Re: Save date of user profile Was: QSYSOPR user profile and GO SAVE 21

Yes it's easy to set up and it runs, however, have you ever tried to recover from those tapes? What's really on them in what order? All of this is need to know in a recovery, be it a complete casters up recovery or just getting back a library that got clobbered by a runaway program.

The dates that have been discussed give me pause to believe that a recoverable system resides on the tapes that have been created with that option, meaning I doubt it. I don't think that IBM provided software has been changed or updated in quite some time, IBM instead putting the development dollars into BRMS. I do think you can retrieve the CL source for quite a bit of it but I have not tried it in years.

A CL to back up daily/weekly can be spun up in 1/2 hour or so. Now you have complete control over what, when, and in what order, things got onto the the tape. Your chances of recovery go up by quite a bit now.

After all the only reason we back things up is to provide for a recovery is it not?

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 6/13/2012 10:59 PM, Mike Krebs wrote:

Presumably this means a SAVSECDTA has not been run.

That is what I was wondering about but the report from last night clearly shows Security Data = Yes.

The daily, weekly and monthly backups all have Security data option = Y.

What does your user profile have for a save date? What does your QSAVUSRPRF data area show?

I've run at least 5 21 Saves since 12/17/11 so I know I have newer security data than what it shows for the user profile. But I still don't know when the profiles were -last- saved.

> FWIW I have always hated the GO BACKUP option and avoid...

If we would buy something else, I'd be happy to use it. But why roll your own, when it so easy to use RUNBCKUP. Properly configured (10 minutes at most), it does everything one needs.
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