You can IPL Standalone DSS or FDR from CD > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On > Behalf Of Jesse 1 Robinson > Sent: Friday, September 04, 2020 11:51 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Ransoming a mainframe disk farm > > It’s Friday, so don’t rag on me for venturing into IT fiction. No one has hit > us > with this challenge (yet), but it could happen. > > Ransomware is much in the news these days. As unlikely as it might be, some > nefarious genius manages to lock you out of your entire disk farm and > demands rubies and bitcoin to remove the lock. Meanwhile your shop is out > of the water. You have everything meticulously mirrored to another site, but > as with any good mirror, the lock has been reflected in your recovery site. > > The classic mainframe response--short of forking over the ransom--would be > to IPL a standalone DSS restore tape, then locate and mount standard offload > backup tapes. Restore enough key volumes to IPL a minimal system, then > proceed to restore (all) other volumes. It will take a while, but it will > work. > Eventually. > > Now consider a smartly modern shop that has taken the advice of a > generation of hired gurus and eliminated 'real tape' altogether. No more > physical tapes. No more physical tape drives. > > What would be your sage advice? > > . > . > J.O.Skip Robinson > Southern California Edison Company > Electric Dragon Team Paddler > SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager > 323-715-0595 Mobile > 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW > robin...@sce.com > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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