Re: Where is my IFS file on tape?

Is anyone using the IFSTOOLS?  Maybe that has a dspobjd "like" command for the 
IFS.   
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark S. Waterbury <mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 12:27:59 -0500
Subject: Re: Where is my IFS file on tape?


Hi, Larry:

I think you could run

    DSPTAP DEV(tap01) DATA(*SAVRST) OUTPUT(*PRINT)

against each tape after each back-up cycle, then save the spool files ...

Then, you would be able to search through the spool files to find the name
of the IFS file you are looking for, and you should then be able to tell
what tape it is on ...

(Not much help right now, as you would have to run this against all tapes
first ... how many tapes did that take?)

HTH,

Mark S. Waterbury

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Larry Bolhuis" <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 12:00 PM
> Subject: Re: Where is my IFS file on tape?
>
> We know which tapes were used on which days and what stuff is backed up
> each day. Of course what we don't have is a log showing every object
> that was backed up that day and on which physical tape. With i5/OS
> objects that is recorded in the object header. For IFS files it appears
> the information goes nowhere. Nice Eh?
>
>   - Larry
>
> Wilt, Charles wrote:
> > Larry,
> >
> > I believe you've uncovered a weakness in you backup plan.
> >
> > BRMS would be able to tell you, but it doesn't sound like you used BRMS
> > to do the backup.
> >
> > I take it you don't have a paper record of what was backed up when and
> > on what tape?
> >
> > Charles Wilt
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