Re: Disaster Recovery test scenario

["Steve McKay" <mckays@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I appreciate all of the discussion of journaling and PF/LF restore issues 
but am surprised that no one has commented on the DISASTER library and my 
wish to restore only libraries on the daily backup tape rather than 
libraries on the save 21 tape.

Keep those comments coming  . . .

Steve

<ChadB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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Without analyzing each step, at a quick glance i'm surprised that I don't
see any journal oriented recovery steps to get more up to the minute
recovery results after you restore from your nightly save.  I've never
worked for someone with a DR site, but i'm thinking that if that expense
was to be undertaken, you'd probably want to get into some journaling to
better protect your data.  I can't imagine trying to reproduce a day's work
accurately for even a single department  (heck... even for a user!).
Journaling gives a lot of bank for the buck...


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List -

We will soon do our first-ever disaster recovery test.  I anticipate that
we
will be given a 'clean' machine when we walk into the DR site.  Is this an
accurate series of events?

Restricted State:
 - Load OS/400 and LIC (from save 21 tape)
 - RSTUSRPRF *ALL (from nightly save)
 - RSTCFG *ALL (from nightly save)
 - RSTLIB DISASTER (from nightly save)
    Note: We have a library called DISASTER which contains a 'restore'
version of our nightly
   'save' and a copy of the file containing the names of libraries saved in

the nightly save - QGPL
   and QUSRSYS are included in the file but not all libraries on the
system.
- Run DISASTER/RESTORE program to restore libraries from nightly save
- RSTDLO DLO(*ALL) SAVFLR(*ANY)
- RST DEV('/QSYS.LIB/your tape drive.DEVD')
       OBJ(('/*') ('/QSYS.LIB' *OMIT) ('/QDLS' *OMIT))
- RSTAUT

Questions:
How do you feel about the idea of having a DISASTER library with a RESTORE
program?
What problems would you foresee?
Will the process work as written above?

Thanks,

Steve



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