AS/400 Backup Questions and Answers

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Restoring spool files from a system save on V5R4 System i

How can I restore spool files from V5R4 entire system save?

View Answer   |  Dec 10 2008  9:27 PM GMT
System i, V5R4, AS/400 backup
asked by AS400 - Ask the Expert

  395 pts.

Backup commands for AS/400

I have a few questions... What commands do I use to see how big the backup is? I want to backup AS400 to a NAS Server at another location. So we have a off site copy. Is that possible? if so, how do I do it? I'm also open to opinions...

View Answer   |  Dec 10 2008  9:25 PM GMT
NAS devices, Remote backups, AS/400 backup
asked by AS400 - Ask the Expert

  395 pts.

Entire System Backup

Before i was using small tape for Entire System Back up(Fmt5gb)but now i am using big tape (Qic 4gb) it take too long time to finish the back up how can i reduce the time

View Answer   |  Dec 6 2008  5:12 AM GMT
Backup to Tape, AS/400 backup, Backup
asked by 40532

  5 pts.

AS/400 CL Auto Reply to "Load Next Tape messages"

Would like to auto reply to this message without amending the system reply list entries, rather just from within the Backup CLP itself.

View Answer   |  Nov 24 2008  5:05 AM GMT
CLP, CL, AS/400 backup
asked by Techman96

  5 pts.

Can I backup to disk with BRMS?

Can I backup to disk with BRMS?

View Answer   |  Nov 20 2008  10:07 PM GMT
AS/400 backup, Backup, BRMS
asked by Webdevyahoocom

  5 pts.

I need to create a job to delete PFs based on create date or a variable w/in the name

There are several files (they are claim files) created on a daily basis; they have MMDD appended to the name, e.g. ECPAU1118, ECPAH1118. They would like to keep these files out there for a year! but want a 'month-end' job that will delete all files from the previous year for the upcoming month. ...

View Answer   |  Nov 18 2008  2:57 PM GMT
AS/400 backup
asked by Mars808

  15 pts.

Save/Restore Spooled files using BRMS

How can i saved/restored spooled files on Tape using BRMS. Thank you inadvance

View Answer   |  Nov 13 2008  2:49 AM GMT
Tape Backups, Spool files, AS/400 backup
asked by C007

  50 pts.

Objects Transfer between AS/400 Environments

Hi, I have two environments created in AS/400 system. One is Dveleopment and the other is Production.Both has unqiue IP address. There is a job that runs in Production Env. that extracts the objects from Development Env. and updates in its environment. While running this job, is it required to...

asked by Sris1986

  55 pts.

Replace all drives in 520

Hello. I will need to replace all 6 drives on a 520 with 6 larger drives. There is no expansion tower, so every slot is full. What is the easiest, quickest way to accomplish this? Thanks!

View Answer   |  Oct 29 2008  6:58 PM GMT
AS/400 backup, AS/400 upgrading, i5 520
asked by Chrisinfl

  15 pts.

Controlling Subsystem Name

On an All User Data save procedure after all subsystems have been ended and the save is complete, what is the name of the controlling subsystem that needs to start. STRSBS SBSD(controlling-subsystem) Would it be QCTL or QINTER.

View Answer   |  Sep 30 2008  4:59 PM GMT
AS/400 backup, QINTER, QCTL
asked by Rjrohwer

  25 pts.

Omit on a SAV command

I am having to tweak my All User Data save job to omit certain files from the save. I'm unsure of the proper naming convention for the save. The call currently looks like this.SAV DEV(tap03) OBJ(('/*') ('/QSYS.LIB' *OMIT) + ('/QDLS' *OMIT) ('/QIBM/ProdData' *OMIT) + ...

View Answer   |  Sep 30 2008  4:56 PM GMT
AS/400, AS/400 backup, SAV commands
asked by Rjrohwer

  25 pts.

reassign the drives automatically withoput the use of the console

We have a 525 with 2 tape drives. Our prod backups occur at 1:00 am to savfs and then at 5:00 am the savfs are put to tape Our dev backups occur at 12:00 am to savfs and then when we come in we use the HMC to manually reassign the drives to the 2 dev partitions and the we sav the savfs to tape. ...

View Answer   |  Sep 30 2008  4:32 PM GMT
Tape Backups, Tape drives, Partitions
asked by JAC

  260 pts.

Can we recover deleted spool file?

hi all, please tell me is it possible to recover any deleted spool file. if yes then how..................??? thanks

View Answer   |  Sep 26 2008  7:40 AM GMT
Spool files, RPGILE, AS/400 backup
asked by Ambrish 82

  275 pts.

How do I NOT save a file

Once a month we run an Entire System Save. For reasons that are hard to explain I would like to Not save several files when we do a System Save. IBM has given me a couple of options. One being to FTP the file to a server, delete it, run the save then FTP file back to the library. The second...

View Answer   |  Sep 15 2008  9:08 PM GMT
AS/400 backup, SAVSYS
asked by Rjrohwer

  25 pts.

Virtual Tape CL Program

Does anyone have an example cl using virtual tape for backup. I have tested with this but am looking for a way to incorporate into a custom cl backup procedure.

View Answer   |  Sep 9 2008  2:38 PM GMT
Tape Backups, CL, AS/400 backup
asked by Bmangan

  260 pts.

What tapes were used IBM TS3100 AS/400 Backup

How can I find out what tape was used in a previous backup? TS3100 2-12 mags

View Answer   |  Sep 4 2008  4:33 PM GMT
Tape Backups, AS/400 backup, Backup
asked by Johnwhitew

  20 pts.

SAVSAVFDTA size of 2,147,483,647

We do savf of our libraries nitely and then we do a savsavfdta to tape in the morning. The log created of the savfs going to tape shows a few libraries showing the same size number of 2,147,483,647. Can someone please explain why? Are there limitations for savfs? PLEASE HELP! Thanks, JAC

View Answer   |  Sep 2 2008  2:12 PM GMT
Tape Backups, AS/400 backup, SAVF
asked by JAC

  260 pts.

AS400 Backup error

I ran a full system backup and the program errored off with the following message "Function check cpf2408 unmonitored by fullsys at satement 2500" What is causing this error?

View Answer   |  Aug 27 2008  2:48 PM GMT
AS/400 errors, AS/400 backup
asked by Newop

  5 pts.

How full is my backup tape?

Is there a way on the AS/400 (ours is at V4R3 so I still call it that), to tell the percent used of a backup tape?

View Answer   |  Aug 27 2008  2:02 PM GMT
Tape Backups, System i, AS/400 backup
asked by Sholmbe

  40 pts.

DVD Backup

I am working on an iseries 520 v5r4m0. Our tape backup is not reliable. So I would like to backup to CD or DVD. Could you tell me what hardware I need to do this? And could it be used with the current IBM backup software.

View Answer   |  Jul 31 2008  2:22 PM GMT
iSeries, V5R4, AS/400 backup
asked by Bashawin

  15 pts.

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