Re: Option 21 Save - QSTRUPPGM

IMO it's a good idea to at least *weekly* do a SAVSECDTA and a SAVCFG
along with your daily saves...but again that's just my opinion and for the
most part unless you have 10,000+ users and devices those saves do not
take that long.


Thanks,
Tommy Holden



From: rob@xxxxxxxxx
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 10/29/2009 10:14 AM
Subject: Re: Option 21 Save - QSTRUPPGM
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Excuse me, but is that a valid DR test? When a fire occurs will it give
you time to do a complete system save and send it off to your BP?

Ok, I think it's alright for your first iteration. Then one day should
come the "ok team, grab the last system save and last night's backup's and

let's go". That's when you discover the fun stuff like:
- Gee we added 300 users since the last full system save and we don't have

them.
- Anyone remember how to configure that printer that we got last week?
Wasn't that a bear?
- Smitty said that collection of libraries only needed to be saved when we

do a full system save. And the last system save was before the set of
libraries were created.
- What about all the transactions between last night's backup and when we
headed out today?


Rob Berendt