I've not had the opportunity to work with mirroring but sounds like your flashcopy to secondary is the same thing I'm doing minus the transmission. And, the purpose of a consistency group is to have a point in time copy across volumes.
Anyone else? Ken On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 5:44 PM, Jesse 1 Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > . > . > . > 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] > > > -----Original Message----- > 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
