Re: Backup - more questions and thanks

["Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@xxxxxxx>]

At 11:22 AM 4/16/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Thanks to all those who replied to my questions about backups. I have been 
>reading the Backup and Recovery Guide and have a few more questions:
>
>When using the Save screen, #21, will I get a report listing what has been 
>saved on each tape as I go along?  I'm wondering how I would know what tape 
>to use when restoring a file.  Will this execute the SAVSYS, SAVDLO, AND 
>SAVLIB?        

Save option 21 runs a program in QSYS called QMNSAVE.  You can retrieve the
source and modify it if you which.  Caution  IBM could wipe out your
changes with a PTF, but this (any many) other CL programs are retrievable
by design,

>
>When I run the MAPICS system Backup Master Files procedure, what exactly is 
>being backed up?  There is no report or job listing produced when I run it. 
> Is there an option I can set somewhere that will cause these procedures to 
>produce a listing?
>
>And, finally, if I do the Save, #21, and then carry on doing the Mapics 
>Backup Master Files, does this mean that I could restore by doing a 
>Restore, #21, then restore Master files and have a complete recovery?  I am 
>not doing any development work at all, we are simply running the production 
>Mapics system.

Probably yes.  My suggestion is to dump the MAPICS save/restore procedures,
and  use SAVCHGOBJ *ALLUSR as your backup strategy.  The is a command
called SAVALLCHG with a corresponding RSTALLCHG command in TAA Tools.
>
>thanks again,
>
>Stephanie
>
>Stephanie Coulshaw
>IT Coordinator
>Aimtronics Corporation
>Kanata, Ontario, Canada
>
>
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