Ross,


There is an onlie backup tool. It is an option of turbostore, help store can
give some details on that, we at our office do not use that so I can not
give details on that.

About you first question:
    We do to following, 4 weekdays we make a incremental backup of
    all accounts,groups,files. And on Thursday we make a full backup
    including a slt store using sysgen tape.

In this case we are 'sure' to have the latest configuration files on tape.
Beside that I made paper copies of the ldev configurations, lpath
configurations, dstat all and the network configurations.


Good luck,


Jan Gerrit Kootstra

P.S. Live would be better, if hardware and software could never fail. The
bad side affect, operators and system adminstrators would be out of a job.
Ross Warner heeft geschreven in bericht <[log in to unmask]>...
>Our 3k is a single application system essentially. I am new to the 3k and
>learning immensely. I will be involved with my first backup this week. I am
>certain that how things are now are that only the application and/or data
is
>being backed up. I would like to know what all needs to be backed up in
>order to perform a complete restoration given there were serious hardware
>problems. I know that they have the tapes for the OS and there is probably
a
>backup of the app since the last update, but what other files would need to
>be in a regular backup in order for me to feel reasonable certain that the
>system could be restored at least to the last back.
>
>A second question is that I have read that there is an "online" backup
>routine available or included with the MPE 5.5 or 5.0 that can backup while
>the app is running. Can someone respond to this also please.
>
>Thank You.
>
>