On Thu, 9 Jun 2011 08:16:49 -0500, Rebecca Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
>We are looking to add a VSM to our recovery contract to match our >production configuration (for the last several years, the configurations have >not matched and we used real tape drives during the test). We have strict >requirements that we erase all data at the recovery site at the end of our >test. When using real tape, we use the CA-1 utility to erase the tapes at the >end of the test. But it cannot erase virtual tapes or the MVCs used on the >backend of the VSM. What possible solutions are there for erasing data from a >VSM? I think we can safely avoid writing to the MVCs since our test cycle is >short enough that we wont fill up the cache in the VSM. Is there a way to >erase the cache? How do others handle the requirement to not leave >sensitive data behind when using a VSM with a 3rd party recovery provider? > You are referring to what I think Oracle calls "wiping" the VSM. That is most likely done by Oracle and not the 3rd party recovery provider. If you are using that VSM for recovery, it also has to be done prior to you doing your test or you would run into a boat load of issues. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:[email protected] Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
