Re: Full system save 21 schedule

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.


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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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