Re: Using SAVSTG to get a quick system backup

I think Al Barsa had a post in the archives that said things could be done with different configs but not without great difficulty. The help on the command does say that this is intended for DR, as Chuck mentioned. And the other assumption is just what you are saying - same hardware across the board.

We are in the case of putting this back on the same box after other testing, as Richard has said.

Pete Massiello wrote:

The key in my example is the same disk configuration, and in the guy in the
class you said had exact same disk configurations. I remember way back
using this for some saves, and we had problems with the restores because the
disks were not the same configuration, and then we had multiple ASPs to
complicate this even more.

Pete

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Subject: RE: Using SAVSTG to get a quick system backup

Pete, I went to a session at COMMON years ago about shops with "multiples". I had two dozen AS/400's at the time. I was small potatoes compared to those people. One guy said he created his remote sites from a SAVSTG of another. Completely identical physical machines. I was stunned. I thought the SRM or System Resource Manager, would have tossed it's cookies or something. But apparently he was getting the job done.

Again, his machines were spitting images of each other: cards in the same slots, same number of disk drives, etc.

Rob Berendt