RE: Automating backups

Dale,

We use the MAPICS Backup to save to disk but have written our own CL to save
to tape.

Once our custom libraries and the MAPICS backup to disk completes, we run
our CL program to save our savefiles to tape.  In order to restore an object
from a savefile from tape, we found that you have to restore the whole
savefile unless you use the SAVSAVFDTA command and this will allow you to
restore the object from tape.  This may give you what you need.

Keith Loyd
Dir of IS
Unaka Company, Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From: DaleGindlesperger@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:DaleGindlesperger@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 11:06 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
IT Manager/Special Projects Leader
Fleetwood Folding Trailers, Inc.
258 Beacon Street
Somerset, PA  15501



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