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How long the business can remain offline before orders, production, or customer service must resume.
AS400 Backup and
Disaster Recovery Services
We help you choose the AS400 backup solutions and disaster recovery approach that best fits your need:
- High Availability
- Cloud Backup Server
- Tape Recovery
- Audit and assessment
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IBM i Recovery Assessment
We Find the Gaps Your Backup Report Cannot Show
Before recommending a backup, replication, or disaster recovery solution, we establish five things that determine what recovery must look like for your business.
Data loss
How much work the business can afford to lose between the last recoverable save and the point of failure.
Re-keying effort
How many hours your team would spend recreating lost transactions from paper records, emails, spreadsheets, and other systems.
The dependency chain
Which EDI feeds, middleware platforms, reporting databases, applications, and third-party services must recover alongside the IBM i.
Decision authority
Who has the authority to declare a disaster and initiate recovery, even at three in the morning when senior stakeholders may be unavailable.
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Voices of Trust
Our partner in business strategy not only because of the domain knowledge but also because of the flexibility.
Nalashaa did a great job in understanding our needs and handling the project from both a technical and project management perspective.
We partnered with Nalashaa for our first RPA project and were truly impressed by their professionalism, responsiveness, and dedication. Despite the time difference, their core team stayed aligned with our hours.
Nalashaa's team is an invaluable partner to us; they understood our challenges, questioned ideas, and refined features as product owners. Their approach gave us a smoother system, better coordination, and reliable support.
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What our IBM i team delivers
AS400 Backup and Disaster Recovery Services
Here is what we handle across AS400 data backup and iSeries disaster recovery services, from the first assessment through to a tested restore.
Recovery Assessment and RTO/RPO Definition
We begin by understanding what downtime and data loss mean to your business.
Our team evaluates:
The operational and financial impact of downtime- The amount of lost work your teams could reasonably recreate
- Customer and contractual recovery obligations
- Cyber insurance requirements
- Systems and integrations that must recover alongside IBM i
- Current backup, journaling, and media-handling practices
Backup Strategy and BRMS Services
We design or improve your backup strategy based on the data, applications, and workloads that actually need protection.
This can include:
- Reviewing GO SAVE options 21, 22, and 23
- Establishing appropriate save schedules
- Configuring or optimizing BRMS
- Automating media tracking
- Replacing undocumented custom scripts
- Identifying libraries, objects, or components omitted from current saves
Journaling and IFS Protection
Journaling allows critical files to be recovered to a specific point in time instead of relying entirely on the previous full backup. It is also a foundational requirement for continuous replication.
We assess whether critical files are journaled correctly and whether your Integrated File System is included in the recovery strategy.
The IFS often contains:
- Java applications
- Open-source packages
- Integration files
- Archived spool files
- Documents and exported data
- Web and middleware components
Cloud Backup and Offsite Replication
We configure offsite replication to cloud-based virtual tape libraries so that backups leave the physical location without manual tape handling or courier coordination.
The replication schedule is built around your agreed RPO rather than forcing your recovery expectations to fit the limitations of an existing process.
For many mid-market IBM i environments, this provides a practical balance between recovery speed, operating effort, and cost.
Standby Environments and High Availability
When the business requires recovery in minutes rather than hours, we can design and implement replication to a standby IBM i environment.
Depending on your infrastructure, this includes:
- Logical replication
- PowerHA
- Assure MIMIX
- SAN-to-SAN replication
- Secondary IBM i environments
- Cloud-hosted recovery systems
Restore and Failover Testing
We restore your data onto separate hardware or a separate partition and verify that the recovered environment is usable. We document:
- What was restored successfully
- What was missing
- Which dependencies failed
- How long the recovery took
- Which steps required manual intervention
- What must be corrected before the next test
Engagement
How We Deliver It
Three steps from the first conversation to a recovery process you have seen work
Recovery Discussion
In a 30-minute call, you walk us through how backups run today, what is journaled, where saves are stored, and what your team would do if the production environment did not come back online.
No formal preparation is required. The goal is to understand your current recovery process, the systems involved, and the risks that need closer review.
IBM i Recovery Assessment
We review the complete recovery path, including the save strategy, BRMS configuration, journaling and IFS coverage, media handling, AS400 online backup processes, standby readiness, release compatibility, and connected system dependencies.
You receive a written assessment that identifies each gap, explains its potential business impact, and recommends the iSeries backup and recovery solutions needed to close it.
Implementation and Tested Recovery
We implement the approved AS400 disaster recovery solution and test it using separate hardware or a separate recovery environment.
The process, test results, issues, and required actions are documented so your team can manage recovery internally, or Nalashaa can support ongoing testing and readiness reviews.
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Why Teams Choose Nalashaa for AS400 Backup and Disaster Recovery
We combine deep IBM i expertise, dedicated delivery capacity, and AI-assisted analysis to document systems faster without removing engineering oversight.
RPG, CL, COBOL, and Db2 Expertise In-House
Work with IBM i specialists who understand the environment from the application layer through to the data and infrastructure. Our expertise spans RPG, CL, COBOL, Db2 for i, LPARs, integrations, and long-running AS400 environments.
That depth helps us identify the libraries, objects, applications, and dependencies that an older save routine may quietly miss.
Experience Across Complex IBM i Estates
Benefit from experience supporting enterprise IBM i environments across the US and Europe.
Our teams have worked with systems running business-critical finance, manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, and distribution workloads, where downtime is measured in missed orders, delayed production, and interrupted operations.
ISO-Certified Delivery
Protect business-critical systems and data through delivery practices aligned with ISO 9001:2015 for quality management and ISO 27001:2022 for information security.
This is especially important for backup and disaster recovery engagements, where the work involves access to production environments, recovery copies, system configurations, and sensitive business data.
Recovery Planning Beyond the IBM i Server
Almost no AS400 environment operates in isolation. EDI feeds, middleware, reporting databases, web applications, and third-party services may all need to recover alongside it.
We assess the complete dependency chain so the business can resume operations, not just restart the IBM i server.
24/7 Support and Scheduled Retesting
Maintain recovery readiness with round-the-clock support for save job failures, replication health, performance issues, and other backup-related incidents.
We can also manage a scheduled retesting cadence so the recovery plan continues to reflect the systems, applications, and dependencies your business actually runs.
