JobPak Support

Copying JobPak From an Existing System to Another System

The procedure outlined in this document is useful for the following situations:

• Moving JobPak to a new system
• Disaster recovery to a different machine
• Full restoration to the same machine

Note that some versions of JobPak create 10 directories for file storage and other versions may create 100 directories. Only 10 directories are used even if 100 directories are created. If your version creates 100 directories, please ignore the 90 unused directory names – they don’t take up any real space on your drives.

Some customers routinely delete unused programs and other files from their systems. During the restoration process on the new machine, there are a couple of programs in the NSD account (VOLSETUP.PUB.NSD and RJOBDATA.JPAK.NSD) that have probably not been used in a very long time and you may need to run them. If they are missing from your system, you may obtain them from the JobPak download page. The recovery programs in this download may be used with any version of JobPak. The download file is an MPE store-to-disc file of the entire JobPak installation media. You will have to extract the desired programs/files from the download.

On the old machine:

• Backup the NSD account
  • Backup up EVERYTHING, including the /NSD POSIX directories
  • Make sure that the JobPak job is not running during the backup
  • Make sure no one is using the STATUS.JPAK.NSD program during the backup
  • Normally this is covered by @.@.NSD, but check your backup software and then check the output list of what was backed up
  • If you are using a user volume set with JobPak, ensure the /NSD/USERVOL/files# directories and all their contents are on your backup
  • If you are not using user volume sets with JobPak, make sure the /NSD/files# directories are backed up.
  • PEXL.XL.NSD will not be backed-up -- that’s okay. When you run the SETUP program on the new machine it is recreated.

• If you can, keep the old machine running until JobPak on the new machine is working properly – it makes starting over easier, not that you’ll ever have to though.

On the new machine, perform the following steps:

1. Build the NSD account as outlined in the JobPak Installation Instructions, or restore the NSD accounting structure from your existing directory type backup.
   If you don’t have a copy of the instructions handy, they are available at JPinstall.pdf

2. If you are NOT using a user volume set for spoolfile data storage, go to step 4.

   From the backup tape you created on the OLD machine, restore the following groups in the NSD account. Do not restore any POSIX directories at this time or you may have to purge the account and start over.

   • EXAMPLE
   • JPAK
   • JPAKNEW
   • PUB
   • XEQ
   • XL

3. If the old machine used user volume sets or you want to use a user volume set to store your spoolfile data onto, perform the following step:
   HELLO MGR.NSD,PUB
   
   VOLSETUP.PUB <uservolsetname>
   
   Where <uservolsetname> is the name of the user volume set you wish to store JobPak spoolfile data onto. This command creates the USERVOL.NSD group and builds the POSIX directories to store the data into, as well as the symbolic links necessary to locate the directories.

4. Restore the entire NSD account from the backup, including the POSIX directories under the /NSD root directory, as well as any other groups not already restored. Be patient, depending on the amount of data you have it can take longer than you may expect.

   Usually @.@.NSD is sufficient, but check your backup/restore software and also check the restore log.

   Once you have restored everything, you should have either ten (or 100) symbolic links or ten (or 100) directories named (use the MPE command LISTFILE /NSD/@,2 to verify this):

   /NSD/files0 thru /NSD/files9

   If you are using or have used User Volume Sets to store your data, then you should also have ten (or 100) directories named (use LISTFILE /NSD/USERVOL/@.2):

   /NSD/USERVOL/files0 thru /NSD/USERVOL/files9

5. Ensure that you are signed on as MGR.NSD in the PUB group
   HELLO MGR.NSD,PUB

6. Enter the command
   LISTF JOBDATA

   If the JOBDATA.PUB.NSD file does not exist, recreate the file with:

   RJOBDATA.JPAK

   and then rebuild the STATUS log information:

   MERGEDIT.JPAK.NSD "-rebuild 0000"

   You can replace the 0000 with the 24-hour time that your STATUS logs switch over. You can re-execute the MERGEDIT command as many times as you wish until you get it right.

7. If you are using JobPak 6.1F, perform the following command:
   MERGEDIT.JPAK "-logbe"

8. Run SETUP.JPAK.NSD, choose UPDATE, and when prompted, enter your activation key or keys.
   If you are restoring from your backup to the same machine that the backup was created on, the activation keys were most likely restored already, and in that case you do not need to enter any new keys.
   SETUP will build any other required files that may still be missing, and recreate the PEXL.XL.NSD file, which probably wasn’t on your backup.

You should now have access to your data via the STATUS program, as well as be able to restart the JobPak job.

If you have any questions, please contact Nobix support at support@nobix.com, or (800) 538-3818, or (925) 659-3500. If you need after hours support, call (925) 659-3500, transfer to extension 160 and leave a detailed message. We will call you right back, unless of course you don’t leave your phone number. Yes, we have gotten calls in the middle of the night with detailed messages about very urgent problems, but no name or phone number.