RE: HMC Save Critical Console Data

I'd load the fixes and try again - a scratch install and reconfig of
your HMC doesn't really take that long anyway - in the off chance that a
fix breaks something.  I do recall there being a problem with that
backup process that was addressed in a fix.  I've never had any backup
to DVD take more than 5-10 mins. 

Plus - I'm hard-core, running HMC 6.1 - WOOT!  No problems here.


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Justin C. Haase - iSeries System Engineer
IBM Certified Systems Expert - System i
Kingland Systems Corporation

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 Has anyone run into a problem where the Save Critical Console Data
function runs for a long time and seems to not complete?  I'm trying to
run an initial backup of our new HMC and the first 2 saves have behaved
this way (the first one (18hours+) was due to an unformatted DVD, but
the second one was freshly formatted from the HMC for backup/restore(I
ended it and rebooted at around 4 hours).  Support has suggested that I
load MH00695, MH00746, MH00688, and MH00822, but i'd really like to get
a backup completed before loading HMC fixes (which will also be a first
for me).

Any ideas on why the process might not be completing?  It gives the
following status:

Backup starting...
Generating the list of files to archive...
Number of files to archive is: 1541
Creating archive file...
Offloading archive file...

At this point the DVD drive light is blinking every so often.


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