Re: Qezbkmsg | os/400 backup program

Okay. Here goes....

GO BACKUP.

Option 10 allows you to set up the backups. Set tape volume names to be
rotated and set up daily, weekly and monthly backup options. You can change
the schedule from here also.

CALL PGM(QEZBKMSG) parm(1)

This call sends a message to the system operator to mount the appropriate
tape. Parm controls type. 1 is daily, 2 is weekly and 3 is monthly. This
program can be called repeatedly. When the backup executes, then the value
for the tape volume name changes.

The lists of libraries and folders to be backed up are contained in QUSRSYS
in user indexes, QEZBACKUPF and QEZBACKUPL.

Offhand, I can't remember where the other information is stored.

Another concern that I would have is the completeness of the backup as
implemented by these procedures. This is the old OA backup and may or may
not backup the directories. If you are on CISC and at Version 2, then you
have no fear for the backup, but you have bigger problems with the Y2K
issues.

I only had one customer that ever used this function and ALL of my other
customers use a custom, but simple set of CL programs to manage their
backups, even fully automated and using Media Libraries, so my experience is
sketchy.

My experience indicates that very few people even know about these programs,
let alone know where the documentation is.

Good luck.


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R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr.
 -- IBM Certified AS/400 Professional System Administrator
 -- IBM Certified AS/400 Professional Network Administrator

"The sum of all human knowledge is a fixed constant.
    It's the population that keeps growing!"

-----Original Message-----
From: John Hall <jhall@hillmgt.com>
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Date: Sunday, December 26, 1999 4:07 PM
Subject: Re: Qezbkmsg | os/400 backup program


>If you have a system monitoring program like messenger plus you can just
>monitor for the message to load tape and call a program with the message
>text.  The program can easily place the tape name into a data structure.
>
>John Hall
>Home Sales Co.
>
>
>Chris Beck wrote:
>>
>> I am looking for any info anyone has on this program. it is used to send
a message to qsysopr telling the operator what tape to load for the backup
schedule.   I want to take the name of the tape to be loaded and place it in
a data structure.
>>
>> Or if any one can tell me how to get what tape is to be loaded some other
way it would be much appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks Chris Beck
>>
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