System Generation Manual for G-Series RVUs

Using Preprocessing Commands

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PARAM SYSGEN^BACKUPPARAM

You can use this PARAM to specify the tape device (and tape options) to which the

system image must be written. Using this PARAM overrides any of the following

commands, regardless of when entered:

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ASSIGN SYSGEN^TAPE

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PARAM TAPEMODE

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PARAM DENSITY

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PARAM UNLOAD

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PARAM PROMPT

The syntax is shown below.

" "

is a set of quotation marks that must surround the parameters passed to BACKUP

through TACL.

[\system.]$tape

is the name of the tape drive (and optionally the system) where SYSGENR must

write the system image.

option

is DENSITY, TAPEMODE, or UNLOAD, all of which have the same function and

syntax as described for the corresponding PARAM in this section; or BLOCKSIZE,

IGNORE, LISTALL, NOUNLOAD, or OPEN, which are BACKUP options described

in the Guardian Disk and Tape Utilities Reference Manual.

indicates that you do not wish to be prompted for further responses. If you do not

enter an exclamation point (!) either at the end of the PARAM specification or as

part of the response to the “Do you want to write a system image tape?” prompt,

you will continue to receive that prompt after writing each system image tape.

PARAM SYSGEN^BACKUPPARAM

" [\system.]$tape [,option ] [,option ]… [!] "