MKS Implementer 2006 Administration Guide

Chapter 4: Remote Distribution Concepts and Setup
Saving and Restoring Remote Tape Archives
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Implementer Receiver users who require access to the archives of every change made to an
environment must often balance this requirement with the disk space required to store the
archive copies. Archiving to tape provides a solution for off-line storage of archived
member/objects in remote environments.
You can save and remove all archives or specific archives, with access to archive information
for each tape. You can also selectively restore archives back to the system. Once restored, you
can browse the changes and/or recover the changes.
Key Considerations
Remote environments must be set up for archiving. For more information, see
“Environments” on page 81.
Tape archives include IFS and DLO files and directories, if archived.
The archive to tape function uses two temporary libraries Implementer automatically
creates at the beginning of the process and deletes at the end. Implementer provides the
data area IMARCTAP to store the names of these temporary libraries. The default data
are values are IMARCTAP1 and IMARCTAP2.
CAUTION If you change the default library names in the IMARCTAP data area, you
must specify library names that do not already exist on the system as Implementer
creates and deletes the libraries as needed. For details, see “Implementer Data
Areas” on page 402.
You can initiate all archive to tape functions from the Archives to Tape menu. Access to
archive menu options and commands requires signing on as QSECOFR or with a profile
that has a group profile of QSECOFR or all QSECOFR capabilities.
The archive to tape and restore from tape jobs can be run interactively or in batch.
To save an archive to tape on the Implementer Receiver
1 From the Implementer Receiver menu, select option 10, Archive to Tape. The Archives
to Tape menu displays.
2 Select option 1, Save Archives to Tape to prompt the Archives to Tape (ISAVARC)
command.
The ISAVARC command can also be prompted from the command line. The command
can be processed interactively, submitted for batch processing, or added to a backup
routine to automate the removal of new archives.