--- Jim McDermott <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I've been away from the HPe3000 for nearly 2 years and just recently
> got a contract with a client to create a Disaster Recovery scenario 
> at an IBM facility with their HPe3000/979.  I used the client's CSLT 
> to do an install and tried to add volume sets and members after a 
> successful boot but have had major problems with drives "configured 
> but not available" errors.  I assumed that the client and the DR site

> HPe3000 were identical but found out that the DR site had multiple 
> EMC drives which the client did not.  I used SYSGEN to change the 
> drive id's which worked but I couldn't get the paths changed
> using the MAPPER listing data.  Could anyone help me and tell me what
> I need to do.

craig is right, you need to do either search or mapper while the box is
down to figure out what the DR system is seeing (or not).

this brings up a topic that i'd like to collectively discuss -- what to
do (or not) for dr systems.

as jim has rather painfully discovered, if you're doing true DR (that
is you're expected to bring up your mpe production system on a
unfamiliar box) there's a real challenge getting the hardware
configuration established.  (you can pretty well figure that you're
going to have a different architecture box (eg, you run 9x9 at
home...but your DR box is 99x or an n-class))  so that's one...

another discussion point is -- then what? you've got the hardware
straightened out and it's time to start restoring -- are there any more
gotcha's?

for folks doing modified-dr (where you have a distinct system with an
established config), i know there are files (especially in the sys
account) that you are *not* going to want to disturb.  again, are there
gotcha's?  (i'm in this situation, and i'm wondering about how to keep
the two systems insync for patches and other hp-delivered software).  
- d

Donna Hofmeister, HP-CSA  Sr. System Programmer
dgarverick -at- longs -dot- com
925-210-6631              Longs Drug Stores

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