RE: DR Plan - Got one? Will it work?

At 11:00 AM 04/03/2000 -0700, you wrote:

SAVALLCHG and RSTALLCHG have been around since the S/38 days, and there 
tests were initiated frequently by a device named 3370.

You can do a good job checking for tapes by uniquely initializing each tape 
with a different volume ID, and then running PRTERRLOG *VOLSTAT to look for 
bad ones.  This this print out shows that they are bad, throw them away.

Al


>I agree with the method, but how often do you test the restore??
>Can we just assume the tapes are good?
>Jim K
>
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>From: Al Barsa, Jr. [mailto:barsa2@ibm.net]
>Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 10:27 AM
>To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
>Subject: Re: DR Plan - Got one? Will it work?
>
>
>At 11:02 AM 04/03/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>
>Hi,
>
>Our save strategy is to do a save option 21 periodically, and then to do a
>save of changed objects every day from every library, referencing the
>date/time of the save option 21.  We happen to use the SAVALLCHG command in
>TAA Tool, which predates SAVCHGOBJ's ability to specify LIB(*ALLUSR).  It
>addition we do a SAVSECDTA and a SAVCFG every day, both of which do not
>require a restricted state.
>
>IMHO, this is sufficient.  I welcome anyone who would like to challenge this.
>
>Al
>
>
> >Friends,
> >
> >Myself and others have spent the past 10 days or so assisting a company in
> >recovering lost data from a failed AS/400.  Trust me, it wasn't fun.  Now
> >the point is not that the 400 failed. (We all know that doesn't happen very
> >often).  What's important is that the backup and recovery plan of this
> >organization didn't work.  Some critical files could be recovered from the
> >previous night's backup, but others had to be recovered from a SAVSYS that
> >was almost 2 weeks old at the time of the crash.
> >
> >I don't wish to bore any of you with the details of the recovery, I just
> >want you to think about your company and your plan.  Do you have a plan?
> >  Have you tested it?  Have you tried a 'hot site' recovery?  Are there
> >manual procedures for the users while the system is unavailable?  The
> >information tucked away in that pretty, black box is a company asset.  Are
> >you doing all you can to protect it?
> >
> >Food for thought,
> >Sue
> >
> >
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Al Barsa, Jr. - Account for Midrange-L
Barsa Consulting, LLC.  
400 > 390

Phone:          914-251-1234
Fax:            914-251-9406
http://www.barsaconsulting.com
http://www.taatool.com

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