Specifications

Reading back data of a recording being recorded in infinite mode may end up in reading back 
data which will be (very) soon overwritten by the MDR. 
copy-recording Host Disks <FileName> [<RecordingName>] 
Copy data from host workstation file(s) (specified by 
<FileName>) to the MDR 
disk subsystem (recording specified by 
<RecordingName>). The 
<RecordingName> parameter must be the name (or number in the recording table) 
of an existing recording. 
If the recording data is split into several files then the MDR software will try to 
copy as much data as possible. For instance on the 
x86-win32 platform, if the 
recording size is 5 GiB and 5 files (named from 
Recording1.MDR.0 to 
Recording1.MDR.4) are present on the host computer then the user can copy the 
5GiB of data using the following command: 
copy host disks Recording1.MDR.0 <RecordingName> 
If the recording size is lower than the file size then only the recording size will be 
read from the file and copy to the recording. If greater, then the recording is 
truncated and the size is changed to the file size. 
copy-recording Disks Tape [<RecordingName>] [<FirstRecordingBlock>-
<LastRecordingBlock>]
Copy data from the MDR disk subsystem (recording specified by 
<RecordingName>) to SCSI tapes (one or several tapes according to the recording 
length and the internal drive compression rate). 
<FirstRecordingBlock> and  <LastRecordingBlock> specify the range of user 
blocks to copy (first and last user blocks included). If this range is not specified 
then the entire recording data is copied. 
copy-recording Tape Disks [<RecordingName>] 
Copy data from SCSI tapes (1 or several tapes according to the recording length) 
to the MDR disk subsystem (recording specified by 
<RecordingName>). 
Examples:  copy-recording disks host ./data/today. Recording_1 
copy-recording host disks ./today.Recording_1.mdr250.0 1 
create-disk-group 
Syntax: 
create-disk-group <DiskGroupName> <DiskIdList> 
Description:  Create a disk group. 
The name of the disk group is specified by the argument 
<DiskGroupName>. 
The disks to be included into the disk group are specified using a list (using commas ‘,’ 
or dashes ‘-‘) containing their number (or identifier). The identifier of a disk can be 
retrieved using the 
list-fc-devices command: it corresponds to the number written in 
the first column. 
Examples: 
create-disk-group MyDiskgroup 1,2-4-7 
  Create-disk-group MyDiskgroup 4-8
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