11. Backup and Recovery

The LANSA libraries and IFS objects must be backed up with your daily and weekly backups.

The LANSA libraries:

xxxPGMLIB

Weekly and After Upgrade or EPC applied.

xxxDTALIB

Daily

xxxCOMLIB

Weekly and After Upgrade or EPC applied

Partition libraries

Daily

IFS objects

/LANSA_xxxpgmlib and /QOpenSys/LANSA_xxxpgmlib

 

If LANSA Integrator is Installed:

xxxJSMLIB

Weekly

IFS objects

/LANSA_xxxjsmlib

 

Before installing an EPC or Upgrading LANSA for i:

Backup all the LANSA IFS objects and LANSA libraries

LANSA Application Data Files (Partition Libraries)

The application data files, in which end users add, change and delete records, should be backed up daily as a regular housekeeping task as part of your site's security strategy. Failure to backup these files daily could lead to serious or total loss of your business data.

Also see

11.1 A Simple Restore Strategy