I'd love to be able to put all my SDFs on one pack (or a specific set of
packs). Kind of like the old SNT area, only with all the new bells and
whistles... Then I could just DDR (or backup from MVS for "those
sites") and have a full VM system backup (not counting user data or user
spool).
Lee
Schuh, Richard wrote:
The only truly workable way to insure that they go on the one pack where you
want them to go would be to add a new pack reserved for the NSSes similar to
the way DUMP packs are reserved for dumps. You could not put all SDFs on the
pack, else it might get filled with TRFs.
Regards,
Richard Schuh
-----Original Message-----
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Behalf Of Rob van der Heij
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 2:34 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Saving a backup copy of NSSs with no tape drive
On 9/11/06, Schuh, Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
That might work in a small shop, but the only time it would
work here is immediately following an ipl, and then only if
NOAUTO is the reply to the first message.
Back when
I was concerned about such things, I have considered to
even drain all
but one spool pack while build an NSS so that you keep
the entire file
on a single pack.
How come? I would not be concerned to also have some other (small)
spool files on that same pack, just want to prevent the NSS spread
over multiple volumes. So I would drain the volumes once I get close
to building the segments.
But if CP could do it right, you could have a single pack hold only
all NSS files and do a DDR copy of the pack on a running (test) system
and pick up that pack when you IPL the new system in production.
Rob
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