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Wow - "sucks to be you" Rob ;-) Seem like more and more of this going on that NEVER used to be a problem with the AS/400-iSeries on SIMPLE stuff ? I mean how hard should it be to save the system ? ? ! ! IBM has been in here working on a 9427 tape unit that damages tapes or either won't load or won't unload 8mm cartridges for a month on and off and pretty much everything has been replaced. They were in Friday and will be back in on Monday... This HAS been escalated to the highest levels at IBM and a Problem Resolution Manager (or something like that) has been involved (this after I used the iSeries Nation link to ask for an new tape unit for free at Christmas <BG>). The CE's are great and trying there best, but none of us likes this stupid thing that I inherited when I got here (and where I worked before, I had a 3590 - waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa).. Good luck buddy ! Chuck -----Original Message----- From: midrange-l-bounces@midrange.com [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@midrange.com] On Behalf Of rob@dekko.com Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2003 6:11 PM To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion Subject: LPAR weekend Having some fun this weekend. We are LPARing our 840. We contracted with a company to come in and help us. Plans were to start the save on Friday. Finish it 5am Saturday. Have IBM do an hour or two's worth of work. Then the consultant would spend around 13 hours setting it up. Backup got a 4 hour delay on Friday. Those of you who've heard my battle with pase / TSM. Well not even PWRDWNSYS would kill those jobs. (At least I got tired of waiting, 30 minutes.) Pushed the magic white button on the front to power it down. Hung for 15 minutes on one particular code. Just as I was about to start searching for circuit breakers, it started going through more codes and finally powered down. After restarting, we started the backups. A backup that normally takes 9 hours took 16. So instead of starting at 5am on Saturday, the IBMer got started at 4pm. I wonder why. Remember, we haven't started the LPAR yet. We expected some growth since the last complete save, but not that much in 8 weeks. Can't figure it out. Would it be something weird, like, after bring it down hard it touches each object on a save and 'fixes' it? We didn't do a RCLSTG because of a time crunch and that normally takes 7 hours. Funny how a normal 9 hour save and a normal 7 hour RCLSTG ends up being a 16 hour save. We'll be cutting it close this weekend... Rob Berendt -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin _______________________________________________ This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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