RE: Slow RUNBCKUP after V4R5 to V5R2 upgrade

Nathan,

I believe that between V4R5 and V5R2 some of the *IBM and *ALLUSR
libraries switched between those two categories.  If you are referencing
those designations, (I've forgotten the RUNBCKUP options), then it's
possible that you are saving additional libraries.  If you have the
opportunity, it wouldn't hurt to display a before and an after tape to
see if you've got more stuff on the latter, then you can track back to
why that happened.

If this is the system where you designate certain libraries do be saved
daily, weekly, or monthly, I also recall that all new user libraries will
be flagged to be saved daily.  If you have new libraries in your list,
you may need to remove them.

I see RUNBCKUP on the V5R2 InfoCenter, so I imagine that the command is
still supported.  It's likely that either the defaults have changed or
you're saving some stuff that you did not previously save.

Regards,
Andy Nolen-Parkhouse

> Hi,
> 
> Anyone experience any changes in the amount of time it takes to backup
> using RUNBCKUP after upgrading to V5R2 or even V5R1?
> 
> We have seen backups take one hour extra after the upgrade.
> 
> Running SAVLIB doesn't seem to have slowed down, just RUNBCKUP.
> 
> Our disk usage is almost identical after the upgrade so it can't be
> that.
> 
> It is running on a 720.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Nathan Simpson