Re: Recovering NWSD

there are two ways to save a virtual IBM i(or other hosted OS).

you can do your saves from the hosted OS, and therefore your recovery is from those saves.

you could also save the NWSD storage objects. Those should be considered a “point in time” backup as you are saving the “disk image”. you cannot restore individual objects, just the whole thing.

which you choose depends on how you would want to recover the system.

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/ssw_ibm_i_73/rzahq/restoringnwsdanddisks.htm <https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/ssw_ibm_i_73/rzahq/restoringnwsdanddisks.htm>

GL

Bryan

On Nov 1, 2017, at 8:01 AM, Ian Edmonds <IEdmonds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Bit of an odd query, but what is the impact of rebuilding a virtual iSeries from scratch (if you have retrieved the config via RTVCFGSRC) as oppose to restoring it from tape?



The reason I ask is that the image we have on tape is huge. We save the entire IFS to a VTL using BRMS only on a restricted state backup and it is taking up a lot of space on our VTL and takes a long time. We also backup the virtual iSeries in the normal way, again using BRMS.



If I could skip backing up the NWSD object, it would help.



Note: the virtual iSeries is test, not live and it is hosted on a development machine.



Ian


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