We've been mirroring for DR for many years. In the beginning, with late 90s 
technology, we could not mirror spool. Now with FICON over DWDM we mirror spool 
routinely. I can't remember getting any error on JES2 restart after recovery, 
which includes flashcopy of the secondary (XRC target) copy to a tertiary copy 
that we IPL from.

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J.O.Skip Robinson
Southern California Edison Company
Electric Dragon Team Paddler 
SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager
323-715-0595 Mobile
626-302-7535 Office
[email protected]


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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
Of Ken Smith
Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2016 12:55 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: (External):Backup JES2 Spool & Restore with Warmstart

For those of us stuck with tape backup, physical or virtual, are you recovering 
JES2 and able to do a warm start?

I made the rash assumption that Flashcopy (space efficient) with consistency 
group across the spool and checkpoint volumes would work, but it does not - get 
checkpoint errors and have to do a format and cold start.

Read in JES2 manual that back up is not supported, however, not sure this was 
written before or after flash copy was invented.  Seems to me that at any 
instant in time the data should be consistent?  Also, disk mirroring should 
have the same problem but I doubt it does.

Thoughts?

Ken Smith
Comptroller of Maryland

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