AS/400 disaster recovery procedures
what are the steps that has to taken place in disaster recovery?

Answer Question   |  November 23, 2011  11:10 AM
AS/400 backup and recovery

backup
what are main uses of backup in as400?

Answer Question   |  November 9, 2011  11:06 AM
AS/400 backup and recovery

As400 Daily Backup Error
Hi, From long time i am facing issue with daily backup using BRMS in multiple lpars.The daily saves are completing with error .I am in search of a permanent solution for this.Our OS level is V6R1. “ Message ID . . . . . . . . : CPF377F       Severity . . . . . [...]

Answer Question   |  June 14, 2012  6:37 AM
AS/400 backup, AS/400 backup and recovery, AS/400 error messages, iSeries V6R1

System Save Error
Did a system save, saved all the files except for 1 in QMGTC, not sure what it is. Also after subsystem qsyswrk started, I got the following: error occurred with the option. what does this mean?

Answer Question   |  March 31, 2012  12:18 PM
AS/400 backup and recovery, iSeries V6R1, QMGTC, QSYSWRK

Expired AS/400 backup tape
If a backup tape is expired, does it still contain data?  If so, how can you restore or recover the data?  Thanks in advance for your help.

Answer Question   |  June 25, 2011  4:22 PM
AS/400 backup, AS/400 backup and recovery, Tape Backups

AS/400 Daily Backup taking more time to complete
SAVCHGOBJ job taking around 3 hours to complete, earlier it was taking only 30 minutes. when i check the job lock i found OBJECT-Q04079N061, LIBRARY-QSPL, OBJECTTYPE-FILE PHY, MEMBERLOCK-YEY, is there anything to check to analyze the problem Please advice for taking the necessary steps Thanks in advance.

Answer Question   |  May 19, 2011  8:32 AM
AS/400, AS/400 backup, AS/400 backup and recovery, AS/400 jobs, Backup, iSeries

Error Msg Clean Tape in AS/400 backup
Our backup is failing due to an error message that states we need to clean TAP01. We used a tape cleaner, also tried a solvent on swabs, tried a brand new tape and still get the error message. Any suggestions?

Answer Question   |  April 20, 2012  7:59 PM
AS/400 backup, AS/400 backup and recovery, Backup, Tape Backups

BRMS Control Group failing to backup
Hi All,   Every day one of my control group is failing.When i look into the logs i found the below error. Couldn’t isolate the problem.Can anybody help me on this to make the CTLG successful. Message . . . . :   Error occurred processing exit command for control        group DAILY8.                                                               Cause . . . . [...]

Answer Question   |  April 7, 2011  12:32 PM
AS/400, AS/400 backup, AS/400 backup and recovery, AS/400 Control Group, Backup, BRMS, BRMS Control Group, iSeries, V6R1

QINTER will not go down due to keyboard error
We shut down QINTER at 3:30 AM to do a quick backup. We have 5.4. When someone leaves a terminal or PC session on with a keyboard error (last night was an “invalid F key pressed”) QINTER will not go down all the way! It sits there until the session is physically terminated at the [...]

Answer Question   |  December 12, 2010  3:13 PM
AS/400, AS/400 backup, AS/400 backup and recovery, Backup, Backup and Recovery, iSeries, QINTER

AS/400 file restore help: Physical file and dependent members deleted
Help!! I had a damaged physical file and deleted it and its dependent logical files. I tried to restore the objects but I get a file mismatch error and it won’t restore. I have the backup of the library but can’t get my objects to restore. I even tried restoring the entire library and everything [...]

Answer Question   |  October 15, 2010  1:09 PM
AS/400 backup, AS/400 backup and recovery, Logical Files, Physical Files, Restore Object

What port(s) on the FireWall needs to be opened for BRMS to backup on a 3494 system?
Have an AS400 on the DMZ. WHat port(s) on the FireWall needs to be opened for BRMS to backup on a 3494 system?

Answer Question   |  October 4, 2010  7:36 PM
AS/400 backup, AS/400 backup and recovery, AS/400 Port Numbers, Backup and recovery software, BRMS, BRMS Backup

How to check when the object or library got deleted from the system.
When we took the backup found the library was not exist in the system, i want to checkwhen the library got deleted from the system. Thanks in advance.

Answer Question   |  September 29, 2010  3:02 PM
AS/400, AS/400 backup, AS/400 backup and recovery, AS/400 Library, AS/400 objects

Restoring Journalized Files
Hi friends, All days at 10:00pm we do the full backup of the library FINANCE. The journal receivers was send to a Windows server. On 15/08 at 21:00 pm we lost all data on the system. The LIBRARY FINANCE was restored with tape from 14/08. What command I use to restore all records from all tables that are in [...]

Answer Question   |  August 18, 2010  10:07 PM
AS/400, AS/400 backup, AS/400 backup and recovery, Backup

Reclaim Storage and clean up before server upgrade
At the moment our AS400 takes 1.5 hrs to IPL, 20hr to do a reclaim storage and about 4 hrs for the full backup. We need to shorten the time it takes for these processes to complete, so first we need to clean-up before we look into upgrading this server.

Answer Question   |  March 17, 2011  2:55 PM
AS/400, AS/400 backup and recovery, Backup, Server upgrades

AS400 stopped printing results after backup
After 2 or 3 sys admins maintained our AS/400, the print jobs stopped printing on the default printer after each nightly backup job. The backups do run and I can run wrkmedbrm to see the tapes created each night. However, how to do get the print outs to come back and what command is used? [...]

Answer Question   |  July 6, 2010  4:46 AM
AS/400 backup and recovery, AS/400 errors, AS/400 printing

AS/400 Disaster Recovery – Restore Date preservation
Is there a way to preserve an object’s Restore Date (as seen when using the DSPOBJD command)?  Ex:  When conducting a Disaster Recovery test, we would prefer to retain the existing Restore Dates of our objects rather than having all objects updated with the Restore Date of our disaster recovery test.

Answer Question   |  February 11, 2010  10:54 PM
AS/400 backup, AS/400 backup and recovery, Disaster Recovery

Backup AS/400 to disk and then to the cloud.
We want to be able to backup our AS/400 to disk and then be able to  put in either on our private cloud or a public cloud like Amazon storage or so. In case of a disaster we have the data available somewhere else in case something happens to the backup tapes . Does anyone [...]

Answer Question   |  February 1, 2010  6:15 PM
AS/400 backup, AS/400 backup and recovery, Backup to the Cloud, Cloud Backup

Restoring Files
Dear All, I want to set up a new test enviornment in our development box. A sub system has already been created. The following needs to be done. 1. Restore all physical files from PRDFLIB TO DEVFLIB 2. Restore all logicals from PRDLLIB to DEVLLIB .  The access path of the logicals(devllib) which i create must [...]

Answer Question   |  December 29, 2009  11:34 PM
AS/400 backup and recovery, AS/400 DB2

Unattended Weekly backups
Can you run automatic unattended Weekly backups and Ipl on the ISeries?

Answer Question   |  December 23, 2009  6:35 PM
AS/400 backup and recovery, Backup & restore, iSeries backup and recovery

Encrypt Data using BRMS
Hi, How do I Encrypt Data using BRMS in iSeries? What are the steps and also let me know if any additional License or Device is required. Till date we have been using BRMS only to Backup Spool Files, but now we are in the Process of Migrating our Daily & Weekly Backups from ordinary [...]

Answer Question   |  December 11, 2009  12:12 PM
AS/400 backup, AS/400 backup and recovery, BRMS, Data Encryption