On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 10:59:02AM -0600, James Choate wrote:

> When a FlashCopy is initiated, the DB/Mail server that you are flashing 
> should be quiesced prior to the FlashCopy being initiated.

Us Symmetrix users don't have such a restriction. :-)

But for the original discussion: think about FlashCopy (or your storage
system's equivalent) as a way to restore your datafiles (in case of a
database) very fast. By restoring them from the FlashCopy, you don't need
to restore them from TSM.

--
Jurjen Oskam
Jurjen Oskam
"I often reflect that if "privileges" had been called "responsibilities" or
"duties", I would have saved thousands of hours explaining to people why
they were only gonna get them over my dead body." - Lee K. Gleason, VMS sysadmin