I have decided to dump the initial live SMF to dasd rather than tape. So only 2 tape mounts would be required in this second step. We do have our job scheduler monitoring these dump jobs so if there is a failure we are paged and as I said before we only dump once a day, easy for the operator to keep an eye on it. Also, as I mentioned earlier, I keep multiple GDSs of the daily (along with HSM backups now) and weekly files so I could easily rebuild due to an error. We also keep monthly tapes which I will also have to convert from IEBGENER. I do keep a backup copy of the monthlies. Does this sound a little cleaner?
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