On Tue, 15 May 2007 15:57:37 -0500, Tom Moulder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Barry > >I just got my interest piqued a little by your question. So, here is what >got my interest -- why would you take full volume dumps if they haven't >changed in months/years? > I'm sure he can answer for himself... but I'll here is one answer. if you run backups every week and they have a certain retention period (say 4 weeks), you need to keep running them or you have no backups. This is much easier than looking at the data on every volume on an individual basis to figure out when you need to back it up and how long you need to keep it. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group: G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS and OS390 expert at http://searchDataCenter.com/ateExperts/ Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
