Section 9. Restoring the entire system

To get your system back to the way it was before the disaster, use the procedures in Checklist 20: Recovering your entire system after a complete system loss.

Before you begin: Find the following save media, equipment, and information from the on-site tape vault or the offsite storage location:

• If you install from the alternate installation device, you need both your save media and the CD-ROM media containing the Licensed Internal Code.
• All save media from the most recent complete save operation
• The most recent save media from saving security data (SAVSECDTA or SAVSYS)
• The most recent save media from saving your configuration, if necessary
• All save media that contains journals and journal receivers that you saved since the most recent daily save operation
• All save media from the most recent daily save operation
• PTF list (stored with the most recent complete save media, weekly save media, or both)
• Save media list from most recent complete save operation
• Save media list from most recent weekly save operation
• Save media list from daily saves
• History log from the most recent complete save operation
• History log from the most recent weekly save operation
• History log from the daily save operations
• The Installing, upgrading, or deleting IBM i and related software PDF.
• The Recovering your system PDF.
• Telephone directory
• Modem manual
• Tool kit