RE: Save While Active Question

["Ingvaldson, Scott" <scott.ingvaldson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Save While Active is a wonderful thing.  It does not, however, negate
reading the joblog afterwards.  Of course there is a TAATOOL, CHKSAVRST,
that is very helpful in analyzing backup joblogs.

It is not a requirement to save every single object on the system to
have a perfectly valid recovery tape.  Only the SysAdmin can decide
this, but the MGTCOL object that you point out not being saved here will
be all but useless in a DR situation when you restore to a different
machine.  If that object is missing in a recovery secenario it will
automatically be recreated.  I would consider omitting the performance
data library from some backups entirely, unless you have a true business
need for this data.

Instead of using SAVACT *SYSDFN try using SAVACT *SYNCLIB and setting
the Save active wait time to a small number like 10 seconds.  Run a test
backup and see if anything gets missed.  Then you'll know that you have
maintained a consistent state between your objects.

Other things that you might consider when writing a SWA backup is ending
just the items that cause problems and leaving the rest running.  For
example, I usually put an ENDTCPSVR SERVER(*MGTC) before a SWA backup
and a STRTCPSVR SERVER(*MGTC) after.  That saves you the time of
checking out bogus "not saved" messages every day.

Regards,

Scott Ingvaldson
Senior IBM Support Specialist
Midwest Region Data Center
Fiserv.



-----Original Message-----
From: rob@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:rob@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 7:28 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Save While Active Question

Do not assume that a Save While Active will save everything.
SAVLIB LIB(QMPGDATA) SAVACT(*SYSDFN) ...
CPF3761
Cannot use MGTCOL Q114000024 in QMPGDATA. 
MGTCOL Q114000024 is locked by another job
CPF3771  429 objects saved from QMPGDATA. 1 not saved.

I did some checking on a far busier system and didn't see any hits in
the joblog for 'not saved' instead of some stream file data I need to
review.

Rob Berendt
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