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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9.3.1.4 Restoring Tape Files To Disk
Use the RESTORE utility to copy files from magnetic tape to disk.
The following example restores the contents of $TAPE to a
specified sub-volume on $DISK1 located within the same system.
1> RESTORE $TAPE, $DISK1.*.*, NOPROMPT
Note. When the restore operation requires multiple cartridges, the
NOPROMPT option prevents user prompts between tapes. The
restore operation continues when the tape drive is ready and the
robot loads the next requested tape.
9.3.1.5 Viewing the Contents of a Tape
The RESTORE utility allows the contents of a labeled or unlabeled
cartridge tape before restoring files to disk to be viewed. The
following example instructs the RESTORE utility to verify the tape
on drive $TAPE0, list the files without writing the tape to disk, and
leave the tape online so that a RESTORE process can be started
without remounting the tape:
>1 RESTORE $TAPE0, *.*, VERIFYTAPE, LISTONLY, NOUNLOAD
9.3.1.6 Using the BLOCKSIZE Option
Larger BLOCKSIZE attribute values can be used on systems that
have installed a D30 or later version of the RESTORE utility.
Larger BLOCKSIZE values can improve BACKUP performance by
increasing the size of data records written to tape. The
BLOCKSIZE option specifies the number of 1024-byte increments
(blocks) in each record.