Now a days, BRMS (Backup Recovery Media Services) is more widely used and recommended software that is being used for backup management. However, I am going to first describe the Native Backup management system that AS400 OS provides and how this can be configured and managed to take up backup successfully for Daily, Weekly, Monthly etc. Lets now describe the feature and how to setup backup using this,
The AS/400 backup program is native to the
AS/400 operating system. It can be
accessed from a command line by typing go backup. Follow the procedures below to implement a
backup job.
Daily Backup
·
Option 10 to Set a backup
·
Option 1 to Change daily
backup options
·
TAP01 for
Backup device
·
*ANY
for Tape sets to rotate
·
Y to Erase
tape before backup
·
1 (selected
from list) for User libraries
·
3 (none)
for Folders
·
3 (none)
for User directories
·
N for Security
data
·
N for Configuration
·
N for Save
changed objects only
·
Y for Submit
backup as batch job
·
Y for Print
detailed report
Press enter will schedule the job on the
job scheduler.
Weekly Backup
·
Option 10 to Set a backup
·
Option 2 to Change weekly
backup options
·
TAP01 for
Backup device
·
*ANY
for Tape sets to rotate
·
Y to Erase
tape before backup
·
1 (selected
from list) for User libraries
·
3 (none)
for Folders
·
3 (none)
for User directories
·
Y for Security
data
·
Y for Configuration
·
N for Save
changed objects only
·
Y for Submit
backup as batch job
·
Y for Print
detailed report
Press enter will schedule the job on the
job scheduler.
Monthly Backup
These options are not used.
Quarterly Backup
·
Enter go save from a command
line
·
Option 21 for Entire
system
·
Use defaults except for N for
Active files and *NOTIFY for Message queue delivery
·
Use defaults to end subsystems
·
Use defaults for save system, save library, save document
library, and save object
Backup Libraries
·
Option 10 to Set a backup
·
Option 10 to Change
library backup list
·
Option 2 to select libraries to back
up and then select option 1 (daily, weekly,
monthly), option 2 (weekly
and monthly), option 3 (weekly
and monthly), or option 4 (no
backup)
Backup Folders
Folders are not backed up on the AS/400
except for quarterly backups.
Backup Schedule
·
Option 20 to Change backup
schedule
·
Y to Run
backups using this schedule
·
Enter type of backup and time with
appropriate day
·
Leave blank Occurrence of day in
month to run monthly backup
·
*NOMSG
for Hours before backup to send load tape message
Press enter to schedule the backup jobs
according to this schedule.
Backup Job Names
From a command line, enter wrkjobscde
to access the job scheduler. You can use this to schedule the backups, the job names for the same are as below.
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QEZBKTMMON
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QEZBKTMTUE
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QEZBKTMWED
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QEZBKTMTHU
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QEZBKTMFRI
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QEZBKTMSAT
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QEZBKTMSUN
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