Re: getting the changed objects to a cloud partition

[Don Brown <DBrown@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Do you get the same option for DTACPR on the SAV command Rob?

Cheers

Don




From:   "Rob Berendt" <robertowenberendt@xxxxxxxxx>
To:     "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" 
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Date:   18/07/2023 02:28 AM
Subject:        Re: getting the changed objects to a cloud partition
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There are some pretty impressive compression options on the SAV* commands
themselves.
Maybe I'm only used to current versions of the software but check this 
out:
SAVLIB LIB(ROB) DEV(TAPVRT01) DTACPR(*ZLIB)

On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 11:37 AM Wim Jongman via MIDRANGE-L <
midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Ok, this is what I did in the end.
>
> Scenario:
>
> Did a complete restore from SYS A to SYS B
> Started conversion to 7.5 on SYS B
> Kept on working on SYS A
>
> The question was how to synchronize A to B for the changes that happened
> in the mean time.
>
> The solution I used was the following:
>
> * Do a DSPOBJD of all objects in an outfile.
> * Find all the objects that changed after date X
> * Collected all the libraries that needed to be synced
> * Used SAVRSTCHG for each library to sync the changes (with print 
output)
> * Transferred the printed output of all jobs to a file
> * Used some regex scanning for issues
> * Fixed the issues that arose
>
> * For the IFS I used SAVRST for the directories that we change. E.g. 
/home
> In the end, it could all be handled by the object connect function and
> some elbow grease:
>
> https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.4?topic=system-objectconnect-function
>
> Cheers, Wim
>
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> Yes, that would work, however, the image catalog object is not 
compressed.
> To save FTP time, after you save the objects to the Virtual Tape, save 
the
> virtual tape file to a standard *SAVF with  compression Medium.  We have
> found Medium is the best bang for the time spent compressing and we have
> seen as good as 70% compression rates.
>
> Example - if you have a virtual catalog as created below:
>
> |CRTIMGCLG IMGCLG(MYCATALOG) DIR('/MYCATALOGDIRECTORY') CRTDIR(*YES)
> ADDVRTVOL(1) PREFIX(ABC) IMGSIZ(100000) TEXT(catalog-description)
> TYPE(*TAP)|
>
>
> CRTSAVF  QGPL/MYCATALOG TEXT('MY COMPRESSED SAVE')
>
> SAV DEV('/QSYS.LIB/QGPL.LIB/MYCATALOG.FILE')
> OBJ('/MYCATALOGDIRECTORY/ABC01') DTACPR(*MEDIUM)
>
> (FTP QGPL/MYCATALOG to the new system)
> (Un-compress)
>
> RST ('QSYS.LIB/QGPL.LIB/MYCATALOG.FILE) OBJ('/MYCATALOGDIRECTORY/ABC01')
>
> Gavin.
>
> On 6/16/2023 1:35 PM, Wim Jongman via MIDRANGE-L wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Two weeks ago, we did a complete system save and restore on our new 
cloud
> partition. The thing is configure and now I want to get the changed 
objects
> there.
>
> Since I have no tape device there, I was thinking of creating a virtual
> tape as described herehttps://
> www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.3?topic=media-virtual-tape
>
> Then do a savchgobj *allusr to that tape, get the image catalog to the
> other machine, and restore the objects.
>
> Is this the correct workflow?
>
> Cheers, Wim
>
>
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