Backup and Restore 2 Manual

BRCOM Commands
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BACKCOPY Command
dest-tape
is the tape device on which the backup image is copied from the source tape. You
can specify the name of a tapedrive, the logical device number of a tape drive, or a
define name.
run-option
specifies how BRCOM starts DMA. The options are the same as those of the
BACKUP command. For more information, see Table 6-2 on page 6-10 and
Table 7-3 on page 7-23
backup-object-spec
specifies the object to be backed up. The entire backup image data in the source
tape is copied to the destination tape. You cannot specify a selection of the data.
Therefore, this option can only be *. If a *.*.* is specified, it is interpreted as a
command for BR (T9074) and not for BR2 (T0744).
backcopy-job-option
is one of these Backup and Restore job options or a combination of them:

JOB Job Option on page 6-30

LISTALL Job Option on page 6-31

OUT Job Option on page 6-34

PAGELENGTH Job Option on page 6-34

These additional options are applicable exclusively to BACKCOPY:

TAPEDISPOSITIONIN - the disposition of the source tape

TAPEDISPOSITIONOUT - the disposition of the destination tape
The definition and description of the TAPEDISPOSITION Job Option
on
page 6-37 applies to both TAPEDISPOSITIONIN and TAPEDISPOSITIONOUT.

VERIFYTAPE Job Option on page 6-37
This job option applies only to the destination tape.
config-option
is the same as that of backup and restore jobs. For more information, see
config-option on page 5-4
A backcopy operation has less than a 10% performance degradation from the backup
job that created the source tape.