On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:15:26 -0500, McKown, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim McAlpine >> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 10:11 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: DFDSS versus FDR >> As I remember, one of the big >> differentiators at the >> time was that with FDR you could do a dataset restore (including VSAM >> datasets) from a full volume physical dump but that wasn't >> possible with >> DFDSS. >> Jim McAlpine > >DFDSS can restore single volume sequential and PDS datasets from a full >volume backup. It cannot restore multivolume sequential or VSAM from a >full volume backup. > >-- >John McKown >Senior Systems Programmer Jim, You won't find any product can restore a multivolume dataset from just one volume backup. You can work hard to restore the individual pieces and then hope you catalog them in the right order. Maybe for VSAM too if you work at the component level, not the cluster. Haven't tried lately. Then go and do a define recatalog. But you really need to be depserate to do that. Full volume dumps were meant for full volume restore. Incremental dataset level backups give you dataset recovery. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
