Re: Nightly saves

[Al Mac <macwheel99@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Currently I do 2 kinds of backups ... on site during end-fiscal SAVE-21 ... 
and by remote on weekends..  Keeping people off the system is much more 
critical for end-fiscal than for backups ... a failed backup can be rerun 
in a few hours ... a failed end fiscal can take weeks to repair.

Backups are to tape.  Nitely backup is not practical in our current 
political climate, and when the AS/400 got moved, I did not want to 
relocate (previously we had weeknite backups by me being a bully (kicking 
people off who wanted to use the system when I wanted to do a 
backup)).  About 2-3 times a year we need to recover something from a 
backup.  Typically years between real serious incidents.

For end fiscal I end everything from main console, then restart only QCTL 
QBATCH QSPL.

For remote backup, I try to be awake in wee hours when real users unlikely, 
but usually success on no more than 2 tries on a Sunday.  I don't end 
anything except active jobs (people who went home without signing off) and 
system printer (no print audit trail), just run GO BACKUP.

> I need to revisit our backup approach and I'd like to conduct a poll.  Do 
> you do any of the following for your nightly backup?
>
> 1. End QINTER SBS?
> 2. End just active jobs in QINTER?
> 3. Save to disk?
> 4. Perform a GO SAVE 21?
> 5. Perform another GO SAVE option?
> 6. Perform your own SAVLIB CL?
>
> We do 2 and 6.  (Actually, we count on our ERP system [MAPICS] to do 2, 
> but it doesn't always do what we need it to).
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Bryan Burns
> M.I.S. Department
> ECHO, Incorporated