OK, I went back and looked. There were no errors reading the vtocs, however a review of the DFHSM logs shows many ARC0734I messages. The ARC0734I messages in turn point to ARC1158I, ARC1128I and ARC1143I, (various reason codes), all of which are documented as not being supported for incremental backup).
Once I looked at the RETCODE/REAS for these file it became obvious why recover from backup for dates prior to the WEEK2 Full Volume dump were requested. For the record, all of the error messages are recorded in ARC1158I, ARC1128I, ARC1143I. At this time, I consider the issue resolved. Thanks Glenn for the pointers. <snip> At this point, as far as I know, no errors were encountered. Since this was a DR exercise, I will need to double check for any related errors . The vtocs available were: Week1 Week2 DIIIIII DIIIIII (D= FULL VOLUME I= INCREMENTAL) Week 1 - FULL VOLUME DUMP, WEEK2 FULL VOLUME DUMP Week2 - (2) INCREMENTAL DUMPS representing the first two 'I" dumps in week 2. My thinking was that almost no data(if any) would be requested from prior to the week2 full volume dumps. Thanks in advance for you time and assistance. Please stand by. <snip> Did you happen to see any errors with reading the VTOC copy data set? From the Storage Admin: "DFSMShsm uses the latest VTOC copy data set to recover the volume unless an error occurs in allocating or opening the latest VTOC copy data set. If the error occurs, DFSMShsm attempts to recover the volume, using the next latest copy of the VTOC copy data set. If a similar error occurs again, the volume recovery fails." You indicate that you only have one VTOC copy. Does the date correspond to the Week 2 Dump date? I wasn't able to find any other logic that would cause HSM to recover data from the Week 1 VTOC copy. If the above don't apply, then a pmr could be opened to analyze the situation. Glenn Wilcock DFSMShsm Architect </snip> </snip> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
