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Terry, I would love to know how you automate the backup process. I'm new to MAPICS and I have been doing the process manually on the weekends (clean-up) then starting a MAPICS backup to tape. Shawn Thobe Network Administrator Fort Recovery Industries Inc. 419-375-4121 -----Original Message----- From: Greg Novak, Momentum [mailto:gnovak@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 3:53 PM To: 'MAPICS ERP System Discussion' Subject: RE: AS400 Backup, Daily vs. Monthly Terry, If you have any CL programming skills (or know someone who does), you could write a CL program that checks for the day of the month and delays starting the backup if it is the last day. Or you could have shipping actually do their job during normal business hours (sorry, couldn't resist). Regards, -Greg Gregory Novak Manager North American Technical Services Momentum Utilities Pty Ltd (630) 985-1736 gnovak@xxxxxxxxxx www.jacana.com Making Information Work for your Business www.intuator.com -----Original Message----- From: Dave Lauderdale [mailto:DLAUDERDALE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 11:24 AM To: MAPICS ERP System Discussion Subject: RE: AS400 Backup, Daily vs. Monthly 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. _______________________________________________ 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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