Re: backup situation

["John Taylor" <john.taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michele,

In response to your question about overwriting a previous backup, you need
to investigate the ENDOPT parameter for the respective SAVxxx command that
you are using. By specifying ENDOPT(*LEAVE) on your first backup, and
ENDOPT(*REWIND) on your last backup, you will avoid overwriting the first
backup on the tape.

Another solution to your problem that you may want to look into is the "Save
While Active" feature. You can specify this as a parameter option on the SAV
command that backs-up your IFS directories. The parameter name is SAVACT.

HTH,

John Taylor
Canada

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michele Reinkemeyer" <mreinkemeyer@mbsbooks.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Monday, December 13, 1999 12:01
Subject: backup situation


> Here is the problem:
>
> We have customers doing a backup nightly, but since it backups up one file
in
> particular (their web file) no one can access their web site during this
time.
>
> Possible solution?:
>
> To run a backup, excluding that file each night and then run a job
scheduled
> entry to backup just that file since it doesn't seem possible to run 2
scheduled
> backups each night.
>
> Questions:
>
> How would you ensure that the job scheduled entry save didn't save OVER
your
> nightly backup?  Is there a parameter that can be set that will force the
job
> scheduled entry to search the tape, go to the end of the backup and then
start
> saving that file to tape?  Is there a better way of going about this?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Michele R
>
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