I suspect it will largely depend on the portability of the database backups
and the volume history files.

> ----------
> From:         Thomas Denier[SMTP:Thomas.Denier AT MAIL.TJU DOT EDU]
> Reply To:     ADSM: Dist Stor Manager
> Sent:         Tuesday, December 15, 1998 3:17 PM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      ADSM tape portability
>
> Someone from another ADSM site recently asked me about the feasibility of
> using an AS-400 as a disaster recovery platform for an MVS ADSM server.
> They
> envision installing ADSM on the AS-400, creating an ADSM database,
> restoring
> the database contents from a tape written by ADSM running under MVS, and
> restoring client files from storage pool tapes created by ADSM running
> under
> MVS. I am assured that the AS-400 has a tape drive that can read the type
> of
> media used by the MVS server. Given that, would the recovery scenario
> outlined
> above work? Could an analogous scenario be carried out with other
> combinations
> of operating system platforms? To what extent would DRM be useful in this
> type
> of scenario? I have looked over a sample recovery plan file created by an
> MVS
> server. I don't think the JCL portion would be very useful in other
> environments, but much of the rest looks as if it would be useful if it
> could
> be read successfully.
>