Re: Back up questions

If you've got the DASD available, look into having a library containing a
save file named for each library you want to back up. Don't forget the IFS
stuff, the configuration objects and the security data. Save the libraries
and the other objects into those save files, and then you can save this one
"backup" library onto tape at your convenience, since you can bring the
system back up before the tape activity begins.

Also, do NOT reinitialize the tape every day. This will weaken the first X
inches of your tape (been there, done that). Add a reply list entry for the
message indicating that the tape has stuff on it. The appropriate response
is I for ignore. The SAVLIB will happily write over what was there from a
previous backup.

Paul Nelson
Arbor Solutions, Inc.
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708-923-7354 Home
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Wills, Mike N. (TC)" <MNWills@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange - Midrange-L (E-mail)" <MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 3:05 PM
Subject: Back up questions


> Hi all,
>
> I have a backup question for you. We are starting to have problems with
our
> backups and getting everything on our tapes. I don't know how much detail
> you want. But basically we are doing a "SAVLIB *ALLUSR" and excluding
> non-essential libraries. This is obviously not a real good situation. We
> have one system going across 2 tapes now, but we have to initialized them
> daily. I have heard about SAVCHGOBJ but we aren't 100% sure how that
works.
> How would we restore a backup then? We would like to try and not get a new
> tape drive, but might have to in the future. We are getting to the point
> that we can't do a single tape anymore does anyone have any suggestions to
> either cut down the size of the backup or to change our backup procedures?
>
> Mike Wills
> iSeries Programmer
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