Hi Daniel, I see Joseph Butz has already chimed in - they're all good people at IDP. We just had our annual DR test yesterday and we use FDRABR and FDRAPPL to restore and recover at DR. We're a pretty simple shop (no plex) but I'll be glad to help if I can. We use FDRDSF to backup the catalogs, etc, after the volume dumps and FDRAPPL to restore those pesky application datasets that seem to get scattered around. Currently we do not process the daily incrementals at DR - we only recover back to the last full dump (Sunday in our case). In a real disaster we could recover to the last night's backup. We do a lean mean DR test to save money. We don't have the luxury of FDRDRP to restore multiple volumes in parallel, but all the disk volumes we recover fit on one 3592 tape. This means just one tape mount but one-by-one disk restores. If you had a lot to recover in a short time I would suggest FDRDRP also - I looked at it and liked it. Yep, you get what you pay for... :)
Robert Johnston UAMS - Little Rock, AR > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On > Behalf Of Daniel McLaughlin > Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 12:51 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: FDRABR, DR, and Things That Go Bump In The Night > > Currently our DR backup JCL streams are generated by REXX EXECs and sent > to the reader. We stack up to 15 volumes per 3590 in that process. Another > EXEC generates restore JCL for use at DR. Now the DR maven wants us to > look at FDRABR for incrementals and for the whole backup scenario in > general. > This would more than likely be a TYPE=AUTO with a weekly full dump and > incrementals during the week. He is also interested in FDRAPPL to replace > DRManager in use now. > > OK, here is my confusion. In my current process I have around 60 jobs to > run > at DR on the floor system. I simply restore the PDS containing those jobs > and > send them in. Now if we switch to FDRABR (AUTO) what is my course of > action at DR? I've been combing through the manual but it's only opened up > this type of question. > > Thank you! Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
