Re: Restore from SAVSYS (Option 21)

Jim,

I just went through this a couple of weeks ago.  It isn't painless, but it
can be pretty smooth.

It would have been painless if we hadn't experienced big problems with the
machine not wanting to alternate IPL from the cdrom drive.  After all was
said and done, we took a 6 hour hit because the drives had to be formatted.
It was a very good thing we did this on a 3 day weekend.

The manual you want to go through is the Backup and Recovery Guide.  Take a
look at the "Recovering your entire system after a complete system loss -
Checklist 20", "Verifying and Selecting an Alternate Installation Device
during a Manual Installation (only necessary if you aren't postively sure
your 8mm is not an Alternate IPL Device)", "Appendix D. Recovering your
server".

Are you aware you will lose your spool files, jobq entries, and data queue
entries unless you address these in advance?

Bill

Norbut, Jim wrote:
> We are going to be replacing all of our disk drives with larger models
> in the next few weeks
> on a weekend. (IBM is coming out to do the disk drive switches)

> Is there a redbook or website link that would help me prepare in
> investigating what
> steps are necessary to do the restore this way.

> I don't want to pay IBM $8,000 to basically watch the tape drive light
> as it restores unless it's a painful process to do this type of
> restore.