In a message dated 9/13/2005 9:56:21 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I only used FDRINSTANT. Didn't have to do any of this. Needs a blank target in same storage groups and whoosh it's done. Backups run at same speed as tape controller no slower no faster. FDRINSTANT is doing all of the above under the covers for you. If it has control over the volume (which is normal for FDR), it won't need to allocate a new data set covering the target voume's tracks that correspond to the source tracks. My point is that the backup, which some may say is done in a couple of milliseconds, is not really done until that tape controller finishes rewinding the last backup tape, created at tape write speed. So the backup is not really finished in a couple of milliseconds, but rather however long it takes to copy X number of thousands of DASD tracks to tape. Something called a backup is available after 2 milliseconds, but a real usable backup copy takes minutes or hours. Bill Fairchild ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
