On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 09:41:24 -0700, Gibney, Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We're thinking about dasd to dasd backups to cover these issues. What of the corruption occurs just before the backup? How many generations of backup do you plan to keep? > >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shane >> >> On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 07:33 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote: >> >> > Mirroring is great, but backups are still a good idea. >> >> I'd go even further. >> Mirroring presumes the source is *always* valid - in fact >> mirroring is great for propagating errors. Timely (tape) >> backups are still mandatory. >> If you rely on mirroring only, you'd better not get a >> (shared) MCAT corruption - or any of the other critical exposures. >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
