RE: System Reload (was Pandemonium at Hot-sites)

["Allen, Stuart" <sallen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tim,

I'm restoring back to an Ibm business recovery machine.  When i did the
overnight tape it restored the printers......
I've now got '000s of pages of joblog to go through and see if i can spot
why!

Regards,

Stuart


> -----Original Message-----
> From: tshepherd@lia.co.za [SMTP:tshepherd@lia.co.za]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 7:46 PM
> To:   'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
> Subject:      RE: System Reload (was Pandemonium at Hot-sites)
> 
> Stuart,
> 
> You don't say if you are restoring back to your own machine. When I am at
> our D.R.Site, I don't RSTCFG, as the machine has a slightly different
> physical config and let QAUTOCFG do the work for me. If you are restoring
> back to your own machine, then ignore my comment, as RSTCFG "should" put
> it all back.
> 
> Tim Shepherd
> Fraser Alexander Limited
> Boksburg 
> South Africa
> 
> 
>       -----Original Message-----
>       From:   Allen, Stuart [SMTP:sallen@fellowes.com]
>       Sent:   Wednesday, September 29, 1999 10:49 AM
>       To:     'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
>       Subject:        System Reload (was Pandemonium at Hot-sites)
> 
>       As it happens, I'm in day 2 of a three day disaster recovery test,
> and have
>       just had my first "funny".
>       I have just restored a full system save as per the ibm disaster
> recovery
>       instructions.  When i do a wrkcfgsts *dev, all my display stations,
> comms
>       lines, tape drives etc are there, but absolutely no printers!!!!!
> 
>       They're not hard to re-create, but both the IBM engineer and me are
>       puzzled....
>       I'm restoring the nightly backup as i type; this has a savsecdta and
> a
>       savcfg, so i'm hoping it'll pick the printer device descriptions up
> of that.
> 
>       Anyone else (whose tested their DR plan!) has this one?
> 
>       Regards,
> 
>       Stuart
> 
> 
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