Save your entire server with GO SAVE: Option 21

Option 21 saves everything on your server and allows you to perform the save while you are not there.

Option 21 saves all of your data for additional licensed programs, such as Domino^® or iSeries™ Integration for Windows^® Server when you select to vary off your network servers. Also, if you have Linux^® installed on a secondary logical partition, you can back up that partition when you select to vary off your network servers.

Option 21 puts your server into a restricted state. This means that when the save begins, no users can access your server and the backup is the only thing that is running on your server. It is best to run this option overnight for a small server or during the weekend for larger servers. If you schedule an unattended save, make sure your server is in a secure location; after you schedule the save, you will not be able to use the workstation where the backup is initiated until the save is complete.

Note: If you are saving information on independent ASPs (also called independent disk pools in iSeries Navigator), make sure that you have varied on the independent ASPs that you want to save before using Option 21. For more information about independent ASPs , see the iSeries Information Center at http://www.ibm.com/eserver/iseries/infocenter.

Option Number	Description	Commands
21	Entire server (QMNSAVE)	ENDSBS SBS(ALL) OPTION(IMMED) CHGMSGQ MSGQ(QSYSOPR) DLVRY(BREAK or NOTIFY) SAVSYS SAVLIB LIB(NONSYS) ACCPTH(YES) SAVDLO DLO(ALL) FLR(ANY) SAV DEV('/QSYS.LIB/media-device-name.DEVD') + OBJ(('/') ('/QSYS.LIB' OMIT) + ('/QDLS' OMIT))¹ UPDHST(YES) STRSBS SBSD(controlling-subsystem)
¹The command omits QSYS.LIB file system because the SAVSYS command and the SAVLIB LIB(*NONSYS) command both save it. The command omits the QDLS file system because the SAVDLO command saves it.

Option Number

Description

Commands

Entire server (QMNSAVE)

ENDSBS SBS(*ALL) OPTION(*IMMED)
CHGMSGQ MSGQ(QSYSOPR) DLVRY(*BREAK or *NOTIFY)
SAVSYS 
SAVLIB LIB(*NONSYS) ACCPTH(*YES) 
SAVDLO DLO(*ALL) FLR(*ANY)
SAV DEV('/QSYS.LIB/media-device-name.DEVD') +
    OBJ(('/*') ('/QSYS.LIB' *OMIT) +
    ('/QDLS' *OMIT))¹ UPDHST(*YES) 
STRSBS SBSD(controlling-subsystem)

¹The command omits QSYS.LIB file system because the SAVSYS command and the SAVLIB LIB(*NONSYS) command both save it. The command omits the QDLS file system because the SAVDLO command saves it.

View entire GO SAVE checklist provides you with step-by-step instructions on how to save your entire server with menu option 21 of the GO SAVE command.