RE: Automating backups

Dale,

We NEVER use the MAPICS "save disk-to-tape" option.  On a nightly basis, we use 
the MAPICS autoback process to backup to disk then use the pre- and post-backup 
procedures to initialize the tape and save various libraries to tape, including 
AMSLIB as the last library to backup.  In this process, we are backing up user 
libraries to tape while MAPICS is saving the files to disk.  We do not eject 
the tape as a general rule, primarily to be able to include additional backups 
over the weekends when no one is there to change tapes.  You could easily add 
the option to display the tape, then eject it after the display is complete.  
We have been doing this for several years.  Prior to the MAPICS AUTOBACK 
process, we had our own procedure to accomplish the same thing.  The MAPICS 
process was a lot easier and managed the shutdown of active workstations and 
browser sessions prior to the backup better than we did, so we switched to the 
MAPICS process when it was available.  

David

-----Original Message-----
From: DaleGindlesperger@xxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:DaleGindlesperger@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 10:06 AM
To: mapics-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Automating backups






Hi everyone,

Our Sarbannes-Oxley auditor is requiring that we store a DSPTAP of our
MAPICS backups with each tape.  Currently, we run an unattended MAPICS
backup to disk (for speed) during the 3rd shift lunch break (3am).  Then
during 1st shift, I run the MAPICS "Save disk backup to tape" option.  Then
I have to reload the tape and do a DSPTAP *PRINT to satisfy the SARBOX
people.

Unfortunately, the "Save disk backup to tape" is interactive only, and it
auto-ejects the tape at the end, which precludes me from using Robot to do
that portion (I have to reload the tape to get the DSPTAP printout).

I asked the response line what that option does and was told to either do a
SAVLIB of AMSLIB, or SAVOBJ of the various objects in AMSLIB (AMFBCKM,
AMTBCKM, yadda, yadda), but that doesn't give me the same thing that I get
when I manually run the "Save disk backup to tape".

Has anyone on this thread written their own version of the "Save disk
backup to tape"?

Dale Gindlesperger
IT Manager/Special Projects Leader
Fleetwood Folding Trailers, Inc.
258 Beacon Street
Somerset, PA  15501



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