RE: SAVCHGOBJ question - rephrased

["Walden H. Leverich" <WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>From: Vernon Hamberg [mailto:vhamberg@attbi.com]
>I've just started to do something like this. I found
>that SAVCHGOBJ will keep saving the same things unless
>you have a SAVLIB in between. New objects have no SAVLIB
>date in them-or something like that. Someone mentioned
>doing daily SAVCHGOBJ and weekly SAVLIB.

Isn't that the difference between incremental and differential saves? With a
REFDATE of *SAVLIB you get everything changed since the last FULL save,
where your data area approach gives you everything since the last SAVCHGOBJ.

Both are valid save strategies, but one is more complex to restore. In the
*SAVLIB case you restore the SAVLIB and then the most recent SAVCHGOBJ,
where in your case you need the SAVLIB and _EVERY_ SAVCHGOBJ since the
SAVLIB. What you've saved in save time you've paid for in restore time.

Which is better? Depends on the tradeoff you want -- save or restore time.

-Walden

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