RE: DR Plan - Got one? Will it work?

[Jim Knight <jknight@xxxxxxx>]

I agree with the method, but how often do you test the restore??  
Can we just assume the tapes are good?
Jim K

-----Original Message-----
From: Al Barsa, Jr. [mailto:barsa2@ibm.net]
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 10:27 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: DR Plan - Got one? Will it work?


At 11:02 AM 04/03/2000 -0400, you wrote:

Hi,

Our save strategy is to do a save option 21 periodically, and then to do a 
save of changed objects every day from every library, referencing the 
date/time of the save option 21.  We happen to use the SAVALLCHG command in 
TAA Tool, which predates SAVCHGOBJ's ability to specify LIB(*ALLUSR).  It 
addition we do a SAVSECDTA and a SAVCFG every day, both of which do not 
require a restricted state.

IMHO, this is sufficient.  I welcome anyone who would like to challenge this.

Al


>Friends,
>
>Myself and others have spent the past 10 days or so assisting a company in
>recovering lost data from a failed AS/400.  Trust me, it wasn't fun.  Now
>the point is not that the 400 failed. (We all know that doesn't happen very
>often).  What's important is that the backup and recovery plan of this
>organization didn't work.  Some critical files could be recovered from the
>previous night's backup, but others had to be recovered from a SAVSYS that
>was almost 2 weeks old at the time of the crash.
>
>I don't wish to bore any of you with the details of the recovery, I just
>want you to think about your company and your plan.  Do you have a plan?
>  Have you tested it?  Have you tried a 'hot site' recovery?  Are there
>manual procedures for the users while the system is unavailable?  The
>information tucked away in that pretty, black box is a company asset.  Are
>you doing all you can to protect it?
>
>Food for thought,
>Sue
>
>
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