Re: Space required for SAVSYS

[Don Brown <DBrown@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Evan,

The question was: Can you save to a thumb drive.

If you save to virtual then the save can be copied to anything you want.

If you want to do a bare metal recovery/restore from that then that is 
more difficult.

Apparently I am advised if you have 2 x IBM i LPARS and HMC and a NFS 
Server on the source LPAR you could boot across the IP Network.

This red paper would help:   redp4937-IBM i Network Install.pdf

So is this a good solution for a savsys ... Maybe not 

Cheers :-) 



Don Brown
 



From:   "Evan Harris" <auctionitis@xxxxxxxxx>
To:     "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" 
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Date:   18/09/2019 09:34 AM
Subject:        Re: Space required for SAVSYS
Sent by:        "MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>



Hi Don

How do you actually use the Virtual Tapes "in anger" ? I am asking how you
would specifically use an FTP'ed SAVSYS  - what would you do with the 
image
that would make it usable other than copy it to tape ?


On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 11:24 AM Don Brown <DBrown@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> We use virtual tape regularly for these adhoc requirements, then ftp the
> volumes to wherever we want.
>
> Cheers
>
>
>
> Don Brown
>
>
>
> From:   "B Stone" <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>
> To:     "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion"
> <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   18/09/2019 02:06 AM
> Subject:        Space required for SAVSYS
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>
> My apologies in advance for my ignorance of some of the systems 
operations
> as I so rarely perform them.  :)
>
> If I want to do a SAVSYS at V7R3 (prior to OS upgrade), and save only 
the
> system (not any 3rd party libraries) any idea how much space I need, and
> can this be done to a thumb drive on a power 8 system?
>
> I've looked around and using a save file doesn't appear to be the best
> option for this, and I'm guessing that a DVD may not be big enough.  No
> tape drive on this system either.  I have tested thumb drives and they
> seem
> to work fine.
>
> I also have seen about the PTFs required for thumb drives over 32GB that
> are required.
>
> Or, if I am barking up the wrong tree entirely, feel free to tell me 
that
> as well.
>
> Thanks.
>
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