Re: VMBACKUP/E 1.0 and the SFS

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From: Ken Koester
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1993 12:43

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On Thu, 4 Feb 1993 12:32:09 EST Katherine Faella said:
>It has come to my attention now that most of our users are enrolled
>in the SFS that VMBACKUP/E 1.0 only half supports the SFS.  I say
>half because I have learned the hard way that you can not restore
>files from a tape that originally came from the SFS unless a catalog
>is available.  This is mentioned in the Sys Prog Ref for VMBACKUP

Yes, as a result of this, we have to follow every disaster backup immediately
with a full backup so that our users don't try to restore files from the
disaster (off-site) tapes.  Very kludgy--much rather dump the catalog instead.
For real fun, try restoring a storage group or a file pool some time.

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