Yes, that would work, however, the image catalog object is not compressed.
To save FTP time, after you save the objects to the Virtual Tape, save
the virtual tape file to a standard *SAVF with compression Medium. We
have found Medium is the best bang for the time spent compressing and we
have seen as good as 70% compression rates.
Example - if you have a virtual catalog as created below:
|CRTIMGCLG IMGCLG(MYCATALOG) DIR('/MYCATALOGDIRECTORY') CRTDIR(*YES)
ADDVRTVOL(1) PREFIX(ABC) IMGSIZ(100000) TEXT(catalog-description) TYPE(*TAP)|
CRTSAVF QGPL/MYCATALOG TEXT('MY COMPRESSED SAVE')
SAV DEV('/QSYS.LIB/QGPL.LIB/MYCATALOG.FILE')
OBJ('/MYCATALOGDIRECTORY/ABC01') DTACPR(*MEDIUM)
(FTP QGPL/MYCATALOG to the new system)
(Un-compress)
RST ('QSYS.LIB/QGPL.LIB/MYCATALOG.FILE) OBJ('/MYCATALOGDIRECTORY/ABC01')
Gavin.
On 6/16/2023 1:35 PM, Wim Jongman via MIDRANGE-L wrote:
Hi,
Two weeks ago, we did a complete system save and restore on our new cloud partition. The thing is configure and now I want to get the changed objects there.
Since I have no tape device there, I was thinking of creating a virtual tape as described here
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.3?topic=media-virtual-tape
Then do a savchgobj *allusr to that tape, get the image catalog to the other machine, and restore the objects.
Is this the correct workflow?
Cheers, Wim
midrange.com
