RE: SWA help

["Goins, Kirk : CO IR" <KGoins@xxxxxxx>]

The idea was to get the locks faster and without problems dealling with
apps. Once the CPI3712 was issued I would start QCTL and let the users on. I
had hoped to reduce my  downtime from 4-5hrs to say 1-2hrs.
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From: Bob Crothers
To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: SWA help
Date: Monday, September 21, 1998 6:40AM

When you are doing a Quarterly backup in restricted state, you should
NOT use SWA.

SWA is for doing your nightlys while people might/probably are using
your files.

Bob

 -----Original Message-----
From:   Goins, Kirk      : CO IR [SMTP:KGoins@lhs.org]
Sent:   Saturday, September 19, 1998 4:42 PM
To:     'midrange-l@midrange.com'
Subject:        SWA help

We are starting to toy with SaveWhileActive and today's test failed
miserably. This was a test of a FULL SYSTEM save which we do each Quarter.
Here's how it went on our S20  Development CPU running 4.1  with .75gb mem
 with 55% of 100gb used. Doing a dspobjd on allobjsl yields approx  180,000
objs.

08:15   Signon at Console
        endsbs *all
08:41   savsys
09:13   savlib *IBM  swa(*LIB)
09:35   savlib *ALLUSR SWA(*SYNCLIB)
12:40   CPI3715 Save-while-active checkpoint processing in progress.
14:20   Still waiting for CPI3712...

Now If I had just did our normal backups I would be completely done by now.
Now in all fairness doing a few libs works great.

HEY AL!   Am I doing something wrong???

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