Howdy,

I know it probably has been in the list a couple of times (understatement, I
think...), but (ther's always a but...) I'm gonna ask it anyway. We're
goiung to do a system reload, but have'nt done it EVER. My problem is that a
lot off people have a lot of opinions about what's good/better/best, but
what whould be a good STORE of all files on the sytem and a good
restore/reload procedure to get rid of disk fragmentation? Before the reload
(our client wants us to do it anyway, because they hope for performance
increase instead of bying a new machine) we wanna try "VOLUTIL > CONTIGVOL"
to get rid of a little bit of fragmenation (I now it's no real defrag and we
haven't done this before either ). Should or shouldn't I use buldjob or
other procedures? Has someone maybe put on paper a nice strategy of doing
the store/reload. S'thing like I found in the backissues:

0) Kick everyone off, and shut down networking (so no files will fail to
STORE because they are in use for writing.
 1) As MANAGER.SYS, :RUN BULDACCT;INFO="@"
2)     :FILE T;DEV=TAPE
         :STORE @[log in to unmask]@;*T;DIRECTORY;SHOW
3) VSTORE (or however you like to verify your tapes), on a different tape
drive, if possible.
4) If you have time, make a second backup (I don't trust tapes)
5) Go into SYSGEN, and make a new SLT

When you're ready to reload:
1) Boot from the SLT
2) Use VOLUTIL to add the rest of your disc drives
            :VOLUTIL
            volutil: NEWVOL volumesetname:membername LDEV=nn
3) :RESTORE *T;@[log in to unmask];CREATE;KEEP;OLDDATE;SHOW=OFFLINE
            :FILE T;DEV=TAPE
            :RESTORE *T;@[log in to unmask]@;KEEP;CREATE;OLDDATE;DIRECTORY
4) :STREAM BULDJOB1.PUB.SYS
5) :RESTORE *T;/;CREATE;KEEP;OLDDATE;SHOW=OFFLINE

What bothers me, is to actually make a reload, you have to purge EVERYTHING
from the system (maybe only not @.pub.sys or so, cause you probably won't
win that much defrag and still have the operating working system?!?).

Please try to spare a couple of moments of your valueble time to help me
(and probably others), cause I'm now at the point of calling HP for help,
for s'thing which should be a simple (but timeconsuming) system task.

Th@nx in advance,

bArtoque