Re: SAVCHGOBJ

I will be interested in Al's presentation.

Dare


----- Original Message -----
From: "Graap, Ken" <keg@nwnatural.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Cc: <fiona.fitzgerald@notes.royalsun.com>
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 8:55 PM
Subject: RE: SAVCHGOBJ


> Fiona -
>
> I agree with Al. Always save access paths...
>
> You should investigate using the Save While Active feature of SAV/RST to
> reduce your application offline time while doing backups too.
>
> I B/U over 300GB a night using BRMS/400, our 3590 tape drives and the Save
> While Active feature. Our production applications are only unavailable to
> users for about 25 minutes a day and that is at 3AM... The end user hardly
> even notices the downtime and I backup everything I need for a quick and
> easy recovery.
>
> Al has a great presentation on Save While Active that I bet he would send
> you, if you asked nicely...
>
> Kenneth
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: fiona.fitzgerald@notes.royalsun.com
> [mailto:fiona.fitzgerald@notes.royalsun.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 3:02 PM
> To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject: SAVCHGOBJ
>
>
>
>
> We backup changes , without the access paths during the week, & do a full
> SAVLIB *ALLUSR at weekends with access paths.
> Should the nightly save changes job save access paths just like the weekly
> full saves ?
>
> We've been using this strategy to minimise tape & offline batch-window
> usage for 5 years, but I'm wondering if this is wrong for effective
> disaster-recovery, when it slows down to rebuild them. Our application
> files rarely change, only the pgms get upgraded weekly. Does anyone have
an
> opinion on the pros & cons of this ?
>
> Fiona
>
>
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