Backup and Restore 2 Manual

BRCOM BACKUP Command

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TAPEDISPOSITION Job Option

This job option specifies the position and location of the tape at the end of the backup

job. UNLOAD is the default.

BOT

rewinds the tape to the beginning and leaves it online when the backup job

completes.

NOREWIND

leaves the tape positioned at its current location and online at the end of the

backup job.

UNLOAD

dismounts the tape at the end of the backup job.

Guidelines

Specify the NOREWIND option only when using CLASS TAPECATALOG defines and

tape volumes in an APPEND ON pool. This option leaves the tape positioned at the

end of the backup job and ready for a subsequent appended job on the same tape.

VERIFYTAPE Job Option

This job option specifies whether to check the data on tape for data integrity. OFF is

the default.

examines all the data on each tape for the current job for data integrity after the

tape is written.

OFF

does not examine the data on each tape for the current job for data integrity.

Examples

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OSS Backup Examples



SQL/MX Backup Examples on page 6-47



Backing Up Both OSS and SQL/MX Objects on page 6-55

TAPEDISPOSITION { BOT | NOREWIND | UNLOAD }

VERIFYTAPE { ON | OFF }