Re: Restoring to a different machine. -- MIDRANGE-L

Hi Rob

I have encountered this situation a few times building boxes forupgrades/migrations

and I do what you noted regarding RTVSYSINF although I've occasionally struck

problems moving between releases. I generally UPDSYSINF for the individualcomponents

before deciding whether further remedial action is required.

You might have this covered anyway, but other items I generally have totake account of:

1. Restore objects for libraries QUSRSYS and QGPL omitting Q* objects andspecifying*NEW on the restore option so that only unknown objects are restored to thelibrary.I generally also examine the output but that this approach has worked wellfor me.

2. Migrating the directory entries if required. I generally output to afile using WRKDIRE

and then use a CL to repopulate the directory as required.

3. Migrating the hosts table if required. I have saved and restoredQATCHOSTS (checkthe name) to a different library and used a CL to add the host tableentries. Often it iseasier to either use the fiel to get them into the DNS or just re-key them(depends on

the number of entries and how clean it is)

Hope this helps

Regards
Evan Harris

Did a restore to a different machine last week for some offsite testing
purposes.  Now, if it was always up to me I'd do the boot from tape with
the system initialization option.  A compromise would be a boot from
install CD with the full initialization, then the LIC install from CD,
followed by the install of OS, etc from the backup media.  Then reapply
ptf's.

However, for reasons I don't want to go into here, they loaded both LIC
and OS from install media.  And loaded all LPP's.  How does one best
recover?  This is what I tried.  After the restore of the user profiles,
libraries, folders, IFS objects and authority from my save media.  Back on
the original system I did a
CRTLIB xxx
RTVSYSINF xxx
CRTDUPOBJ OBJ(Q*) FROMLIB(QSYS) OBJTYPE(*SBSD) TOLIB(xxx)
SAVLIB LIB(xxx) DEV(*SAVF) SAVF(MYLIB/MYSAVF)
ftp'ed that bad boy over
CRTDUPOBJ the sbsd's back over
UPDSYSINF xxx

I'm thinking of adding a RTVSYSINF and the appropriate CRTDUPOBJ's to all
of my preinstructions to a complete system save.  That way I have the data
on the tape.  Any other suggestions?

Rob Berendt