On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 16:15:10 -0400, Tim Hare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm sure this has been discussed off and on, but technologies have changed >over time, too - so I would like to ask anyone has good advice for dealing >with virtual tape (STK VSM3 / VTCS 6.1) in a DR environment. We have some >application tape that may need to be recovered - but the last time I >looked into the issue of moving virtual volumes offsite (back at VTCS 4.1) >it wasn't pretty. > >So, I'm interested to hear if anyone has any workable methods for dealing >with the issue... > We've been doing it since 4.1 and it hasn't changed. Basically it involves duplexing the virtual tapes (VTVs) you need onto a second set of back end tapes (MVCs) and getting those offsite along with a backup copy of your CDS. See the STK VTCS disaster recovery manual and PTAM (pickup truck access method). One thing we do different than the "standard process" is use CDSMERGE instead of a manifest import. When we started doing this the import would have taken about 18 hours (process improved since then to perhaps 3 or 4 hours), but CDSMERGE takes about 5 minutes. If you want to discuss this in more detail off list, I'll be happy to as I was invovled since the start. DR was the main reason we got rid of VTS and installed VSM and have been doing it since day 1 of VSM. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS and OS390 expert at http://searchDataCenter.com/ateExperts/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.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
