Re: Best Practice Question

Hello Rob,

Am 21.08.2025 um 15:55 schrieb Rob Berendt <robertowenberendt@xxxxxxxxx>:

IBM software only LPAR. Other than a small operations library. Purpose is
to control Safe Guarded Copy.
Created new with IBM i 7.5.
Ran a BRMS full system save awhile back. In restricted state.
The messages below are from those directories flagged with ATR(*ALWSAV)
VALUE(*NO):
(Note: These are from a screen and many are truncated. Assume truncation
if they do not end with a period.)
Cannot save /tmp.
Cannot save /fixes.
[…]

I'm not too familiar with all items in the IFS. The count — compared to V4R5 — exploded. So I can't say if anything in your list is missing from a Save 21 due to ALWSAV *NO and not being automatically recreated for whatever reason, per comment from Jim. To me this leaves some concern about possible loss of data or functionality due to ALWSAV *NO. Only one way (for me) to find out: Save 21, run find / |sort > /tmp/allobj.txt, restore (to another, temporary LPAR), re-run the command, transfer both files to a Linux machine and examine with colordiff -u.

Thanks for your ideas and insights!

:wq! PoC