM System Programmer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Israel Police National HQ. http://www.poboxes.com/shimonpgp Jerusalem, Israel phone: +972 2 542-9877 fax: 542-9308 ************************************************************************
