Backing up the IFS - what actually gets backed up?

["Peter Dow" <pcdow@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Everyone,

Over the past 20 years I have rarely if ever been involved in defining a
backup strategy; obviously prior to that 20 year limit there was no IFS.  I
was just reading an article about backing up the IFS and found that it makes
little or no mention of QNTC or similar directories. The only mention of
QNTC was to Netfinity servers.

My question is, what about other servers that are accessible via the IFS?
Does the command

SAV DEV('/QSYS.LIB/media-device-name.DEVD') |
 | |       |                |       OBJ(('/*') ('/QSYS.LIB' *OMIT) +
|
 | |       |                |           ('/QDLS' *OMIT)(1) +
|
 | |       |                |           ('/QIBM/ProdData' *OMIT) +
|
 | |       |                |           ('/QOpenSys/QIBM/ProdData' *OMIT))
+|
 | |       |                |       UPDHST(*YES)

which is run by option 23 of the SAVE menu, backup any attached NT servers?
What about servers connected via QFileSvr.400?  The Backup/Recovery Guide is
less than forthcoming about this.

I would guess that they're automagically omitted instead of having to be
explicitly omitted as /QDLS is in the above command, but I don't know and I
don't see any documentation that says so.

When I tried to backup an object from a QNTC NT server, I got an error
stating that QSECOFR was not authorized to the NT server. Presumably if she
had been, it would've worked. How about with QFileSvr.400?

tia,
Peter Dow
Dow Software Services, Inc.
909 425-0194 voice
909 425-0196 fax



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