wanda,

  thank you VERY much.. i was able to try it at my home site and it worked...

tim


"Prather, Wanda" wrote:

> Yes, files can be restored directly from copy pool tapes.
>
> If your primary tape is marked as Destroyed or Unavailable, AND the copy
> pool tape is available (read only or read/write), *SM will just go ahead and
> mount the appropriate copy pool tape.
>
> So when you get to your recovery site, you will need to mark the 4 primary
> tapes as "Destroyed" or "unavailable".  Then you will need to mark your 4
> copy pool tapes as "read only" (instead of OFFSITE).  That's it!
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tim Brown [SMTP:tbrown AT CENHUD DOT COM]
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 8:23 AM
> > To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> > Subject:      restore of primary storage pool from copy storage pool
> > question ???
> >
> >
> >
> > have primary storage pool with 4 volumes, have copy storage pool with 4
> > volumes.
> >
> > situation:  will be testing our os390 system including adsm restoration
> > at our disaster
> > recovery site. would like to leave the primary storage pool volumes at
> > my production
> > site and take only the copy storage pool tapes to the disaster site.
> >
> > question 1 : can files be restored directly from copy storage pool
> > volumes or do they have to
> >                   be restored to primary storage pool volumes first
> >
> > question 2 :  if i marked the 4 primary storage pool volumes as damaged
> > once i was at
> >                     the disaster site would the restore storage pool
> > command then recreate
> >                     4 new primary storage pool tapes or would the 4 copy
> > storage pool tapes just get.
> >                     flagged as primary without an actual copy being
> > done...
> >
> > tim brown
> > chge
> >  << File: Card for Tim Brown >>