Re: Recovery in an unmanned location

[Roberto José Etcheverry Romero <yggdrasil.raiker@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ha, Quadstor, I've been meaning to play with that. I just found out about a
company that makes Thunderbolt 3 to FC adapters which means you could
actually build a VTL-in-a-laptop. With 2 TB NVMe drives and multiple bays
per laptop in the top end you could get a RAID1 2TB VTL in laptop
format...I wouldn't bet a company on it though.

On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 8:51 AM Steve Pavlichek <spavlichek@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Two simple low cost/no cost solutions:
> Do a full system save to the internal LTO with *LEAVE at the end instead
> of *UNLOAD. You always have a full recovery point in the drive.
>
> Open Source VTL.
> QUADSTOR VTL is open source and supports D-Mode IPL (Per support, I’ve
> never used it). You would need to build a server and add a fiber adapter to
> the Power 7. This would be a low cost solution but would be the most
> flexible solution and provide ability to have multiple backups available.
>
>
> From: Don Brown via MIDRANGE-L<mailto:midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2020 5:05 AM
> To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Don Brown<mailto:DBrown@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Recovery in an unmanned location
>
> I have been given the hypothetical question of how could a single
> partition Power 7 IBMi at V7R3 server with NO HMC and NO BRMS be recovered
> remotely ?
>
> As USB is not supported on Power 7 as an alternate IPL device that is
> ruled out.
>
> If I put the I-BASE01 DVD in the DVD drive.  I could initiate a D IPL and
> start a system install but I am not sure if I can get the system with ONLY
> the I-BASE01 to a operational level where I could then copy the remaining
> installation DVD images to a image catalogue or not ?
>
> System does have internal LTO tape so I could do a SAVSYS to tape and
> leave the tape in the drive.  Only one problem is the SAVSYS will eject
> the tape at then end and I don't know how to stop this ?
>
> Please do not ask about how the issue occurred or how the failure of
> hardware was resolved without manual intervention, as I said this is
> hypothetical!!!
>
> Any suggestions ?
>
> Thank you
>
> Don
>
>
>
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