We do both, but we're not large. We'd been using FDR for ages before SMS was really anything. SMS and DFHSM were a big "reduce human dasd management" idea in the early 90's and we started and finished moving application data to SMS with DFHSM managing them. We still, and I'd really need to be convinced to do otherwise, use FDR for system backup and recovery. Among other reasons, it's still faster and the faster I can get a base system up in a DR situation, the sooner I'll be in a parallel restore Adabas and restore SMS managed dasd path. Back in the SLED days, we had an HDA failure and out catalogs were on SMS/HSM managed disk. Left a very bad task and I remedied the catalog location forthwith. JMHO
Dave Gibney [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Programmer (509) 335-7359 Information Technology Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-1222 > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 1:08 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: FDR/ABR in large shops > > Yes. > > Is you data center located in the New Orleans area? > > We are a MVS z/OS Federal Payroll Processing Center that pays close to > 600,000 > employees every 2 weeks. > We were also part of the Katrina Disaster and have utilized FDR and FDRABR > for > backup and restore for years. > This product worked flawlessly before and after the disaster. > It is competitively priced (why we are still with Innovations) and the > support > staff is outstanding. > > > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
