On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 09:41:50 -0600, Sebastian Welton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Have you tried just using IEBGENER? I know it sounds silly but I create a >full disk backup using ADRDSSU and then convert it to AWS format. To >restore it I then just use IEBGENER to copy the AWS file to a sequential >dataset on disk and then use ADRDSSU to restore it. >
Sorry Seb, but it does sound silly. No offence intended, but I don't suppose that IEBGENER can process AWS headers. Am I right in thinking you run a Flex-ES system? Flex-ES can handle AWS files, so if you IEBGENER off an AWS FakeTape(tm) it will get translated to blocks that IEBGENER is able to re-block. I run a Flex-ES system so I can do this at home, but I want to take dumps of a test zOS 1.7 system to our datacentre in Bavaria where there is a Z box I can use for testing (IBM will not allow FSI to give me 64 bit support). Maybe I CAN take 46 cartridges in my luggage but it would be a lot easier to take two DVD's containing zipped AWS images of the tapes. But then what do I do with them? I tried overriding the blocksize on the backups to 32760 which can be processed by any utility, but that doubled the elapsed time of the backups. As a last restort I guess I can COPYDUMP the tape to a 32760 disk file and FTP that to a PC, zip it and burn it with no AWS conversion, but it would require an awful lot of disk space. Besides, I have this AWS tape archive system all setup that I would like to ensure is general purpose, so I have to find some way to restore an AWS copy of a backup. Best candidate at the moment seems to be Sam Golob's VTT utilities off file 533 of the CBT tape. Has anyone used this successfully to restore a DfDSS backup? Dave ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
