RE: Tape backup strategy

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That's why we prefer the hardware compression feature on all tape
drives...

It would be nice if we could backup accross removeable (and AFFORDABLE)
disks like we can with Windows, linux, aix, etc....



On Sun, 3 Oct 2004, Al Barsa wrote:

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> Software compression is very expensive from a CPU perspective.
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> Add DTACPR(*YES) to your SAVLIB commands to use compression on the save
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Morrison [mailto:smorrison@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 1:28 PM
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> The previous message was incomplete.
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> The simplest approach is to save to a savefile, on the AS/400, then save
> the savefile to tape during the day. Do you have enough empty disk space
> to accomplish this?
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> The command would be SAVLIB LIB(libname) DEV(*SAVF)  SAVF(savefile)
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> The save file will have to be created before you run this command.
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> To copy the savefile to tape use   SAVSAVFDTA SAVF(savefile) DEV(TAPxx)
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