RE: Tape backup strategy

True, but it's rather tough to do hardware compression on a save file.

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Software compression is very expensive from a CPU perspective.

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Add DTACPR(*YES) to your SAVLIB commands to use compression on the save
file.  That should dramatically reduce the amount of disk space required
for the SAVF.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Morrison [mailto:smorrison@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 1:28 PM
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Subject: RE: Tape backup strategy

The previous message was incomplete.

The simplest approach is to save to a savefile, on the AS/400, then save
the savefile to tape during the day. Do you have enough empty disk space
to accomplish this?

The command would be SAVLIB LIB(libname) DEV(*SAVF)  SAVF(savefile)

The save file will have to be created before you run this command.

To copy the savefile to tape use   SAVSAVFDTA SAVF(savefile) DEV(TAPxx)


Steve Morrison
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