Re: To Mapics backup or not to Mapics backup?

Forwarded on behalf of Tony Forrest

Dave Shaw
MAPICS-L Moderator
Spartan International, Inc.
Spartanburg, SC

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-mapics-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-mapics-l@midrange.com] 
Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2000 8:40 PM
To: owner-mapics-l@midrange.com
Subject: BOUNCE mapics-l@midrange.com: Non-member submission from ["Tony
& Wendy Forrest" <tforrest@wforrest.net>] 

We are currently working on a solution to provide 24 x 7 in our shop.  In
will consist of using a replication machine and high availability software.
We will then back up the second machine and only take down our production
machine for ptf's or upgrades.


----- Original Message -----
From: <gcrane@johansonmfg.com>
To: <MAPICS-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2000 9:32 AM
Subject: Re: To Mapics backup or not to Mapics backup?


>
>
> Rebecca wrote:
> "And how can you run a 24x7 shop (which will have to do when we
> get the other company running on Mapics) when you need to end
> QINTER to do a Mapics Backup (or the SAVLIB that we're
> currently doing for that matter?)"
>
> I run MAPICS Unattended save to disk nightly and do not end QINTER.
Mapics goes
> into dedicated mode but users can continue to use the system for
Non-MAPICS
> applications.
> Ending QINTER stops most users from even signing on.  All our 'homegrown'
> applications that
> use MAPICS files checks to see if MAPICS is in dedicated mode before
executing.
>
> We are a 24x6 shop and much of what the users do today is not just MAPICS.
>
> We also have a job on the AS400 jobscheduler that will execute a
transaction
> register to finish
> IM batches.
>
> Gail Crane
> Johanson Manufacturing Corp.
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