Re: BRMS - full save with least amount of restricted time

[Evan Harris <auctionitis@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jim

Ok, that;s interesting regarding QUSRSYS - must have been something I
was doing at the time. I've tended to deal with QGPL and QUSRSYS as
separate cases ever since so I may revisit that where there is a need.

Agreed about the recovery test - too many people want to just tick the
box that they've backed up , whether it can be recovered or not.

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 7:33 AM, Jim Oberholtzer
<midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Evan,
>
> I can't speak to your experiences but I have done dozens of recovery
> tests and I've only run into trouble with QUSRSYS or QGPL on very
> limited cases, and not affecting TCP.
>
> *SYNCLIB is a beast in that you have to get all the libraries in the
> list to checkpoint at the same time.  Important for some folks but if
> you do not have user database objects (meaning non-IBM) in either
> QUSRSYS or QGPL, I would not include them in the synch point.  Saving
> QUSRSYS and QGPL with a synch point of *LIB has always been successful
> in the tests I have run.  Again there may be some anomalies but as a
> general rule the save works quite well.
>
> A better reason to test your recovery I can't come up with.  If you have
> not tested your recovery, you don't have a reliable back up, regardless
> of what the system says it put on tape, virtual or physical.
>
> Jim Oberholtzer
> Chief Technical Architect
> Agile Technology Architects