9710 (StorageTek) Addendum for NonStop Servers

Addendum to the StorageTek™ 9710 for the Tandem Environment
The 5155/5159 Digital Linear Tape CRE and NonStop Kernel
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For more information about labeled-tape processing, see “Using
Labeled and Unlabeled Tapes”. For more information on tape
DEFINEs, see the following manuals:
• Guardian User’s Guide
• Guardian Disk and Tape Utilities Reference Manual
• DSM/Tape Catalog User’s Guide
9.3.1.3 Backup Requiring Multiple Cartridges
For backups that require more than one cartridge tape, the robot
starts with the cartridge that was requested to begin the backup
process. If the BACKUP command includes the NOPROMPT
option, the robot loads additional tapes sequentially without
prompting the operator.
For example, if a BACKUP command that requires three cartridges
is issued, the robot loads the cartridges requested in sequential
order. The robot unloads the tape from the drive as the BACKUP
process finishes, and then loads the next cartridge.
Note. Cartridges will be loaded from random slot order. The robot
will track the inventory of tape cartridges by label.
If a BACKUP operation requires additional cartridges and the
requested cartridge is not in the 9710 Tape Subsystem, the
cartridges already written and load the request tape cartridge into
the CAP (Cartridge Access Port) must be removed (Dismount,
Eject).