Rob: I did have a look at this article and thanks for the link. However the issue here is not trying to maintain a current copy of the data for disaster recovery purposes. We have I-Terra to do this and it's working quite well. All I want is a copy of today's data to use for testing and investigation purposes tomorrow. Our production, with a few minor exceptions, is shut down between 2:00 am and 6:00 am every day (and most weekends) so this would be the ideal time to take a copy of the day's data for use in our development environment. This also aids in investigating any problems that the production department had the day before. Saving and restoring the data doesn't seem to be the main concern. I've done a SAVOBJ on the data I need which took approx. .5 hrs. I then transferred about 17 GB to the other system and the restore of this data took about 5 min. which means that a restore of the full 85 GB should take about .5 hrs. Using FTP the transfer of 17 GB of data took approx. 3 hrs which means to transfer all 85 - 100 GB of data would take approx. 20 hrs. which is useless to me. It appears that the SAVRSTOBJ is the best solution.(Thanks to all who suggested this) I tried to run a test and got an error on the transfer :
SAVRSTOBJ OBJ(A*) LIB(MYLIB) RMTLOCNAME(MYLOCNAME) OBJTYPE(*FILE) SAVACT(*LIB)
ACCPTH(*YES) MBROPT(*ALL) ALWOBJDIF(*ALL) RSTLIB(SPSL)
Route to specified location not found.
An error occurred during the SAVRSTOBJ operation.
We changed the location name using CHGNETA to be MYLOCNAME but this didn't seem to help. Does anyone know if I have to IPL for this to take effect or is there something else I have to do here?
Thanks to the list for all the suggestions and links. I have been investigating them all and am learning a lot which might not help me in this instance but I imagine will come in handy in the future.
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Brian Piotrowski
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2013 8:24 AM
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Subject: RE: Data Transfer
Oops, I overlooked that second paragraph. Thanks, Rob.
/b;
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Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2013 3:35 PM
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how about the second paragraph then?
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From: Brian Piotrowski <bpiotrowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Date: 09/05/2013 02:58 PM
Subject: RE: Data Transfer
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We're already running iTera on our Prod -> DRP machine, and I doubt Senior Management would have an appetite for adding another node into the mix (at a cost), so we're basically looking for either a freeware / IBM supplied / homegrown solution.
/b;
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mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of rob@xxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2013 1:45 PM
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Mimix? Not only do they have a HA product but they also have a replicator product.
Roll your own Google "high availability on a shoestring" or something like that, by Larry Youngren.
Rob Berendt
midrange.com
