BackBox H4.00 User Manual

Support Tools
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Tools
Guardian tools
The following TACL and obey files programs are provided as support tools for various
reports, testing the performance of virtual drives, and for looking at traces etc..
Features that are essential parts of the operation are described in the previous
Operations chapter; especially see the section Daily cleanup (OBB017).
A reset procedure for the NonStop tape subsystem is documented in the
BackPak
Troubleshooting and Messages Manual.
BBREST – Restore files through MEDIACOM
BBREST is a TACL macro that helps users not familiar with MEDIACOM to execute
simple restores with predefined options.
BBREST prompts for parameters to generate the MEDIACOM commands INFO
DISKFILE and RECOVER DISKFILE. Only backups executed with the CATALOGFILES
option can be restored by BBREST.
The macro accepts a single file name or file name pattern, asks for optional
additional selection criteria to produce a list of tape files (i.e. backup executions) and
matching disk files.
This list of disk files can be browsed in a Detail report, or in a Summary report that
shows only the backup executions containing matching files.
Both the Detailed and Summary reports allow the selection of a backup execution for
submitting a restore. The user can loop between the browsing of Summary and
Detail reports before submitting a restore.
When a restore is to be submitted, the macro asks for the target location of restore
and initiates the RECOVER DISKFILE command.
When the RECOVER DISKFILE command is executed, MEDIACOM asks for
confirmation and issues a mount request in EMS. The request will be satisfied by the
BackPak EMS Extractor.