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

Art,

I agree absolutely about GO ASSIST for a Full System Save, but wouldn't it
be great if IBM added one little feature - the ability to schedule it 3 or 4
days in advance? I've been begging for this so that I can advise customers
to use it on Sunday Nights, so that when they come in on Monday morning,
"voila!", ready, pop the tapes in storage, away you go!

Ah, in the ideal world ......

----- Original Message -----
From: "Art Baker" <Art_Baker@baan.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 4:44 AM
Subject: RE: DR Plan - Got one? Will it work?


> 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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