Re: Back up questions

A few questions:

1).   How big is your system?  DASD
2).   How big is your tape drive
3).   Does your system have lots of stuff that doesn't change daily.

The SAVCHGOBJ is a good solution, but restoring can be tough.

You have to restore the last SAVLIB *ALLUSR, and then overlay your changes
and IBM provides no mechanism for doing this.

See the following TAA Tool:

http://www.taatool.com/document/L_savallchg.htm

Maybe you just need to buy a bigger tape drive.

Al

Al Barsa, Jr.
Barsa Consulting Group, LLC

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914-251-1234
914-251-9406 fax

http://www.barsaconsulting.com
http://www.taatool.com





                                                                                
                                                          
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Hi all,

I have a backup question for you. We are starting to have problems with our
backups and getting everything on our tapes. I don't know how much detail
you want. But basically we are doing a "SAVLIB *ALLUSR" and excluding
non-essential libraries. This is obviously not a real good situation. We
have one system going across 2 tapes now, but we have to initialized them
daily. I have heard about SAVCHGOBJ but we aren't 100% sure how that works.
How would we restore a backup then? We would like to try and not get a new
tape drive, but might have to in the future. We are getting to the point
that we can't do a single tape anymore does anyone have any suggestions to
either cut down the size of the backup or to change our backup procedures?

Mike Wills
iSeries Programmer
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