On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 07:55:52 -0600, Chase, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >So at 03:00.00 you start a "conventional" backup process, and at >03:00.01 the same disaster occurs. Are you not in the same boat?? > > -jc-
Yes John ,but somehow no :-)) But as i said it was for the sake of the argument . In my case ,I run a // sysplex on 2 distant sites I have protected my environment against hardware failure by PPRCing (synchronous) the entire siteA DASD bay on siteB bay . If a plane strikes ( forget the laser beam :-) ) one of my bay,i am OK,i still have my site B with proper data because device end comes back only once secondary is written . If some human/application/whatever accident erases my data , i am dead . For these reasons i need some DR backup , and some legal rules oblige me to have these cartridges externalised . To do that , i need a mean , and the easiest way is Db2 log suspend followed by flashcopy and Db2 log resume then dump my flashcopied disks . ( Joel C. Ewing gave a vey nice description of why we cannot make it without log suspend) But as Ron said , Disks are pretty strong these days , raid 5 and 6 are nice securities , etc etc ... Bruno Bruno(dot)sugliani(at)groupemornay(dot)asso(dot)fr ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
