Mr. Gehale,
First let me say that everyone on the list not only sympathizes but
commiserates with you. We have all lost essential data and know how it
feels. What follows is meant to be a start at helping you never have that
feeling again.

donna gave you excellent advice. The one point I would stress is the
importance of a backup strategy. I would implement it immediately if I were
you.

First of all know what you are backing up currently. Secondly determine what
else you think is important that is not being backed up. I personally think
that until you can determine otherwise everything needs to be backed up.
Once you see that certain files, groups or accounts are more or less static
then you can determine how often you think they should be backed up.

Since you did not say otherwise I am going to assume that you use
TurboStore. If that is the case i would write a backup job that looked
something like this:

!JOB FULLBU, MANAGER.SYS;OUTCLASS=LP,1
!
!FILE T;DEV=TAPE
!STORE /;*T;ONVS=MPEXL_SYSTEM_VOLUME_SET, YOUR_VOLUME_SET1, YOUR_SECOND
_VOLUME_SET;OFFLINE;DIRECTORY;FULLDB
!EOJ

The "/" stores all files in both MPE name space and the HFS (POSIX) files.
The ONVS stores all files in your private volumes, the default is on the
system volume. Directory stores the file directories including their user
defined commands, UDC. The FULLDB clause tells the backup not to backup only
a part of your database. This will help minimize the possibility of data
corruption by restore datasets from different times.

I would also spend sometime looking at the $STDLIST of the backup. See what
is and what is not being backed up. Learn your system. Take your time it is
a long a slow process but be vigilant. I hope this helps.

Work for Peace
The opinions expressed herein are my own and not necessarily those of my
employer.
Yosef Rosenblatt

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