Running A Merge/Purge

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From: Ron Wigmore
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 13:15

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Our last Merge/Purge was done about three years ago.  We will be running
one this weekend, and I am not sure how to handle bad tapes.  Hopefully
someone out there has just run a Merge/Purge and so can readily tell me
how to correctly process bad tapes.

Some tapes are 'bad' because of incorrect dataset counts, etc., but most
simply get I/O errors when VMBACKUP trys to read the tape.  I know what
some of the volsers are, but there are probably many others among the
700 tapes that will be Merge/Purged.

Does anyone have any tips on how to minimize the length of time it will
take to do the Merge/Purge?  Given that when VMAMPU hits a bad tape, the
run will abend, will using the "FORCE" option enable the rest of the tape(s)
to be processed or are all of the files after that tape be lost?

All suggestions welcome!

Ron,,,

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