Re: To Mapics backup or not to Mapics backup?

[Robert Vass <robert.vass@xxxxxxxxx>]

    If you don't run a MAPICS backup your, journal files will fill to their
maximum size and error messages will start appearing at your users console as
they attempt their daily transactions.

    Every machine requires some form of maintenance, make time to do this, use
fast equipment to reduce your non production time.


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"Huber, Mike" wrote:

> 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
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> http://www.plymouthwater.com
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> -----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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