Crickets. Fab. 😕
Here's what I'm thinking we should do:
Use DSS to periodically create flashcopy backups of our Non-SMS volumes
using COPY FULL or COPY TRACKS with FASTREPLICATION and
DUMPCONDITIONING. The flashcopy targets would then be dumped using HSM
BACKVOL with VOLUMES and DUMP (or perhaps be pre-defined to HSM as
PRIMARY volumes for automatic dump processing).
Restoration of a volume dumped this way would be done using HSM RECOVER
with TOVOLUME, FROMDUMP and TARGETVOLUME potentially followed by DSF
REFORMAT to CLIP the restored volume to the right volser, if necessary.
What I don't like about this procedure is having to use other utilities
(DSS and possibly DSF) independently of HSM to perform the flashcopy and
perhaps CLIP after restore, but I can't find a way in HSM to make a
flashcopy volume backup occur for other than SMS-Managed volumes. I have
done a LOT of reading, but I feel like I must have missed something.
I'm curious to learn how other shops handle this.
Thanks...
On 4/30/2021 4:27 PM, Ed Jaffe wrote:
To all Storage Management Gurus on IBM-MAIN:
What is the "best practice" procedure for creating a fast-replication
(flashcopy) Non-SMS volume backup?
FRBACKUP makes it easy for SMS-managed volumes...
Thanks,
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Edward E. Jaffe
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