Many times during a DR test you may need to "SCRUB" your catalogs to get them in sync with existing DASD/datasets. There are several products on the market that can help. T-REX is one of them and supports full multi-tasking capabilities during the SCRUB process. As many as 32 catalogs can be scrubbed simultaneously. I won't go into more details on all the DR support contained within T-REX, but it is significant. Should you want more information, contact me offline and I'd be glad to help. Also, if you just want to run different scenarios/questions past me that are not product related, I'd be glad to assist there too.
Larry Crilley Dino Software, Corp. http://www.dino-software.com/ 412.734.2853 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Dawes Sent: Friday, November 24, 2006 11:03 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [SPAM] Re:DFDSS - DISASTER RECOVERY QUESTION (RESTORE) - REPOST My concern about the catalog is that we are backing it up and restoring it. However, the customer may be not backing up their volumes at the same time this is why I think we could have a synchronization problem. I forgot about the SELECTMULTI parm. I have not seen the user's backup. However I have taken note about it and I will verify to see if it is included in their jcl. The backups have not been taken and are scheduled to be run on November 28th. Thanks for picking up on the SELECTMULTI and other comments. "O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: John, A couple of questions: 1. If the restores are done logically then the catalogs will be re-sync'd during the restore. Why are you concerned? 2. Why would the catalogs be out of sync? Weren't they backed up at the same time as the data? 3. What SELECTMULTI option was used when the logical backups were done? If all was used you may be restoring multiple copies of multivolume datasets. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
