Re: SAVF from V5R3 to V4R5

[Wayne McAlpine <wayne.mcalpine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm trying to automate this fully so that a nightly job cna be run to do 
the backup and transfer the files.  This pretty much dictates an all 
AS/400 solution.

Bryan Dietz wrote:
> One other option is to use V5R3 ability to save to a virtual option drive.
> Then you could use that ISO image to write to a PC's CD drive.
> this allows you to save multiple libraries to the same virtual optical
> media.
>
>
> Check the info center:
> This link should help:
> http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r3/ic2924/index.htm?info/rzam4/rzam4virtualuse.htm
>
>
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> Bryan Dietz
> Aktion Associates
>
>
> midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 03/28/2005 05:48:42 PM:
>
>
> > Thanks to all who replied.  I've run a test by creating a SAVF on the
> > V4R5 system and FTP'ing the SAVF from the V5R3 system.  It appears to
> > have completed successfully.  I'm going to do it with a dummy library
> > and files to be sure that I can go in the opposite direction and do a
> > restore back to the V5R3 system.  If that doesn't work, I'll pursue the
> > IFS solution.