Open System Services Management and Operations Guide (G06.25+, H06.03+)

Managing OSS Files
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Backing Up User Files
INFO ALIAS *
LOG
Edit these log files to create OBEY files for Safeguard so that the attributes of
each file-sharing group, user ID, and user ID alias can be recreated if
necessary.
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Using the T9074 Backup and Restore utilities (if the node you are backing up
uses the same RVU of Safeguard as the node you will be restoring). The
relevant user ID information is kept in the following files:
$SYSTEM.SYSTEM.USERID
$SYSTEM.SYSTEM.USERIDAK
$SYSTEM.SAFE.LUSERID
$SYSTEM.SAFE.LUSERIDG
Use the OPEN option when doing the BACKUP operation. Ensure that no
Safeguard changes are made while BACKUP is running.
Backing Up User Files
You should back up and restore all Guardian files and SQL data tables used by OSS
applications using normal procedures for Guardian data:
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Recover audited files and tables using TMF; nonaudited files and tables
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Backup and recover unaudited files and tables using a version of Backup/Restore
Use Backup and Restore 2.0 BRCOM commands to back up SQL/MX and OSS files.
Use Backup and Restore utility (T9074) commands to backup SQL/MP and Enscribe
files.
Although several OSS filesets can be simultaneously backed up—assuming that your
system has more than one storage device—each fileset backup is a separate task.
Consolidate Changing OSS Files
To make backup easier, organize your filesets so that changing data files are on
filesets that are regularly backed up while static files are on filesets that are backed up
only occasionally. You can simplify backup by copying isolated, changing files from
filesets that are not periodically backed up to those that are, just before you perform a
backup. This action allows the dynamic files to be backed up without requiring an
entire file-system backup. You could write a shell script to do this. For information
about shell scripts, see the Open System Services User’s Guide.
You can use the find command to produce a list of files that must be backed up and
then pipe this list to the backup command pax. For example, to back up all user files
that were modified in the past week onto the tape using the tape device $TAPE, use a
command such as:
find /user/* -mtime -7 | pax -w -f /G/TAPE