Jeff, You really do need to teach your users that SPOOL is not an archive :-) We only back up the SDFs, and we regularly remind the users that ordinary spool files are transient in nature and are not backed up. They have the resources to save files they want to keep, so we do not feel bad about it. Ordinary spool files are purged after 7 days, so spool is at best only short-term storage. Even at that, it is usually in the 75-90% full range. There are 21 3390-03s devoted to regular files and SDFs and 2 3390-09s reserved for dumps.
Regards, Richard Schuh ________________________________ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Jeff Gribbin Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 8:33 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Copy files changed by RSU Franz Josef, If you move your production SPOOL to dedicated volumes, along with your WARMSTART / CHECKPOINT areas then, unless the format of the SPOOL control blocks changes (a rare occurrence and one which is always flagged in the documentation when it happens) you shouldn't need to restore the SPOOL files. (Of course, I'd always advise taking a SPOOL backup - "just in case" but, with a separate SPOOL configuration I wouldn't expect / plan to need to use it!) Regards Jeff (P.S. Whenever I've had influence over such things I have always modified COPYFILE to default to OLDDATE - it's saved my bacon on several occasions!)
