Daniel, If you want to split your full volume backup evenly (# of GB) on two drives you should look at our DASD Backup Supervisor product that will automate the building of the 2 backup jobs. As DASD volumes grow in size, new volumes added, changed or deleted DBS will track those changes and automatically rebuild the backup jobs. You can also change this to balance across 4 drives and really speed up recovery provided you have 4 drives at your DR site. The product does also build all the needed recovery jobs and validates the recovery DASD before starting the recovery.
Check out the following link: http://www.opentechsystems.com/dbs.php Regards, Don Don Bolton Director Technical Services www.OpentechSystems.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel McLaughlin Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 9:42 AM To: [email protected] Subject: FDR Dilemnas We got a couple of 3592 drives in specifically to do full volume backups for DR. Boss said objective is to get our 830 DASD dumped to two tapes, and if it's fast enough do it nightly. Started messing around with our homegrown code and set up FDR/DSF for 155 volumes per tape just to check time and usage. Sparks flew and we got several 513-04 abends, but the job kept trucking. Smoke billowed as it hit my generated DISK card(s) that commenced with DISKAA or TAPEAA that caused a U888 - DD card name cannot exceed 5 characters. 513-04 may be the result of TAPE11 or TAPE22 being used because it's reserved for duplication, IIRC, (and that just flashed into my brain.) The objective is to stay with FDR because we own it. No money for other third party solutions. I'm thinking FDRABR? Open to suggestions....think I'm on the right track. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
