Re: Full system save 21 schedule

[Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Evault does not do bare metal restores.

You need IBM i save media (such as a save 21) to first install the LIC and
OS, then QGPL and QUSRSYS.  TCP/IP has to be installed to connect to the
vault, then everything else can come from the vault.



On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 1:59 PM, Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I think part of my concern about how often to back up is just how one does
> a restore on such a device.
> From what VERY little I know this Evault uses it's own software to do
> save/restores and not IBM i save/restore, nor BRMS save/restore
> operations.
>
> How does one do a 'bare metal' restore?  Does that require that one always
> fall back to IBM distribution media to boot and install OS and PTF's?  Or
> do you do a traditional save outside of Evault?  With BRMS I've done 'bare
> metal' system reloads from Power 6's to Power 8's.  And this was using the
> EMC Data Domain VTL and no physical media.
> Stuff like this may affect your decisions about frequency and types of
> backups.
>
>
> Rob Berendt
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> From:   Gavin Inman <midrangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To:     Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   03/22/2018 01:49 PM
> Subject:        Re: Full system save 21 schedule
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>
> I recommend a minimum of Monthly.   If weekly downtime isn't an issue,
> then weekly.
>
> Gavin.
>
> On 3/22/2018 12:59 PM, Jeff Crosby wrote:
>
> All,
>
> What do you do/suggest as a full system save schedule?
>
> We did a full BRMS save 5 nights a week with our inhouse system.  Now that
> we are in a data center, they do Evault backups to an appliance.
>
> They will do a full Save 21 on whatever schedule we want.  They say most
> do
> once a year, but that doesn't seem like enough for me.  I'm leaning toward
> once every 13 weeks, meaning 4 times per year.  And I would try to
> coincide
> PTF applications to these Save 21s.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
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