Backup and Restore 2 Manual

BRCOM Commands
Backup and Restore 2 Manual—522696-019
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Guidelines
Guidelines
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The tape set from which the image data is being copied must be created using
Backup and Restore or Backup and Restore 2. You can specify a backup job (tape
file) or a tape to copy.
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If a fatal error is received from either the source tape device or the destination tape
device, BACKCOPY returns event message 5006 (file-system error) and aborts.
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The job status output for BACKCOPY is the same as the output for a backup job,
except:
1. When the DETAIL setting is used, the total number of all tapes written is
displayed in the ‘tapes used’ field.
2. For STATUS DETAIL, two tapedrive fields, ‘source service’ and ‘destination
service’, are displayed instead of the ‘tapedrive’ field.
For the brief job status of a backcopy job, see Example 8-2 on page 8-2. For the
detailed job status of a backcopy job, see Example 8-4 on page 8-5
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The output of a BACKCOPY command with the LISTALL option is the same as that
of a BACKUP command with the LISTALL option, except for these differences:
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In place of the tape information printed at the beginning of a backcopy (the job
header record), the following is printed:
*Source tape* Tape #n, [Volume id: <tape-name>,] Drive:
<name>
*Destination tape* Tape #m, [Volume id: <tape-name>,]
Drive: <name>
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When a source tape is changed, the following is printed where tape change
information would have been printed for a backcopy job:
*Source tape change* Tape #n, [Volume id: <tape-name>,]
Drive: <name>
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When a destination tape is changed, the following is printed where tape
change information would have been printed for a backcopy job:
*Destination tape change* Tape #m [Volume id:
<tape-name>,] Drive: <name>
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The summary information for BACKCOPY looks like this:
Job completed
Last error or warning occurred on page 1
Process elapsed time = 0:00:58.496
Objects processed = 6
Objects backcopied = 6 Objects not backcopied = 0