Timothy J Massey <[email protected]> wrote on 03/18/2014 01:09:16 PM:
> Søren Brøndsted <[email protected]> wrote on 03/17/2014 04:43:16 AM:
>
> > On 14-03-2014 16:23, Timothy J Massey wrote:
> > >
> > > Are you using shared folders on i? You could also try to get the
> > > folders using SMB, which is what I have done when I've needed to.
I've
> > > never used BackupPC to back up an i (System i is the *only* place
where
> > > I still use tape!), but I've done other similar things, and I'd
rather
> > > use SMB than FTP...
> > I will try and activate this
>
> I think this is the better way to go. To my knowledge, very few
> people use FTP with BacukpPC, and a number of people use SMB. The
> tools are better understood and better tested.
Of course, the *real* better way to go is rsync. That's what I use in 95%
of instances; only if I can't make rsync work for some reason do I use
SMB.
Of course, there's no rsync on the i. However:
http://as400topics.blogspot.com/2012/01/installing-rsync-on-iseries-as400.html
I don't know if you can run it as a *server* (for rsyncd, which is what I
use), or what would be involved in using SSH (for rsync over ssh, which is
what others use), but it too is worth a consideration.
How much data are you trying to back up on the i? It might be easiser to
use rsync to push it out to some other system and grab it from there
instead of grabbing it from System i directly.
I respect the i a great deal in its proper role: mission-critical
database applications. For everything else, I sometimes handle the system
like everyone else seems to: get the data onto something else and deal
with it there! :)
Tim Massey
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