Re: Run SAVRSTLIIB to same machine

[Jerry Adams <jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Evan Harris wrote:

> Hi All
>
> I don't know if this even possible, or what other options there might 
> be, so feel free make any suggestions at all.
>
> I have a customer who wants to take a snapshot of a set of libraries 
> at a point in time each night. The obvious method is to save the 
> libraries to save files and then restore them to different libraries, 
> named appropriately, There are however a number of environments on 
> this machine so space is something of a concern. If possible I would 
> like to avoid recommending additional disk just for the purpose of 
> save files, although I'm prepared to do this if it is the only 
> practical solution.
>  

We take a "snapshot" of our production (data) libraries every night 
simply using the CPYLIB command.  As long as all of your LF's are, also, 
in the same library, I would think that this would work - if I 
understand your purpose. 


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