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  • Subject: RE: full system save. Option 21
  • From: D.BALE@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 15:55:00 -0400

Does anyone know if the 3rd party backup products do anything more than stick
a DLYJOB RSMTIME(&TIME) before it does the SAVE 21 stuff?  I did this years
ago where the system console was in a locked room for which only the MIS
manager & myself had a key.  Every afternoon I'd load the next day's backup
tape in the tape drive, call up a special menu on the system console, take the
option.  The first thing it did was to INZTAP the tape, this was also a sanity
check that the drive was "ready".  I walked out of the computer room and
locked the door.  Then it hit a DLYJOB RSMTIME(020000) before ENDSBS *ALL and
running all of the SAVe commands.

Not knowing any better to do otherwise, my method requires restricted access
to the system console.  Do the 3rd party backup products do it any better than
that?

Dan Bale
IT - AS/400
Handleman Company
248-362-4400  Ext. 4952
D.Bale@Handleman.com
  Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur.
  (Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.)

-------------------------- Original Message --------------------------
> I would like to be able to schedule a job to run a full
> system backup.  Is this possible?

Not really, as the full system save runs in restricted state.

Some 3rd party backup products (Robot/Save is the one that comes to mind)
provides support to schedule a full system save.  I think you have to run a
backup agent on your console and it checks the time and takes the system
into restricted state prior to trying to run a full system save.

david
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