Re: Backing up and not taking TCP/IP down

[Pete Hall <peteh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 16:06 07/28/98 -0500, Gary Lehman wrote:
>Got a question for the system/TCP/IP gurus.  Is there a way to keep TCP/IP
>up and running when backing up an AS/400?  When we backup our AS/400 the
>subsystem that has TCP/IP running on it is taken down.  How do we get around
>this?

Gary,

We were getting object lock exceptions when saving *IBM libraries, so we ended 
up only saving them once a week and ending TCP/IP and the servers completely 
only for that. On a daily basis, we only save user libraries. There seems to be 
no problem with this, as long as we end the servers that allow user access 
until the synchronized save-active checkpoint is reached. This allows devices 
with auto-reconnect enabled (some shop floor workstations) to more or less 
transparently come back up by themselves except on Monday morning when a reboot 
is required.

Pete


Pete Hall
peteh@inwave.com 
http://www.inwave.com/~peteh/

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