Re: Dedicated Mapics Backup

Barb,

Just how "24/7" do you actually have to be? I ask this because I know of many
3 shift organizations that are nominally 24/7, but actually do a backup each
night during 3rd shift lunch break. For example, if you use COM_Net and MDCC,
both applications stay up for the users, but the transactions simply don't post
until after the XA backups are completed. Ditto with non-XA applications, for
example two of my accounts have add-on, in-house written IM transactions done
through green-screen data collection, but those transactions simply wait until
the backups are done.


Dale (Cork) Gindlesperger, CPIM

"If you think education is expensive, wait until you see what lack of education
costs...."




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From: "BBaase@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <BBaase@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: MAPICS ERP System Discussion <mapics-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tue, September 14, 2010 8:05:45 PM
Subject: Re: [MAPICS-L] Dedicated Mapics Backup

This sounds interesting. I may have to try it. We do have source code for XA.

Sent from my iPhone

On Sep 14, 2010, at 7:01 PM, "Richard Stover" <rstover@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

At a high level you for sure need to get a dedicated environment long enough to
run the true XA backup disk-to-disk then back up the save files to tape later.
As for applications outside XA that do not test for dedicated mode the actaul
back up process does record locking, not file locking. Therefore if you put say
a 5 sec. wait in the calling routine to handle the record lock neither XA or the
other application should care. Worth experimenting with.

Dick Stover
Guide Technologies, LLC

-----Original Message-----
From: Barb Baase <BBaase@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 2:22 PM
To: mapics-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [MAPICS-L] Dedicated Mapics Backup

I am just wondering, in general, how do people get a dedicated Mapics
backup in a 24/7 environment?
Is it a recommended practice to use SQL servers and synchronize data to
them to be used by applications such as shop floor data collection, so
that those applications can use the data from the SQL server while the
iSeries is down? My knowledge of SQL and it's abilities is very limited
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