Mike, I didn't mean to be smart, sorry if it came out that way. I just wanted to stress that everything you need to perform a DR, including hardcopy reports, utility tapes, DR procedure manual, CD's with software manuals, etc. has to be on a DR site or in the off-site storage, that's all.
Of course, mirroring makes that much easier, because your DR system is just waiting to be IPLed. You have to send less stuff off-site, a lot of it can be kept on disks. Anything that you may need *before* you bring up VM, and that answers questions "where is...?" has to be either in the DR manual or in the hardcopy report on the DR site. My recent experience is also with mirroring - two sites running half of production load each, disk mirroring each way. LPAR configs were identical between sites and DR meant logging on one second level VM on each surviving VM(*) and PROFILE and other EXECs would take care of the rest. But I still miss the good ol' days of walking into a DR site and actually *doing something* to restore the system. Oh, wait, maybe I don't. It's just nostalgia. I was just much younger then. :-) Ivica (*) I don't suggest this setup unless you have plenty of storage and zero paging in production LPARs. At least that.
