VM:Backup HiDRO is adept at creating full volume backups. I assume since you said "disaster recovery" you mean to tape and offsite. When you get to your disaster site, you IPL a HiDRO tape, which does the restores of the system packs. You can then IPL the system to restore the rest of the packs. I did DR for years this way, until we got EMC's SRDF product.
________________________________ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System on behalf of Rizwan Haq Sent: Sun 8/3/2008 8:14 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: vm backup We just installed VM 5.2 under z/890 and want to take backup (image copy) of system packs on DASD (DS8100) just for disaster recovery to IPL VM from another volume. ddr required native volumes. Pls advice
