Backup and Restore 2 Manual

BRCOM BACKUP Command

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BRCOM BACKUP Command Syntax

The syntax for a BRCOM BACKUP command is:

tape-device-name

is the name of a tape drive to be used for an unlabeled-tape backup operation or a

DEFINE name for a labeled-tape backup operation. Backup and Restore 2 does

not support virtual tape drives created by TAPESIM because TAPESIM does not

support LBA. Any attempt to get the LBA on a tape drive created by TAPESIM

results in file-system error 2. To back up to an unlabeled tape, specify the tape

device directly and do not use a DEFINE. It is one of these:

{ [ \node.]$device | [ \node.]$ldev | define-name }

tape-device-name1 and tape-device-name2

such that two tape devices, tape-device-name1, tape-device-name2,

can be specified during backup, where these are either both TAPE defines,

both TAPECATALOG defines, or both tape devices. Any BACKUP command

invoked with both tape-device-name1 and tape-device-name2

specified will be considered a parallel backup job.

node

is the name of the node (system) where the tape drive resides.

device

is the name of the magnetic tape drive, such as $TAPE1.

ldev

is the logical device number of the magnetic tape drive, such as $17.

BACKUP

tape-device-name

( tape-device-name1, tape-device-name2 )

[, run-option [, run-option ] ... ]

, backup-object-spec

( backup-object-spec1 ), ( backup-object-spec2 )

[ , backup-job-option, [backup-job-option]...]

[ , config-option, [config-option]...]

Note. The parallel backup feature is supported only on systems running H06.05 or

later H-series RVUs.