Other than an encryption tape drive, there is no real other options for disaster recovery.
i.e. standalone utilities don't like encrypted tapes. One of the items somewhat discussed at WAVV was having a "clean" system for standalone purposes. That is a copy of VM (VSE or Linux whatever your flavor), that doesn't have any of your data on it. You can backup and do standalone restores of the clean copy without hitting legal problems. Once you have this "clean" system running, you can take software based, encrypted tapes and restore them to "other" packs. Then IPL your production systems. I've had a disaster recovery "starter" system for years, but I never thought about making it a "clean" system. Obviously, much easier under VM, but also doable with LPARs. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting >>> Aria Bamdad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 6/12/2007 9:58 AM >>> Has anyone developed any solutions for encrypting DDR DASD dump output on tape? I am looking into encrypting DASD dumps by DDR that will be used for disaster recovery. One solution would be to use VMBackup's encryption option and do a physical dump of a DASD but was wondering if there are other options that are native to CMS. Thanks. Aria.
