Re: Saving the IFS

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I would just create a share for Root through Netserver and then map a 
drive to that Window's share and start copying. I would think XCOPY should 
do the trick as mentioned and it won't get QSYS.LIB or QDLS because the 
share doesn't include those. 
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But that would also copy /QSYS.LIB, which you probably don't want to do. 
So
you would want XCOPY to use the /EXCLUDE parameter, so you could exclude
/QSYS.LIB and /QDLS and /QNTC and maybe others. And I don't know what 
XCOPY
would do with a file being used - I'm sure it doesn't have a Save While
Active feature.

On 10/26/06, Don Cavaiani <dcavaiani@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
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>
> 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-----
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>
> 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
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