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Monday, July 15, 2013

Implementing BACKUP in AS400 using native AS400 OS backup system

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.
·         QEZBKTMMON
·         QEZBKTMTUE
·         QEZBKTMWED
·         QEZBKTMTHU
·         QEZBKTMFRI
·         QEZBKTMSAT

·         QEZBKTMSUN

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