For your initial IPL at DR, you won't need your PAGE packs at all... yes, the IPL will
complain. As long as AUTOLOG1/2 isn't kicking off lots of other machines at DR time,
you'll be just fine. Then an exec can format the page volumes... re-ipl and all is good.
You will need spool space, so you might as well copy it (or keep a small spool area
available only with the NSS files, JUST for DR).
On 08/09/2011 07:03 AM, Crabtree, Anne D wrote:
I currently back up all my z/vm packs (res,page,spool) via an adrdssu job on z/os each
Sunday. At the DR site, I run an adrdssu restore job for these packs.
This method works fine, however, I’m wondering if backing up the page packs is
necessary? I was thinking that maybe I could backup only 1 page pack so that I can get
z/vm up and then just init the remaining packs after coming up. Since the page packs
are listed as cpvols in system config, would z/vm even come up if it couldn’t find all
of them? Seems like a waste of time to back them up…
At DR site, we bring up a z/os “rescue” system in order to run restore jobs for both
z/os and z/vm volumes. Afterwards, our z/vm and z/os systems run as second level
guests. Maybe I need a “rescue” z/vm system as well?
Just wondering what everyone else does.
Anne D. Crabtree
System Programmer
WV Office of Technology Data Center
1900 Kanawha Blvd East
Charleston, WV 25305
(304)558-5914 ext 58292
(304)558-1441 fax
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