ADSM-L

Re: Point-in-time restore

1996-11-25 17:07:42
Subject: Re: Point-in-time restore
From: "Belcher, Tamera L" <Tamera.Belcher AT PSS.BOEING DOT COM>
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 14:07:42 -0800
A work around answer that I received from IBM was to use the sched.log
to create a restore script to restore only the files that were marked
inactive.  Not a great answer, but at least somewhat functional.

>----------
>From:  Sam Sheppard[SMTP:SHS AT SDDPC.SANNET DOT GOV]
>Sent:  Monday, November 25, 1996 12:46 PM
>To:    Multiple recipients of list ADSM-L
>Subject:       Point-in-time restore
>
>I have posed this question/problem in the past and have never gotten a
>response one way or another from IBM.  Since the problem in question
>cropped up again this weekend, I will try one more time:
>
>A client had a hard-drive failure on an AIX box.  He replaced the drive,
>and then proceeded to start a restore of the lost filespaces.  However,
>he forgot the warning about shutting down the scheduler and sometime
>after the restore started, the scheduled backup started and marked all
>of the files as inactive, since they were no longer on the drive.  Now
>he faces the problem of getting hundreds of inactive files restored to
>the drive which he doesn't want (using the TODATE option), since they
>weren't there when the drive went south.
>
>Is a true point-in-time backup capability anywhere on the horizon??  We
>understand that this could have been prevented had the user followed
>procedures, but it still would be preferable to not have this exposure.
>
>Any hope that IBM could give in this area would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>Sam Sheppard
>San Diego Data Processing Corp.
>shs AT sddpc.sannet DOT gov
>
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