Re: SAVF from V5R3 to V4R5 -- MIDRANGE-L

Wayne

This can be an all AS/400 solution, too. The virtual optical drive is really an IFS object the size of a CD (or DVD for that matter). At V5R3 you can create an image catalog with multiple entries. The save will span them, just as it does with tape. Then the corresponding IFS files can be FTP'd to your V4R5 system - again, it's just an IFS object - no VRM information in that object, only in its contents. And you have the extra benefit that you can burn the images to plastic if you want.

Vern

At 02:41 AM 3/29/2005, you wrote:

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.

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