I've got a few execs that backup all DCSSes found in the spool, they can also be rebuilt, it can even restore everything unattended (AUTOLOG2 may start my server to restore all saved segs The "problems" are the NSS files (GCS and CMS). My code can deal with them too, but there are requirements: - Rebuilding GCS requires that the card deck to build GCS (the GCTLOAD file) is stored on the A-disk of my server, and the name of the GCS must match the mdisk label of MAINT 595 - Rebuilding the CMS NSS requires that MAINT 190 has the label of the CMS NSS, and a local mod to DMSINI is required so that an IPL 190 doesn't post a VM READ. Saving CMS and GCS manually isn't very difficult, so one could change the REXX code to skip them. I'll send you the code.
2008/1/11, Karl Kingston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > 2) We use FDR/ABR on our z/OS side for backing up for Disaster Recovery. > > We > > > would like to keep using FDR. Now I know I can get clean backups if > > the > > > systems are shut down. Are there any gotcha's if I take a FDR full > > dump > > > against say 530RES or 530SPL while the system is up? \ > > > > I strongly encourage you NOT to do that. The warmstart area and the spool > > volumes must all be consistent. If you must use FDR, then set up a 2nd > > level guest (with dedicated volumes, not mdisks) whose sole purpose is to > > provide a resting place for spool files to be backed up by FDR. > > > > SPXTAPE DUMP the first level spool to tape. Then attach the tape to the > > 2nd level guest and SPXTAPE LOAD it. Shut it down. Back it up with FDR. > > When recovering, use FDR to restore the guest volumes. IPL the guest, > > SPXTAPE DUMP them and then load them on the first level system. If > > necessary, you could IPL the guest first level, as it were. The nice > > thing is that the guest doesn't have to have the same spool volume > > configuration; it just needs enough space to store the spool files. > > > > Of course, if you only use the spool for transient data and don't care if > > you lose it, you can simply COLD/CLEAN start and rebuild the NSSes and > > DCSSes. > > Don't care about the spool. Can you provide a step by step to rebuild the > NSSes and DCSSes? > > Can't use SPXTAPE dump as we have no tape drives attached to either of the VM > systems. Is there a way to save the DCSSes and NSSes without a tape drive? > > -- Kris Buelens, IBM Belgium, VM customer support
