Re: How much tape left?

No doing a SAV and SAVDLO makes your system recovery very tenuous at best 
- there is an increasing amount of IBM code there.  If you don't use 
Client Access at all (hard to imagine), then you might skate by with the a 
copy that you did the first time.

It bears repeating that SAVSYS doesn't save any user data (unless you 
consider user profiles themselves "user data").   You really need an 
option 21 from the save menu (or equivalent) as a starting point for 
disaster recovery. 


Jeff Carey





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A SAVSYS is not a Save entire system.  It does not include most libraries
(SAVLIB), directories(SAV), folders (SAVDLO) among other things.  In fact 
a
SAVSYS on our machine takes 4 minutes.

Rob Berendt

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Is there a way to tell, programmatically, how much tape is left after the
last
saved object on the tape?

Specifically, I would like to know if I've got room left to save more than
what we're currently saving to tape.

Currently, we are saving only a specified list of user libraries and are
not
using SAVDLO or SAV because, I'm told, we're not really using anything
there
that we can't afford to lose.  I'm unsure as to the wisdom of that
statement.
We _do_ (supposedly) have a current SAVSYS for each of our boxes; our
nightly
backup includes a SAVSECDTA and RTVCFGSRC.

Dan Bale
IT - AS/400
Handleman Company
248-362-4400  Ext. 4952
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