>Point of order... > >If you're going to dump and restore the spool, and IPL Clean, is there >really a need to drain the volume? What purpose in the sequence would it >serve?
True, but if you use the SPFPACK tool as Alan mentioned, you can dump and restore only the files that have information on that volume and avoid the IPL. The steps would be altered slightly to: 1. Drain the volume 2. SPXTAPE DUMP PURGE the spool files that have data on the volume 3. Update SYSTEM CONFIG to remove the now-drained volume 4. SPXTAPE LOAD the spool files back (because the volume is drained they will not be restored there) 5. Detach the volume from the system The purpose of the SYSTEM CONFIG update is to prevent the volume from coming back on line at the next IPL, so technically it can be done at any step (I recommend it be done where listed once the data has been purged from the volume). Updating SYSTEM CONFIG doesn't affect the process of getting the data off of the volume and detaching it from the system. JohnFranciscovich z/VM Development
