Re: system save

[MacWheel99@xxxxxxx]

>  From:    carolinehughes@eircom.net (Silent but deadly)
>  
>  I am doing my first sytem save this weekend, we are loading PTFs also, any 
> hints, tips, good concocktions for staying awake for 20hours??

Why do you need to stay awake the whole time?
Novels, favorite magazines ... regular meals to keep the blood sugar & 
caffeen at a reasonable high ... if you are reasonably sure some task will 
take say like 2 hours, take a break away from the office like visit movie 
theatre or go for swim at health club or visit shopping mall

Glance at the documentation, but do not burn out your brain trying to figure 
it out

In a safe place, out of the way, I keep backup tapes of

1. Complete System SAVE-21 immediately before PTFs or other updates applied, 
so that in the event of unexpected trouble with the PTFs, I can go back to 
that SAVE ... in 20 years of this practice, I have only needed to go to that 
save twice ... once when we messed up the PTF install & needed a restart & 
once in the middle of a string of PTF applies from diskettes, before CD Rom 
invented, we hit a bad diskette.

2, Complete System SAVE-21 pretty soon after PTFs all done, so that in the 
event of something seriously messed up in the time after this, we can at 
least go back to OS/400 at a known check point with latest PTFs on board.

Al Macintyre  ©¿©
http://www.cen-elec.com MIS Manager Programmer & Computer Janitor
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