On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:36:17 +0000, Ted MacNEIL <[email protected]> wrote:
>>HAHA yes, getting a backup strategy in place is a key deliverable Q1 of >next year :) > >>Since it is a development box, there hasn't been a lot of time given to it. > >I've been burned many times over the years, by attitudes that 'development does not matter'. > >Unless you've 'stabilised' all your applications, have no abends, and no changes due to regulatory requirements, you have a need for development maintenance and backups. > >One company I worked for lost a major business opportunity because an application source library got corrupted and had never been backed up. >Applications thought Storage Management was doing it; Storage Management said it was not Production, so it was not their responsibility. > >Storage Management was wrong! >- There's no right or wrong here about who's responsibility it is or was. What's important is that the rules / roles / responsibilities are clearly defined, documented and verified. Verified meaning audited or checked on a regular basis for completeness, whether it be DR testing or some other method. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[email protected] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.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
