System information

Rel. 7.0 and 8.0 Red Book for AIX

Running the System Backup Maintenance Program

Use the System Backup Maintenance program to back up your Eclipse database files.

Schedule the database backup program to run nightly, during a quiet period on the server, when

no order entry transactions or data changes are occurring. Your installer will help you set this up.

Note: For the system backup to work, you must set the control maintenance

records that assign the backup administrator, the backup check time, and

the backup variance percent.

This topic includes the following information:

• Running the system backup maintenance program.

• Successful backup message.

• Unsuccessful backup message.

Running the System Backup Maintenance Program

Your installer will help the system administrator use the following procedure to schedule the

database backup program to run nightly. Schedule the backup to run during a quiet period on the

server, when no order entry transactions or data changes are occurring.

To run the system backup maintenance program:

1. From the System > System Programming > System Maintenance menu, select System

Backup Maintenance.

The system displays the Phantom Scheduler screen.

2. Schedule the program to run nightly.

Successful Backup Message

Upon completion of a successful backup, the system sends a message similar to the following

example:

The backup started at 11:50pm on 05/24/2002 completed after 3.76 hours.

9785400 blocks were backed up with a variance of 0.36%.

The message states the date and time the backup started, the duration of the backup, and the

number of blocks backed up. This incorporates the information provided in the /tmp/backup.chk

and /tmp/backup.err files. The variance identifies the change (+/-) in the number of blocks

backed up the previous night.