You need to rerun step 4 onto your system DASD to set all the catalogs and
libraries to the post-backup position. This should allow RMM to mount the
correct tapes for the DB2 restores.

/Tom Kern

On Tue, 4 Apr 2006 08:21:45 -0700, Longnecker, Dennis
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>Any thoughts on the best way to handle the backup of the various
>catalogs and RMM files for disaster recovery purposes?  TO be specific,
>
>1) On weekends we backup our DASD to tape
>2) We run DB2 Image backups to tape
>3) After that completes, we have a job that runs a copies DR related
>libraries and catalogs to tape
>
>4) When we go to the DR site, we use their "floor system" to restore the
>various load libraries (from step 3) and the catalog containing the tape
>backups.
>
>5) We then run a restore of all the tapes created in step 2
>6) We IPL our system
>
>7) The DB2 folks want to start doing their restores, but the system
>catalogs (restored from step 1) do not represent their backups from step
>2.
>
>8) We restore their catalog backup state from step 3.
>
>9) The DB2 folks start doing their restores.  RMM complains the tapes we
>are trying to read in are scratch tapes and bomb off the jobs.  This is
>because the RMM database was backed up before the DB2 images were
>created.
>
>10) We put RMM in warning mode and did the restores.
>

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