RE: Using SAVSTG to get a quick system backup

I spent a bit of time doing some research to see if it would save me any
time instead of doing an additional backup for an upgrade I was working on.
The consensus seemed to be that it needed some rehearsing and that there
were problems on some of the larger disks (I was trying to do it back when
70's were the largest available disk)

In the end the additional work to prove it was viable outweighed the time
savings I would have gained so I just stuck with a 21. I'd still like to go
back and try this at some stage but there's no way I'd be prepared to use it
for anything without recovering a box that way at least once.

Regards
Evan Harris


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vern Hamberg
Sent: Thursday, 14 January 2010 6:14 p.m.
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Using SAVSTG to get a quick system backup

Pete

This will never go to a different system - it is meant for quick restore
after testing another OS version.

Vern

Pete Massiello wrote:

Don't do it. Take a little more time and do a GO SAVE 21. Much easier if
you ever had to restore to a different system.

Pete

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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Richard Schoen
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 5:34 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Using SAVSTG to get a quick system backup

Anybody using this method for backing up and restoring systems ?



We were going to do a SAVSTG along with a regular system save before
wiping a machine we're going to use for new OS testing.



Any thoughts or gotchas ?



Thanks in advance.



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Richard Schoen
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