What level of z/OS are you running? What are you currently using for backup/restore? IEBCOPY, DFDSS, etc..
With z/OS you should have DFDSS to back up and restore Do you have DFHSM? Lizette > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of venkat kulkarni > Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2017 7:38 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Backup and restore process > > Hello Group, > > > > We are using IBM 3590 two tape drive with our z/OS systems. Currently we don't > have any third party backup software for backup and restoration. > > Now, we are in the middle of standardize the backup and restoration process. > We have daily backup Jobs, running into single tape volume, So by following > this, in one year we are consuming 365 tape volume and then we reinitialize > the first volume again. > > But to test the restoration, we don’t have any process or tool to do. For > example, > > We mount every tape and then try running restoration Job and read data from > that to make sure restoration process works. > > > > Do we have any free tool/utility to setup this whole process in much better > way. > > > > Please suggest. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
