RE: Saving the IFS

What directory was it processing when it failed? Was it
'/QOpenSys/QOpenSys/QOpenSys ....' ? There are recursive links in the IFS
that windows applications don't handle very well ...

Mike Grant
Bytware, Inc.
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Don Cavaiani
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 5:19 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Saving the IFS


This was rolling along nicely until I received the 
"insufficient memory"
error - caused by the excessive length of the directory 
structure for a
given file's location.  Is there a way around this other than 
to exclude
that particular directory?


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Create a share for the IFS root directory.  Then create this 
batch file:


NET USE Z: \\iseries\root password /USER:userid ECHO QSYS.LIB >
%TEMP%\OMITLIST XCOPY Z:*.* C:\ISERIESBACKUP /H/I/C/K/E/R/Y/D
/EXCLUDE:%TEMP%\OMITLIST DEL %TEMP%\OMITLIST

Where "iseries" is the domain name or IP address of your iSeries,
"userid" is user profile on the iSeries with sufficient authority to
read the IFS, and "password" is the password for userid.

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This is pretty much the procedure I am trying now and which appears to
be working fine!

All of the suggestions sounded logical, and I appreciate the input of
each expert who responded.

Thanks! 

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jones, John (US)
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 7:47 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Saving the IFS

Create a share for the IFS root directory.  Then create this 
batch file:


NET USE Z: \\iseries\root password /USER:userid ECHO QSYS.LIB >
%TEMP%\OMITLIST XCOPY Z:*.* C:\ISERIESBACKUP /H/I/C/K/E/R/Y/D
/EXCLUDE:%TEMP%\OMITLIST DEL %TEMP%\OMITLIST

Where "iseries" is the domain name or IP address of your iSeries,
"userid" is user profile on the iSeries with sufficient authority to
read the IFS, and "password" is the password for userid.

If you want to exclude other directories in addition to QSYS.LIB, add
additional ECHO commands _after_ the first one as follows:
ECHO dirname >> %TEMP%\OMITLIST
The >> is intentional and means append to the file.

I have not tested the above in total, however the NET USE works and I
use XCOPY with the listed parms sans the /EXCLUDE all the time.

That said, this may not capture everything so be sure to watch for
messages.

Also, this does an incremental backup - anything on the source that is
newer or newly exists is copied to the target.  That way you're not
copying the entire IFS dir structure every time; just the 
changes.  The
first time you run it the batch will copy everything, after that it
should be much quicker.

John A. Jones, CISSP
Americas Information Security Officer
Jones Lang LaSalle, Inc.
V: +1-630-455-2787 F: +1-312-601-1782
john.jones@xxxxxxxxxx

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Don Cavaiani
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 7:20 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Saving the IFS

Lukas,

I guess I am thinking that this would be done from the Windows side -
with just a xcopy command which would access (by drive 
letter) and copy
all of the IFS '\'.  Just not sure what the exact 
format/procedure would
be. Wondering if anyone has already tried that?

Thanks,
Don

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lukas Beeler
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 6:02 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Saving the IFS

Hi Don,

Your question isn't as easy to answer as it might seem.

There's the SAV command, which can be used to save IFS 
objects to a save
file. I'm not sure if you can create save files on the QNTC 
filesystem,
which would allow you to access a remote windows pc (without 
any special
software installed, the SMB Server is standard with every windows
install). Using SAV would probably be the most complete way 
to generate
a backup off your files.

There are other options, like creating tar or zip archives 
using the tar
or jar command respectively in the Q-Shell environment 
(started with the
command STRQSH). You could save these directly to the QNTC filesystem,
but you would lose authorities etc. on your files if you choose this
route.

What do you want to achieve? I would recommend doing a Save 
21 at least
weekly, which includes a save of the IFS (to tape).

Hope this helps,

Lukas

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Don Cavaiani
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 12:51 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Saving the IFS

Is there a single command which will copy the entire IFS onto 
a PC hard
drive (as a backup)?  Would I need Client Access installed on the PC?

Don F. Cavaiani
IT Manager
Amerequip Corp.
920-894-7063
 
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