On Oct 7, 2007, at 8:46 AM, George Dranes wrote:
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?
George,
Sorry I had a longer reply set up but my poor system crashed. I will
shorted my reply to this put a volcount into the output of your run.
There is dumpsmfxy program that (was?) supplied by IBM that makes
life a little easier (loook on the CBTTAPE.ORG for it in case IBM has
dropped it.
As other has said it depends on the importance of your SMF data, but
remember this if you need it next year to prove you need a faster
processor and you don't have it tough luck. Its a reasonable item to
keep safe for at least a year (or maybe longer).
Ed
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