50 ICF Catalog Backup and Recovery: A Practical Guide
4.1 Recovery strategy
If a catalog is broken due to a structural error, or is not accessible because of a
hardware or media problem, it is likely that the catalog needs to be recovered. To
reduce the outage and its subsequent impact, it is essential to implement a
recovery methodology that reduces any down time to a minimum. To help you
accomplish that, the following sections describe considerations relative to the
recovery process.
Regardless of the techniques you employ, be sure to test your procedures before
you need them. Collecting SMF records and having a product, such as IBM
Integrated Catalog Forward Recovery Utility (ICFRU) or Mainstar Catalog
RecoveryPlus, installed are far from ...