Re: Saving Spooled Files (Was: Restore from SAVE Option 21) -- MIDRANGE-L

The easiest way I can think of - - - Spend $695 on SOQ from
Generic/WorksRight.
http://www.genericsoftware.com/

Take care.

>>> Jim.Norbut@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 03/11/03 04:24PM >>>
data queue entries and jobq entries I can live with.
the spool files is a different question.

I am being told I need to save those...and we have nearly 100,000.

Any suggestions?

We DO NOT use or even have installed the BRMS licensed program IBM
provides.



-----Original Message-----
From: Bill [mailto:billzbubb@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 6:05 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: 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.


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