On 21 Mar 2007 12:31:50 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >> >> I learnt that the hard, but not critical way, some time back. We were using >> FDR for backups and creating 1 original and a copy at the same time. One >> copy would go in the firesafe and one would stay in the robbie (Comparex >> 6388 ACL if anyone remembers those beasts!) Anyway management decided that >> they wanted an offsite copy as well so I just added extra DD statement and >> made 3 copies at once. The job ran nicely, no failures and we, presumably, >> had 3 copies of all our data. Come DR time, I recalled the tapes from the >> offsite storage and tried to restore them. No go, at all. There was no data >> on them. Upon checking all the other copies they were exactly the same. >Seb, for your info, FDR and FDRABR support two tape copies of each >backup, specified as TAPEx and TAPExx (x is any alphanumeric character) >so you might use TAPE1 and TAPE11. If sounds like you added a TAPE111 >DD statement, hoping to get a third copy, but that is not supported. >FDR will just ignore it, so it will not open the dataset, > >That doesn't explain why the TAPE1 and TAPE11 backups appear to be >empty. We just ran a test and they were fine.
Over 20 years ago now, I fouled up the backup control statements to the FDRDSF dump of the development volume so that at least some libraries weren't backed up. I discovered it when we went to restore a development member library. OOPS. Obviously I was quick to fix the problem and make sure I hadn't duplicated it. Any backup software will screw up if you tell it to using valid syntax. FDR backups saved our bacon on more than one occasion and were the tool for moving the data when my shop moved data centers so this is not meant as a criticism of a product I still like better than the IBM equivalent. > >Our FDRTCOPY utility can be used read TAPE1 or TAPE11 and create a third >copy. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
