RE: To Mapics backup or not to Mapics backup?

["Shrader, Patrick" <pshrader@xxxxxxxx>]

I, too, like the idea of a scheduled system backup for my data. However, the
MAPICS backup does more than simply back up the information to tape. There
are some cleanup jobs that is included in the MAPICS backup. If I could
determine all of these jobs and run them from my own routines, I would have
the backup scheduled automatically, greatly reducing the daily operational
headaches of setting up the backup.

If anyone knows of a resource to show the API calls that MAPICS handles, I'd
greatly appreciate the information.

Patrick


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rebecca Snyder [SMTP:rsnyder@atlasdie.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 10:04 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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