Don't worry about the clarity of your postings, we all need to refine our descriptions through repetition. Okay, you are running maintenance on first-level and you do not have a CMS or minidisk level product to backup
your allocations. Figuring out what minidisks VMSES will use for any particular component is possible via the PPF and the user directory, but is too detailed for what you want to do. You want to run one quick process t o backup everything, then apply maintenance and if necessary run one proces s to restore everything. We can't quite give you that yet. But Tom Huegel has it right. A two part process, one part to backup your entire DASD subsystem (510RES, 510W01, 510W02, 510Wxx, etc). Do not backup the page or spool volumes with DDR. T he second part is to backup all of the SPOOL files using the SPXTAPE command . When you do have to restore back to this point-in-time, you can use DDR standalone to restore the DASD, then IPL and do a CLEAN NOAUTOLOG start. At this point, you can be on OPERATOR, mount the tape containing your SPXTAP E backup and use SPXTAPE LOAD to restore all the files, and then shutdown reipl to restart your restored system. /Tom Kern /301-903-2211 On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 11:33:58 -0500, Anne Crabtree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I would be applying on a first level system. I have no idea what minidi sks are affected. I've only done maintenance twice, once the long way (with IBM here and it was no picnic) and the second time where it was a complete me ss. >Can I use DDRXA and just backup 510RES and 510SPL? Will that be good enough? If there are problems, can I restore both and be ok? Sorry, I guess I wasn't clear enough!
