User`s guide

Backing Up Shift Configurations
By routinely making a backup copy (on a diskette) of your shift configurations
and system tables files, you will have a current version to use if you need to
restore your system after a problem.
If your hard disk drive ever becomes
inoperable, you can also use your backup copy to run CMS from the floppy
disk drive. However, you cannot save historical data or administer CMS
when you run CMS using the floppy diskette. (For more information see
“Running CMS From a Floppy Diskette Backup,” in Section 9.)
NOTE: If you plan to archive your historical data, see Section 8,
“Archiving Data”.
The Archiving Data procedure is different from the
one described here and must be done on a different diskette.
COPYING SHIFT
CONFIGURATIONS
SYSTEM TABLES
To make a backup copy of your shift configurations and system tables files:
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Exit to MS-DOS by pressing [F8] (labeled “Exit to DOS”) on the CMS
Menu.
Insert the diskette labeled “SYSTEM 25 CMS SYSTEM WORKING COPY”
into disk drive A. For instructions on how to make a working copy
diskette, see “Duplicating the CMS Diskettes” in Section 3.
To change to the cmsmgmt directory on the hard disk, type the following
command at the c> prompt:
cd \ cms \ cmsmgmt
then press [Enter].
Change to the cmsmgmt directory on the floppy diskette as follows. At
the c> prompt type
a:
then press [Enter].
At the A> prompt type
cd \ cms \ cmsmgmt
then press [Enter].
To copy all your shift configurations from the hard disk onto the floppy
diskette, type
copy c:shift*.cms a:
then press [Enter].
To copy the system tables onto the floppy diskette, type
copy c:systbls.cms a:
then press [Enter].
Remove the working copy diskette when the in-use light on disk drive A
goes out.
With a felt tip pen, write the current date on a label and attach it to the
diskette.
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