Testing your strategy

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, it is very risky. If you do not save everything successfully, you might lose information when you attempt to restore.

A number of organizations offer recovery testing as a service. Business continuity and resiliency Link outside information center is one organization that helps you with the recovery testing.