Re: Backing up, but NOT to tape

[Jim Essinger <dilbernator@xxxxxxxxx>]

Aaron,

Here is a quick and dirty - no warranty or guarantee implied.  As is code.
User takes all risks - blah blah lawyer speak stuff.

You have to create a virtual optical device (you could use tape here as
well, but we wanted to be able to burn the image to a CD or DVD if needed).

CRTDEVOPT DEVD(MYVRTDEV)
          RSRCNAME(*VRT)
          TEXT('My Optical Virtual Device')

Then Create the image catalog

CRTIMGCLG IMGCLG(MYIMGCLG)
          DIR(myimgclg)
          TEXT('My Image Catalog')
          AUT(*ALL)

As Vern has pointed out, your ADDIMGCLGE command has to specify correct
values.  Please see the programs at;

http://code.midrange.com/abb0904a7c.html


I did some size testing on what was being saved to come with the image file
sizes I wanted to use.  On our once a week save everything, I needed 2 DVD
sized images.  On the daily - save only what has changes since the last save
I have it set for 1 DVD sized image.  Yes - this means to recover data we
may need to load Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday's saves.  It was a
design decision by the boss.

HTH

Jim

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Would you be able to relay a sanitized version of the commands and their
> sequence?  I have worked with image catalogs on the IBM VLP systems, but
> there always seems to be a good number of steps involved and I haven't been
> able to make sense of some of the steps (yet).
>
> Aaron Bartell
> http://mowyourlawn.com