In my opinion, this is the best reason for using raw logical volumes.  To
speed up disaster recovery.  You do not need to spend time with dsmfmt.

Another speed-up trick at a disaster recovery site is to come up with a very
small recovery log, say 100MB instead of 5GB or even 13GB.
The recovery log needs to be formatted again (twice, I think) even if using
raw logical volumes.  As the recovery goes on, you can later add more
recovery log space when time is not so critical.

-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph Dawes [mailto:jdawes AT CHUBB DOT COM]
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 8:59 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: raw logical volumes


Has anyone ever used raw logical volumes for the db when at D.R. ? and does
this cut out having to do dsmfmt? are there any drawbacks or benefits drom
doing this?








Joseph Dawes
I/T Infrasctructure - Unix Technical Support
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