RE: To Mapics backup or not to Mapics backup?

["Huber, Mike" <MHuber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

One method is to have a real fast tape drive. The other involves doing the
backup to disk, and then copying the backup to tape at a more convenient
time. Since the disk is much faster than a tape drive it dramatically
reduces the amount of time the process takes.

Also on a side note, you will probably want to determine a schedule for
purging of the data files, this will aid in the time back up takes also.

Hope that helps a bit.


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Michael Huber
Applications Development and AS/400 Operations
Microsoft Certified Professional
US Filter - Plymouth Products, Inc.
Phone :  (920) 451-9417 Fax :  (847) 291-7204    Pager :  (920) 576-2266

mailto:mhuber@plymouthwater.com
http://www.plymouthwater.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Rebecca Snyder [mailto:rsnyder@atlasdie.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 9:04 AM
To: MAPICS-L@midrange.com
Subject: To Mapics backup or not to Mapics backup?


Hello Everyone,

We're realitvely new to Mapics, and have had heard conflicting
information on whether or not to use the Mapics backup...

The affliate that was doing the implementaion for one of our
companies told us not to use the Mapics backup and even
went so far as to set up a SAVLIB scheduled job to save the Mapics
libraries. Previous to that we were just using the AS/400 Backup
which they told us wouldn't work for Mapics.

After attending a Mapics class. last week I found out that
we should be doing a Mapics backup, because the stuff
from doing a SAVLIB was useless.

So how are people doing a nightly backup of the Mapics data?

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?)

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