| Sumario: | ICF catalogs are essential system data sets. Even with today's high availability storage subsystems and processors, there are still situations in which you need to recover your catalogs. You should keep your catalogs healthy and be prepared for a recovery situation. Also, you need to be sure that your recovery procedures do not have a big impact on your production environment. To minimize the recovery process, you should have a clear backup and recovery strategy, and the proper utilities. IBM Integrated Catalog Forward Recovery Utility (ICFRU) and Mainstar Catalog RecoveryPlus are two of the available tools you can use to recover your catalogs. ICFRU is a basic tool to help you in a forward recovery situation. It does not offer a wide range of features, but is useful for catalog recovery. Mainstar's Catalog RecoveryPlus offers a set of features to help you in your ICF catalog environment maintenance. This IBM Redbooks publication provides information and practical examples on how to use each of these products in a catalog recovery situation. It also provides useful recommendations for storage administrators in implementing a catalog backup and recovery plan. It is not intended to compare the two products but to show how each of them work. This book also provides a variety of practical tests to help you with the different error scenarios you may find in your daily production activities.
|
|---|
