Radoslaw, Exactly - what's the point of a backup if you cant's restore from it.
By keeping the backups in a shared catalog, or refreshing the catalog on the Father system you can access all your backup tapes for dataset level restore. I have not looked into to how to do this with DB2, but I suspect there is a way to feed the backup information from the clone system back into the father system DB2. This is how it is done with Oracle using RMAN on a clone system. I dare say a lot of non-DBMS backups can be done without a clone system using FDRINSTANT. Last time I worked with CA-IDMS it supported fuzzy restores providing there was a common synchpoint for all the tablespaces that you used to roll forward from. FDRINSTANT would be great for this. Ron (Mr Mednick - a CA-IDMS site in HK may be interested in this) > > Cloned system for reporting, etc ? Piece of cake in mainframe environment. > Backup from such system ? another piece of cake. > Restore ? Hmmm... That's the problem. Easy, when full database is > restored. Can be difficult in other cases. > Remember: good backup is a *half* of success. Another half is restore. <g> > > > -- > Radoslaw Skorupka > Lodz, Poland > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
