RE: RstUsrPrf in a Disaster Recovery

Bill!

Please read the book!
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r3/ic2924/books/sc415
304.pdf 

An Option 21 restore is not one step, it is six:

1.)     RSTUSRPRF USRPRF(*ALL)
2.)     RSTCFG OBJ(*ALL)
3.)     RSTLIB SAVLIB(*NONSYS)
4.)     RSTDLO DLO(*ALL) SAVFLR(*ANY)
5.)     RST DEV('/QSYS.LIB/your tape drive.DEVD')
          OBJ(('/*') ('/QSYS.LIB' *OMIT) ('/QDLS' *OMIT)) 
6.)     RSTAUT

Steps 2 though 5 map into John's step 2 below.  Remember that you must
be in a restricted state to run a RSTUSRPRF with USRPRF(*ALL).

Regards,
 
Scott Ingvaldson
iSeries System Administrator
GuideOne Insurance Group

-----Original Message-----
date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 07:59:15 -0700
from: "Bill" <brobins3d@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: RstUsrPrf in a Disaster Recovery

John Earl wrote:
> Relative to security, the steps for a complete system restore are:
>
> 1.    Do a RSTUSRPRF from last night's SAVSECDTA
>
> 2.    Restore the most relevant version of all of the objects you want
> to put back onto the system
>
> 3.    Stop!!!   Don't let the users on yet!!!   You first have to do a
> RSTAUT to synch up all of the object authorities and the user 
> profiles.
>
> 4.    Let your users back on.
>
> You do the RSTUSRPRF first because the RST* commands will assign 
> object ownership to QDFTOWN if an object is restored and the system 
> does not recognize the owner listed on the object.


John,

It sounds like you are saying that I should do the Restore 21, then your
Step 1, correct?  If so, that was going to be my plan.  But doesn't that
sequence of events mean that any user profiles that were deleted since
the Save 21 will now be back on the system?  If so, that's the piece I
can't get a handle on; it would seem to me there would be a better way
to handle that situation.

And this will be my 3rd Scratch/Restore in the last month, so I'm
getting a bit more comfortable with it.

Bill