Re: AS400 Migration Question!

here is the backup and recovery guide:
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_ibm_i_73/rzai8/sc415345.pdf


having a tape drive does make the process a lot easier. On the source
system, type GO SAVE and run option 21. Then on the target, GO RESTORE and
option 21.

without the tape drive you are running what option 21 does for you
individually, with the save files as the media.

you have to get the user profiles and system values first. then user
libraries. and all the IFS folders.

But you also need the licensed programs and PTFs to match. And the IFS
folders used by applications will be mixed with the IFS folders used by
open source applications. It can get to be a real mess.


On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 12:27 PM Sajith P <sajithp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thank you!

We have done FTP and restore from a remote site, after we installed a
Fresh
IBMi (not from a backup, but from IBM downloaded image). We were able to
restore the user library through FTP, We do have HMC's (there will be two,
at present only one in place).

On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 12:10 PM Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I think the first step is to restore all user profiles on the target
system. That way when you restore data libraries all the authorities

will

be intact.

you can start by saving all the user profiles on the source system to a
save file.

SAVSECDTA DEV(*SAVF) SAVF(QGPL/SECDTA)

use FTP to send the SAVF to the target system.

then use the RSTUSRPRF on the target system to restore those user

profiles.

RSTUSRPRF DEV(*SAVF) USRPRF(*ALL) SAVF(QGPL/SECDTA)

That would at least get you familiar with using FTP to get the save

file on

the target. And then restoring on that system.


On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 10:12 AM Sajith P <sajithp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Team, I am a non-AS400 Team Lead and my experience is in UNIX side. I

have

a migration coming up where a customer is shipping IBM hardware (914)

to

our datacenter and a tape drive (TS3100).

I have a S824 with some IBMi core license, but no tape drive.
I got the AS400 Team to install a fresh IBMi (7.x) on an LPAR.

Is there any way I can migrate things without tape? My IBMi engineers

are

uncomfortable, at the same time on the UNIX side, we never do a bare

metal

installation like Full system save and restore.

I am very uncomfortable doing this over the weekend without a backout

plan,

since once the hardware is shipped I am in the hook.

Tape drive is the only option?

Thank you for your quick response.

Sajith P
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