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  • Subject: RE: DR Plan - Got one? Will it work?
  • From: "Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 16:16:51 -0400

At 02:44 PM 04/03/2000 -0400, you wrote:

I think that you are thinking about GO SAVE.

Al


>I'm not challenging you on this AL but adding to this thread, I never hear
>of anyone using GO ASSIST for doing saves on this list. It's a great menu
>system for saving data. If your doing an ENTIRE SYSTEM save, it will put the
>system in the restricted state and restart the system after it completes the
>save. For somebody like Sue, she could suggest to this company she is
>dealing with to use GO ASSIST.
>Art
>
>                 -----Original Message-----
>                 From:   Al Barsa, Jr. [mailto:barsa2@ibm.net]
>                 Sent:   Monday, April 03, 2000 11:27 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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