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. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

