iSeries (AS/400) Recovery and Availability

Introduction

This course teaches delegates how to implement backup and recovery and explores the many different availability options provided on the iSeries.

What you will learn

On completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Identify the different backup strategies and windows that are available.
• Choose the most appropriate strategy.
• Identify and install appropriate system hardware and software recovery options.
• Install and manage journaling and commitment control.
• Recover from a journaled application failure.
• Select the save operations to complete a backup.
• Take a complete system backup.
• Restore partially or completely after a major system failure.
• Ensure that existing backups are adequate to meet the continuing needs of the business.
• Identify the components of a disaster recovery plan.

Who should attend

This course is suitable for senior operators, system administrators and data processing managers who have responsibility for recovery and availability, and for staff involved in disaster recovery planning.

Pre-requisites

Delegates need some experience of iSeries Operations. This can be gained from either the iSeries OPERATIONS course with further experience, or the iSeries SYSTEM FACILITIES course.

Course content

• Failure types and risks.
• Transactions and recovery.
• The save window and availability strategies.
• Availability building blocks.
• Calculating the cost of downtime.
• Disk configuration.
• Auxiliary storage pool configuration.
• Library and non library ASPs.
• Moving objects in and out of an ASP.
• Hardware required for device parity protection.
• Configuring device parity protection.
• Starting and stopping device parity protection.
• Planning for and starting disk mirroring.
• Levels of protection offered with mirroring.
• Multiple systems.
• Business recovery services.
• Surviving a disaster.
• System managed access path protection.
• Advantages and disadvantages of journaling.
• Starting and stopping journaling.
• Journal management and recovery.
• Journal and journal receiver commands.
• Objectives of commitment control.
• Implementing commitment control.
• The IFS and the iSeries (AS/400) File System.
• Planning save operations.
• Saving objects from the different file systems.
• Performance of tape drives and tapes.
• Using save while active.
• Continuously powered main storage.
• Uninterruptible power supplies.
• Damaged objects and reclaim storage.
• Recovering from a power failure.
• Recovery commands and authority.
• Sequence of operations to restore objects.
• Database file considerations during recovery.
• Recovering the entire system.
• Save storage and disaster recovery.

Materials

A course manual with supporting documentation is provided. The course includes multiple practical sessions to demonstrate journaling, commitment control, and save and restore procedures on an iSeries. A further group practical involves carrying out a complete backup of an iSeries, and a complete system re-build following a major system failure.

Schedule

Course bring rewritten.

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