Re: AS400 Migration Question!

If you use a virtual tape library (inside IBM i with images catalogs) and
ship those tape images over (remember binary) and restore them on the other
box yes that will work. With BRMS remember to restore the OBJECTS into
QUSRBRM and you can then use BRMS to do the restores. See BRMS recovery
reports you run just after the save.


The only problem with that method is space on the system to hold the tape
images.

On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 3:07 PM Sajith P <sajithp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thank you for the FTO, It is not the FTP itself that was the question.
FTP is fine, we have an LPAR running with a restore completed from the
source systems. Unlike the FullSave that does on the tape (or VTL) I
believe the BRMS full backup on a disk is different.

Question is if one has to migrate an existing server without Tape, how
would we do it?

The way we are doing right now is like any Unix server to Test (until we
get a tape in a week or so) .
That is,

1. Brought up a fresh IBMi (not a restore), but a fresh install.
2. Took a backup from customer (Full *ALLUSR IFS and DLO backup.)
3. FTP to the destination Server
4. Restored to the destination Server
5. Destination server is online, we are checking and comparing.

Is this the method you gurus think we should use?




Sajith

On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 3:21 PM <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Um, it's a bit more complicated than that since there's the whole
multimember, access paths, program objects, configuration objects.......

FTP is the hardest and most error prone method to pull this off. The

best

part with this method will be the wonderful learning experiences those

that

try it will have. They won't be positive ones, but learning experiences
nonetheless.....

--
Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects

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Miguel Peralta
Sent: Monday, June 8, 2020 2:01 PM
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Subject: Re: AS400 Migration Question!

use multiple FTPs
over OS/400 comand line mkdir unix
over UNIX FTP:
user
password
cd / <--important
bin <-- or ascii? you need to probe cd unix mput *.* <-or whatever


for the moment I recommend that you need to learn fast PASE IBM® Portable
Application Solutions Environment for i (PASE for i) and have it

installed

Option 33 (5770-SS1 - Portable Application Solutions
Environment) whoever installs the AS400 system asks you to install it,
GOOD LUCK!

On 08/jun./2020 09:10 a. m., Sajith P 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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