RE: Automize a complete save

["Ingvaldson, Scott" <SIngvaldson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

An option 21 does give you a full system save, but does require a restricted
system, thus must be run from the console.  BRMS has a "console monitor"
that can automate this, and I believe that there is also a TAATOOL that can
do this.

If you don't have either of these, you can easily do your system save on a
monthly basis (or whenever you apply PTF's) and automate the rest nightly.
We manually do a SAVSYS and SAVLIB LIB(*IBM) monthly, then automatically run
the SAVLIB LIB(*ALLUSR), SAVDLO AND SAV weekly, and automatically run
SAVCHGOBJ OBJ(*ALL) LIB(*ALLUSR), SAVDLO DLO(*SEARCH) OWNER(*ALL)
REFCHGDATE(*SAVDLOALL), and SAV CHGPERIOD(*LASTSAVE) UPDHST(*NO) daily.  Of
course this means that I need three tapes to do a full restore.

Hope this helps,

Scott Ingvaldson
iSeries System Administrator
GuideOne Insurance Group               

-----Original Message-----
date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:12:52 +0200
from: "MITTELHEISSER Jean Claude" <MITTELJC@xxxxxxx>
subject: Automize a complete save

Hi all,

I know that's not a new question and I found some stuff on archive. But I
don't understand why there's no real solution about that.

As you know we had a great crash on a critical 9406-820 with OS 4.5 and we
found out our saves were not OK. Now machine and its applications are OK. We
think about making simple saves and fast recovery without mirroring. We
tested "go save" with option 21. It took 45 minutes to save whole system on
ultrium1 tape (hope we have all datas as it is explained in several docs).
This machine is critical, but has no application working whole night. So we
have enough time to save. I would like to automize "go save" option 21 to be
scheduled every night. I know the great difficulty is that we need whole
system to be stopped to be sure all datas will be saved. Some ideas ?

Regards.
Jean Claude
   
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