Re: Space required for SAVSYS

Hi Evan,

The question was: Can you save to a thumb drive.

If you save to virtual then the save can be copied to anything you want.

If you want to do a bare metal recovery/restore from that then that is
more difficult.

Apparently I am advised if you have 2 x IBM i LPARS and HMC and a NFS
Server on the source LPAR you could boot across the IP Network.

This red paper would help: redp4937-IBM i Network Install.pdf

So is this a good solution for a savsys ... Maybe not

Cheers :-)



Don Brown




From: "Evan Harris" <auctionitis@xxxxxxxxx>
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Hi Don

How do you actually use the Virtual Tapes "in anger" ? I am asking how you
would specifically use an FTP'ed SAVSYS - what would you do with the
image
that would make it usable other than copy it to tape ?


On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 11:24 AM Don Brown <DBrown@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

We use virtual tape regularly for these adhoc requirements, then ftp the
volumes to wherever we want.

Cheers



Don Brown



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My apologies in advance for my ignorance of some of the systems

operations

as I so rarely perform them. :)

If I want to do a SAVSYS at V7R3 (prior to OS upgrade), and save only

the

system (not any 3rd party libraries) any idea how much space I need, and
can this be done to a thumb drive on a power 8 system?

I've looked around and using a save file doesn't appear to be the best
option for this, and I'm guessing that a DVD may not be big enough. No
tape drive on this system either. I have tested thumb drives and they
seem
to work fine.

I also have seen about the PTFs required for thumb drives over 32GB that
are required.

Or, if I am barking up the wrong tree entirely, feel free to tell me

that

as well.

Thanks.

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