Back up your System i over the holiday

Any code or direction in regards to working examples would be great.

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It sounds like you aren't using BRMS for your backup, and that's too bad ...

However, if you have written a process that does what you want it to do after submitting it via a menu option, you can achieve the same results by scheduling this command to run using the i5/OS Base Job Scheduler. There is no elegant way to schedule this to run every other week using the Base Job Scheduler, but I believe you could get the results you are looking for by using the OMITDATE parameter.

For example, if you wanted your backup process to run every other Friday at 9 p.m. you could create a job schedule entry like this:

ADDJOBSCDE JOB(MYBUJOB)

CMD(CALL PGM(COMMAND))

FRQ(*WEEKLY)

SCDDATE(NONE)

SCDDAY(*FRI)

SCDTIME(2100)

SAVE(*YES)

OMITDATE(111607 113007 121407 12280 010408) <--- I omit every other Friday

USER(BUUSER)

However, you would have to remember to update the OMITDATE list on a regular basis to keep things running.

As for using a Save file, this won't work well for a multi-library backup and it won't work at all for a SAVSYS process.

However, as of V5R4, there is something called Virtual Tape that would work just fine! Anything that you can write to a REAL tape you can write to a VIRTUAL tape. IBM provides information on how to set up a Virtual Tape environment.

Keep in mind that writing your backup to disk will require that you have enough disk space to hold all your data. You don't want to get into a situation where your backup process fills up your disk storage, causing the system to shut down!

Good Luck !