As mentioned previously, CA V/Seg-Plus is configurable to keep as many previous versions as you want for potential restore ... I believe the default is 3 to accommodate Rob's suggested scenario, but again it's configurable.
JR JR (Steven) Imler CA Senior Software Engineer Tel: +1 703 708 3479 Fax: +1 703 708 3267 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2006 12:17 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Saving a backup copy of NSSs with no tape drive On Saturday, 09/09/2006 at 12:38 ZE2, Rob van der Heij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/8/06, Alan Altmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For high-tech backups, I'd tweak the *SPL system service to work with SDFs > > such that the guest would be notified when there's a new SDF, just like > > it's notified of new spool files that have specific DEST values. It could > > then read the SDF using the same mechanisms and do whatever it wanted. All > > Not too fast... such a high tech backup only helps for hardware > failure but not for the one between keyboard and chair. By the time > you realize you just replaced the wrong NSS, the high-tech backup > would already have replaced the old copy ;-) You mean your backups aren't versioned? Tsk tsk tsk.... ;-) Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
