Comments on: AS400 Backup to Flatfiles

By: tomliotta

tomliotta — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 07:30:37 +0000

Can the backups be written directly to the NFS mount? Yes and no. The standard series of SAV* commands can't do it. But the Save to Application (QaneSava) API can be used to perform saves and it can write its records wherever it chooses. It requires a complementary Restore from Application (QaneRsta) API to do the restore. Tom

By: gilly400

gilly400 — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:32:12 +0000

Hi Graybeard,

I’ve done the same thing with virtual optical and that worked fine, so I’d guess the virtual tape should also work.

Regards,

Martin Gilbert.

By: graybeard52

graybeard52 — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:12:47 +0000

One possibility might be to use a feature of V5R4 call Virtual Tape. It creates a “tape” backup in the IFS (a unix-like file system) on the System i (aka AS400). You may then be able to copy. ftp , whatever. I must say I haven’t tried this, so I don’t know for sure if it would work

By: gilly400

gilly400 — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:28:15 +0000

Hi,

Afraid you can’t backup directly to the NFS (as far as I know). You can use FTP for the copy, but it shouldn’t be necessary. You should be able to use the CPYTOSTMF command to copy to your NFS.

Regards,

Martin Gilbert.

By: mmossman

mmossman — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:24:04 +0000

Can the backups be written directly to the NFS mount? If not, is the copy a simple AS/400 copy command or ftp like I’ve seen in other threads and can this be automated?

By: gilly400

gilly400 — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:29:13 +0000

Hi,

If the AS/400 is already backing up to disk (this is most likely to be using save files), then you will only need to copy the save files to the NFS mount.

Regards,

Martin Gilbert.

By: mmossman

mmossman — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:05:52 +0000

I also have a customer who is interested in nfs backup and I am not that familiar with the AS/400. They would like to run all their AS/400 (i520 w/ v5r4m0) backups onto a nfs mount (likely a RedHat Linux server presenting the filesystem). Two benefits: (1) AS/400 now is backing-up to disk and (2) can now leverage BackupExec and single tape library to write to tape. I believe they are using native BRMS

By: longcut1

longcut1 — Fri, 16 May 2008 14:16:49 +0000

I am working with a client that had asked this question about his environment. I am not sure why they want to look at this type of process verses doing the backup/restore direct.

Thanks so much for the info.

Joe…