RE: Storage dump

What ever caused the problem filled up about 800 GBs in 20 minutes (we have
a TB and it went from 18% to over 90%).  Is it possible to look at the tape
to see what files were modified/created after a certain time period?  Is
there any other type of detective work that can be done?

IBM said what was done was a "storage dump".

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jan Rockstedt
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 7:27 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Storage dump

The Save Storage (SAVSTG) command saves a copy of the licensed internal
code and the contents of auxiliary storage (except unused space and
temporary objects) to tape. This function is intended for disaster
recovery backup. Individual libraries or objects cannot be restored from
a save storage tape.

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r3/index.jsp?topic=/c
l/savstg.htm 



Regards Jan Rockstedt
Avinova AB
nic-hdl: JR1543-RIPE

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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Candidi
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 2:09 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: Storage dump

Something caused our system to chew up all of our DASD last night
thereby freezing our nightly processing and we were unable to IPL. We
got IBM on the phone and they walked us through doing a storage dump to
tape and then getting the system (810 on 5.2) to IPL. My question is,
how do I read this tape so that I can make some sense of what I am
looking at in order to debug what might have caused the problem. Any
help would be appreciated

 

John A Candidi

Rutgers Insurance Companies

IT Director - AS/400 Manager

856-779-2274

 

 

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