John, To be more precise, does IBM have a product that can backup a FlashCopy target. The answer is yes - DFSMSdss using DUMPCONDITIONING.
What I think I am hearing hear is that with the basic FDR product you would use the capability to backup offline volumes, meaning you don't need another LPAR, and you don't need FDR/INSTANT. The unfortunate thing in all this is that FlashCopy require the target volumes to be genned to the same system as the Source volume, or the command won't work. These means the duplicate volume time bomb is sitting around waiting to happen. With Shadowimage, and I think Timefinder, the target volume does not have to be visible to the Source Volume's LPAR, and you can use Volume masking on the Storage to make sure it can never go online to that LPAR. > > Does IBM have a product which can backup offline DASD? If not, then the > salesman doesn't have anything to sell. And he's not likely to mention > that FDR has an option to do that! > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
