If your situation requires a medium save strategy or a complex save strategy, it requires regular review.
The regular review is as follows:
- Are you saving everything occasionally?
- What do you need to do to recover to the known point (4) on the Backup and recovery timeline?
- Are you using options like journaling or saving changed objects to help you recover to the failure point (5)? Do you know how to recover using those options?
- Have you added new applications? Are the new libraries, folders, and directories being saved?
- Are you saving the IBM-supplied libraries that contain user data (for
example QGPL and QUSRSYS)? Note: The Special values for the SAVLIB command topic lists all of the IBM-supplied libraries that contain user data.
- Have you tested your recovery?
The best way to test your strategy for saving is to test a recovery. Although you can test a recovery on your own system, doing so can be risky. If you have not saved everything successfully, you might lose information when you attempt to restore.
A number of organizations offer recovery testing as a service. IBM® Continuity
and Recovery Services
is one organization that can assist
you with recovery testing.