RE: Tape backup strategy

["Jim Hawkins" <jim.hawkins@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

We save our year end full sys (save 21) for 8 years
Our month end tapes (again a save 21) for 13 months
Our weekly tapes we save for 7 weeks
Our daily tapes we save for 28 days  (we were doing 21 days but the 
auditors said they wanted to see 28)

Daily saves involve all libraries with high activity (order entry, etc) 
and saved changed objects on libraries that see only occasional changes 
(i.e setup configurations)
Weekly saves involve all libraries that have high activity, setup and 
moderate changes and our test environment.  Changed objects on stable 
libraries (vendor programs, source code, etc. )
Our system has files, program objects and source in separate libraries. 
Modifications to vendor programs go into a special mod library.  So for us 
saving vendor program and source libraries outside of our monthly saves is 
being redundant.

Tapes are rotated off site on M W F  (This was a compromise between best 
practices and budget)

We use BRMS and this has worked well for us for the most part.

Before some one asks the question:  plastic manufacturing, custom 
injection molder
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 Jim Hawkins
 IBM Certified Specialist AS/400 RPG IV Programmer 
Jim.Hawkins@xxxxxxxxxxx 

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lose. -- Jim Elliot
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