On Tuesday, 02/19/2008 at 01:30 EST, Mike Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Solution: backup a system using its own products which are aware of these > limitations, or use backup tools at rely on a client running on the system > being backed up to get a stable, reliable, and _restorable_ backup. Let me second this. It is important, too, to understand that just because you did a test restore of the data you backed up today, and it worked, that it may not work tomorrow. Consider what might happen if you were backing up SFS server disks while changes were being made. (shudder) Free advice: Always run DIRECTXA against your last known-good directory when the system comes up after a DR restore unless you know that the object and source directories are in sync. (You don't know, unless the system was down during the backup.) Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
