Re: DASD Recovery

John,

>>Me oh my where did it all go?

>>I have a 9404 with 10gig.  I installed V4R3M0 (from V3R7) on Thursday and
went from 70% to 75%.  On Friday we began installation of Domino R5.  By
days end I was up to 87% and the vendor could not complete the installation.<<

BUY MORE DASD!  Seriously, you will spend more time finding things to delete
than it would cost you to double your DASD!  10 gig?  How much could it possibly
cost to double that?  I know, I know, IBM AS/400 10gig is not my PC's 10gig.
But really, anybody out there?  How much to add 10gig to John's system?  Yes,
your time constraints present a real problem with the solution I'm proposing,
but it sounds like you're going to need it sooner or later.

Last year, I upgraded a client from V2R3 to V3R2 and ran into the same problems.
I told the client before I started that they needed to clean up their small
system or buy more DASD.  In the end, because of the delays associated with
having to restart the upgrade twice, they would have paid for the extra DASD
they needed what they ended up paying me.

DASD is cheap.  Time is not.  (Unless you're a salaried person with no paid
overtime and no comp time, then, to your employer, "your" time is cheap!)

- Dan Bale





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