Hi, and sorry in advance if these are simple questions. I'm not a storage administrator, but am trying to figure out some things about how our system operates.
Our environment is z.OS 1.4, running DFSMS/hsm as well as DFHSMdss and DFSMSrmm. We use both automatic backups of changed datasets and ML!/ML2 migration. In reading the manuals and piecing together what we have running here, I have determined that we run an EXPIREBV EXECUTE NONSMS(DBU(60) CATALOGED UNCATALOGED(60)) command on a weekly basis, followed the next day by a RECYCLE command for tape consolidation. As far as I can tell, we don't use ABARS. We do full volume backups of the entire system daily outside of DFSMShsm control which we duplicate and send 2 sets offsite. 1. If I have a non-SMS managed dataset that has been backed up and I then delete the dataset, does DFSMShsm consider this a retired dataset? In other words, on my weekly EXPIREBV run, will DFSMShsm wait 60 days after the dataset is scratched and then delete all the backup copies of the dataset? 2. Currently we do not duplicate our ML2 or HSM backup tapes (yes I know that's bad). I want to start doing this. However, I'm confused as to how this is supposed to work. We use PARTIALTAPEREUSE so we can fill up our 3590 tapes and keep the number of HSM tapes to a manageable size. The manual seems to indicate that I can't use this if I want to duplicate the tapes to send a copy offsite. Here's what I want to do. For both ML2 and backups, I want HSM to reuse partially filled tapes to do the backups/migrations and then to copy the tapes to duplicates that I can send offsite. The next time migration/backups run I want HSM to make new duplicates of both the partially filled and completely filled tapes to send offsite, and HSM to tell RMM to scratch the previous offsite duplicates. Can I do this, and if so, how? Thanks in advance. Rex Pommier † CNA Surety 101 South Phillips Ave Sioux Falls, SD 57104 605-977-7719 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
