> > > 2) We use FDR/ABR on our z/OS side for backing up for Disaster Recovery. > We > > would like to keep using FDR. Now I know I can get clean backups if
> the > > systems are shut down. Are there any gotcha's if I take a FDR full > dump > > against say 530RES or 530SPL while the system is up? \ > > I strongly encourage you NOT to do that. The warmstart area and the spool > volumes must all be consistent. If you must use FDR, then set up a 2nd > level guest (with dedicated volumes, not mdisks) whose sole purpose is to > provide a resting place for spool files to be backed up by FDR. > > SPXTAPE DUMP the first level spool to tape. Then attach the tape to the > 2nd level guest and SPXTAPE LOAD it. Shut it down. Back it up with FDR. > When recovering, use FDR to restore the guest volumes. IPL the guest, > SPXTAPE DUMP them and then load them on the first level system. If > necessary, you could IPL the guest first level, as it were. The nice > thing is that the guest doesn't have to have the same spool volume > configuration; it just needs enough space to store the spool files. > > Of course, if you only use the spool for transient data and don't care if > you lose it, you can simply COLD/CLEAN start and rebuild the NSSes and > DCSSes. Don't care about the spool. Can you provide a step by step to rebuild the NSSes and DCSSes? Can't use SPXTAPE dump as we have no tape drives attached to either of the VM systems. Is there a way to save the DCSSes and NSSes without a tape drive?
