On our weekly fullsys we have *LINK. We used QALLUSRLNK for a while on the daily backups, but have since cut it down to directories that see significant change on a day to day basis. If it is a full save then I would go for *LINK. If you save system and user data separately, then maybe add QIBMLINK to the system save and use QALLUSRLNK for the user data.
On Thu, 2021-05-20 at 19:32 +0000, Steinmetz, Paul via MIDRANGE-L wrote:
Reviewing BRMS save strategy.
Years back, IBM suggested using QALLUSRLNK vs *LINK.
QALLUSRLNK saves /*, but omits the system IFS data directories.
These omits include
/QIBM/ProdData
/QOpenSys/QIBM/ProdData
At the time, this made sense and shortened the save a bit.
But from a recovery standpoint, probably not good, as these directories would be missed.
I'm thinking of switching back to *LINK.
What are others in the group using?
Any thoughts from the group?
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