RE: full system save. Option 21

[Evan Harris <spanner@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dan

Can't speak for Robot or whatever, and I use the same method as you have 
historically used.

A strategy I have seen suggested at various times and one which BRMS 
appears to use (from what I've seen of it)  is to have a console job signed 
on that waits on a data queue. When something is recieved on the data queue 
then something happens. (DUH!)

In this case it runs the system (or other) save and as its signed on at the 
console, it is able to run a SAVSYS. The job that sends the data queue 
entry could be on the scheduler or wherever, giving a tad more flexibility 
than the DLYJOB option.

Hope this helps

Regards
Evan Harris

>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.
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>
>-------------------------- 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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