BackBox H4.00 User Manual
iii BackBox H4.00 User Manual
Configuration data on each VT Controller ..................................................... 63
Images of virtual volumes kept in Data Store(s) ........................................... 63
Operations .............................................................................. 65
VTC STARTUP ................................................................................................ 65
VTC SHUT DOWN ........................................................................................... 65
DISABLING THE AUTOMATIC MOUNTING OF VOLUMES .................................................. 65
ENABLING THE VOLUME AUTOMATIC MOUNT ............................................................. 65
MANUAL LOAD AND UNLOAD ............................................................................... 66
UNLABELED TAPES ........................................................................................... 66
DAILY CLEANUP (OBB017) ................................................................................ 67
Scheduling ......................................................................................................................................................... 67
OBB017 list: ...................................................................................................................................................... 68
BB017_FREE_EXPIRED .............................................................................. 68
BB023_DEL_BACKEDUP ............................................................................. 70
BB022_CHECK_SPACE .............................................................................. 73
BATCH SUBMISSION OF BACKUP SCRIPTS BY BB036_BACKUP_STORE ........................... 75
BATCH DEVICE RESERVATION BY BB020_RESERVE .................................................. 75
WINDOWS DATA STORE: RECOVERING A DISK PATH .................................................. 76
RECOVER THE BACKPAK CATALOG......................................................................... 77
RECOVER THE BACKPAK NONSTOP ENVIRONMENT ...................................................... 78
Recovery from backups on a new NonStop system ........................................ 79
Recovery on a prepared DR system ............................................................ 79
Recovery hints ......................................................................................... 80
Tools ...................................................................................... 81
GUARDIAN TOOLS ............................................................................................ 81
BBREST – Restore files through MEDIACOM ................................................. 81
TMFC2 – Extensions to TMFCOM commands on media ................................... 85
BB000_COLLECT – Gather information for support ........................................ 88
BB010 - Extracts virtual volume records ...................................................... 90
BB044 – Series of tape labels Report .......................................................... 90
OBB011 - List of volumes in Windows files Data Stores ................................. 93
OBB012 - List of virtual volumes ................................................................ 93
OBB018 - Statistics report ......................................................................... 94
OBB019 - Statistics report – script controller ................................................ 96
OBB021 – Emulation statistics report .......................................................... 99
OBB038 – List of encrypted volumes ......................................................... 101
OBB039 – List of virtualizations / materializations ....................................... 102
Extracting statistics for workstation reporting tools ..................................... 104
BB030_EXTRACT_STATS usage.................................................................................................................. 104
Download the file to the workstation ............................................................................................................... 106
Usage in the workstation tool .......................................................................................................................... 106
OEMS - EMS messages extraction ............................................................. 111
OEMS2 - EMS messages display ............................................................... 111
TAPEWR - Performance test ..................................................................... 112
TAPERD - Performance test ...................................................................... 113
Trace macros ......................................................................................... 114
MS WINDOWS TOOLS .................................................................................... 114










