Medium save strategy

 

You have a medium save window, which means that you have a 4-hour to 6-hour block of time available daily with no system activity. Use this strategy if you find that you do not have a long-enough save window to use a simple save strategy.

If you run large batch jobs on your system at nights or you have very large files that take a long time to save. You might need to develop a medium save strategy, which means that the complexity for saving and for recovery is medium.

When developing a medium save strategy, apply this principle: the more often it changes, the more often you should save it. You just need to be more detailed in evaluating how often things change than when you use a simple strategy.

The following techniques are available to use in a medium save strategy. You can use one of them or a combination:

• Saving changed objects.

• Journaling objects and saving the journal receivers.

• Saving changed objects
  You can use several commands to save only information that has changed since the last save operation or since a particular date and time.

• Journaling objects and saving journal receivers
  If your save operations for integrated file system objects and data areas are taking too long, you can choose to journal the objects to make your save operations more efficient.

 

Parent topic:

Finding your save window