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Terry, If you are using a job schedule entry to run these backups, you can designate the scheduled "date" to be *MONTHEND and the scheduled "day" to be *NONE. This will run only on the last day of the month. However, you still need a mechanism to stop the "daily" backup automatically. I will have to think about that part of it. David -----Original Message----- From: Terry LeBlanc [mailto:TLeBlanc@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 11:08 AM To: MAPICS ERP System Discussion Subject: RE: AS400 Backup, Daily vs. Monthly We run MAPICS XA 5.5 on an iSeries Model 720. We normally run MAPICS Backup at 9:00 PM, with some scripts and RPG programs to "prep", takes a little over an hour with the wait times, etc. The MAPICS Backup is directed to a SaveFile on the AS400. We run the standard AS400 backup to tape media daily at 11:00 PM. This process takes approximately 2 1/2 hours, finishing around 1:30 AM. Problem: On the last day of the month we need to skip/delay the MAPICS backup and skip/delay the AS400 backup so that shipping can continue until at least midnight with uninterrupted access to MAPICS. The MAPICS backup is fairly easy, I can just "delete" the backup job from the batch queue for that night, or reschedule for later. It's the AS400 backup that I'm not sure how to handle... Question: Is there a way to define a Monthly backup, instead of the normal Daily backup for that day, for only the last day of a month? It could be any day of the week...it's the LAST DAY that needs to have a "later" backup schedule run...not the normal Daily schedule, the later MONTHLY schedule... I'm not an AS400 guru, but it looks like the normal dialogue in V5R1 requires at least 1 "day" be selected. I don't want to select a "day" of the week...I want the LAST DAY of each month to run later, whatever day of the week that may be. Make sense? Can you assist? I would appreciate email responses to TLeBlanc@xxxxxxxxxxx, if possible, since I don't get by the list as much as I probably should, and month-end is Monday.<g> Thanks! Terry J. LeBlanc Manager Information Systems Nailite International (305) 620-6200 x239 (768) 284-1953 Direct TLeBlanc@xxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ This is the MAPICS ERP System Discussion (MAPICS-L) mailing list To post a message email: MAPICS-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/mapics-l or email: MAPICS-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/mapics-l.
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