Re: Saveing everything

[Chuck Lewis <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Gary !

If you are NOT doing the SAV you do NOT have a recoverable backup/system !!!!

This "snuck" in and it was a month of so before I noticed it back when it first
came out (because we had always been manually doing the SAVSYS, SAVLIB *NONSYS
and SAVDLO) - it scared me when I realized it was missing !!!

SAV is the IFS stuff !!!

Chuck

Gary Kuznitz wrote:

> On 6 Oct 99, at 21:55, Larry Bolhuis wrote:
>
> > Chuck Lewis wrote:
> > >
> > > Jim Langston wrote:
> > >
> > > <We did the SAVSYS, SAVLIB LIB(*NONSYS) and SAVDLO.>
> > >
> > > And SAV (if RISC...) !!!!
> >
> >   Not 'if RISC' but rather 'if V3R1 or newer'!
> >
> >   - Larry
>
> Hi,
>
> I'd just like a little more piece of mind to make sure our save
> programs are up-to-date since going to RISC V4R4.  I've always
> used the  SAVSYS, SAVLIB LIB(*NONSYS) and SAVDLO.  What
> is this SAV you're talking about?  And I'd like to know where in the
> scheme of things the IFS gets backed up?  I'm also not sure about
> the details of:
>
> On 20 Dec 99, at 15:51, Rob Berendt wrote:
>
> > Jim,
> > The other overhead that option 21 has is very important.  Here it
> is:
> > SAV        DEV(yourdevice)
> >            OBJ(('/*')
> >            ('/QSYS.LIB' *OMIT)
> >            ('/QDLS' *OMIT))
>
> What does that actually include?
>
> Thanks for anyone in the know.  I'm using a backup program that is
> run from the console that does a ENDSBS *all *immed, runs
> SAVSYS, SAVLIB LIB(*NONSYS) and SAVDLO prints the joblog
> so the operator can make sure everything went fine and then IPL's
> the machine.  Does anyone have any other nifty tricks in their
> custom backup program that they wouldn't mind sharing?
>
> Thanks for everyone's great input to this list that potentially
> enhances all AS/400''s around the world.
>
> Gary Kuznitz
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