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I would add "How is the local Windows server backed up?" Or perhaps: "Is the local windows server backed up?" If it's not then this idea isn't even worth the time to consider it. Consider what happens when you have a 'smoking hole', 'swimming pool', or 'flattened pile' instead of a data center, where do you recover from then? In this situation it's no different than a customer with a tape library that holds a nice stack of tapes which they rotate through but never remove from the library. It's all very convenient but there are way too many situations where there is NO recovery option.

Remember the name of the book is the "Backup and RECOVERY guide." :-)

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 11/3/2017 8:22 AM, Jim Oberholtzer wrote:
Jim,

Sure it's feasible (always use command line FTP with binary option to move
the files) but a better question is how are you going to use those files to
recover?

If the plan is to lay down the OS from scratch and get it to the point where
TCP is running then OK, but I'd want to see the recovery plan first.

Moving 500GB is not all that hard, but speed depends entirely on the network
devices in between the IBM i and the PC, but also the PC. Be careful, many
PC Ethernet cards can connect at 1Gb, but only transfer data at 100Mb. Make
sure your PC has a newer card and drivers. Also make sure the ports on the
switch actually show 1Gb, since they may have been hard coded at some point
to fix issues long forgotten about.


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Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects

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Subject: backup to and restore from local win server

Is it feasible/reasonable to nightly backup savf from IBM I to local Win
server of qsys.lib libraries and selected ifs directories.

At V7R1, and total savfs should be .5 Tb ? There is room on disk for the
save files.

Don't know how to calc how the "real world" speed of such a transfer (shared
drive or ftp ) across 1Gb Ethernet.

. poor man's DR idea . any not obvious potholes to avoid?


Jim

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