Power 7 IBM i daily backup to Network

Bill,



I have been testing with the daily backup to the network to see what the
file size will be and to configure an unattended backup process.

The file size is just under 10g. If we run this once a day on business days
only and we keep a 2 week rotation then we are going to need 100gig of
storage.

If we back up every night then we need 140 gig.



At 10 gig the network save is saving less data than is being saved on the
daily tapes. The daily save tape is over 22 gig and includes what is termed
*ALLUSR (all user), libraries. This means any non-system libraries,
including a number of product libraries that are IBM supplied.



The libraries I am including in the network save consists of all of the
Goelet data libraries and any custom source libraries (program source code
that I and previous developers have written). In this way we have the
latest data and any programming changes that have occurred since the prior
full system save.



I am not sure how much this buys us in the sense of saving time or
resources. But it does get our current data backed up and replicated,
correct?



On further review - If we state that all we really want to do is to be able
to replicate the latest data from the IBM I and JDE then I can reduce this
file size even more, because there are only 3 data libraries that are
important from the standpoint of Goelet's daily accounting activity.



Let's talk some more.



Paul



Paul Therrien

Andeco Software, LLC

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