RE: Automating backups

["Ann Neal" <aneal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dale,

When you take option 5 Change Backup OPtions and select 1 Backup to tape, on
one of the following screens is the setting for whether to unload, rewind,
or leave the tape.  I wonder if you set this parameter, then went back and
changed the option to Backup to disk, would the MAPICS backup still use that
tape parameter.  If you had it to rewind. Then on the after parameter you
could do the dsptap *print and then unload...

else you can change the defaults for the SAVLIB and/or SAVOBJ command to be
rewind.  Then still use the "after" on the MAPICS screens to do a DSPTAP
*PRINT.

We don't have ROBOT, so I am guessing it uses all the MAPICS settings with
some kind of capture feature?

Ann

-----Original Message-----
DaleGindlesperger@xxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 10:06 AM
To: mapics-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Automating backups

Hi everyone,

Our Sarbannes-Oxley auditor is requiring that we store a DSPTAP of our
MAPICS backups with each tape.  Currently, we run an unattended MAPICS
backup to disk (for speed) during the 3rd shift lunch break (3am).  Then
during 1st shift, I run the MAPICS "Save disk backup to tape" option.  Then
I have to reload the tape and do a DSPTAP *PRINT to satisfy the SARBOX
people.

Unfortunately, the "Save disk backup to tape" is interactive only, and it
auto-ejects the tape at the end, which precludes me from using Robot to do
that portion (I have to reload the tape to get the DSPTAP printout).

I asked the response line what that option does and was told to either do a
SAVLIB of AMSLIB, or SAVOBJ of the various objects in AMSLIB (AMFBCKM,
AMTBCKM, yadda, yadda), but that doesn't give me the same thing that I get
when I manually run the "Save disk backup to tape".

Has anyone on this thread written their own version of the "Save disk
backup to tape"?

Dale Gindlesperger