> > 2) Keep automatically produced daily reports to minidisk, printed to > hardcopy at least weekly, showing: > a) the current location of critical minidisks. The list should be > quickly searchable by sorted userid and mdisk (e.g. "Where's MAINT's 02C2 > disk with the "USER DIRECT" file? Or... the appropriate DIRMAINT, > VM:Secure, etc. source directory disk)? Where's the backup catalog disk > located? > b) what's located, and where, on each real DASD (e.g. DASD VMU001 was > trashed, what did we lose?). > c) the allocation bitmap on each DASD. That will show the DRCT, PAGE, > PARM, PERM, SPOL, or TDSK allocations when you don't have a way to look > back at what once was. >
It's a good list, but I would add under (2): d) If you are sending the backup tapes to offsite storage, make it a part of operations procedures to produce these critical reports in hardcopy and send them *with* the tapes offsite. Be prepared to do a DR test using only the contents retrieved from the offsite storage and a DR procedure manual stored at the DR site. Empty your pockets, please... OK, a pen is allowed. ;-) Ivica
