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Article #661Re: VMBACKUP restores w/o catalog
From: Mark A. Stevens
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1993 09:38
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1993 09:38
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In article <L-VMCTR%93020811571342@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU> 19277MAK@MSU.BITNET (Margaret King) writes: >>I would not put money on restoring minidisks without catalogs. You >>see, I ran into a problem in restoring minidisk backups without >>the catalog. I would. I've had to do it and it works. >On an earlier version of VMBACKUP I remember reading that it could >not restore without a catalog if the Pack option had been used on the >dump. I don't know whether this is fixed in the current version or >not; we keep our catalogs and have never tried to restore without one. At 5.2 restore without catalogs works and all of our tapes are packed (I think ;-) ). I think the limitation on packing had to do with VMBSAR/VMBRITS who couldn't read a packed tape. That restriction is gone as far as I can tell. >(Although I think I once had to restore a DDR of an old catalog disk to a >test system in order to get a catalog back so I could restore some file >for a user.) It would be nice to have a way to create a catalog and >then dump it (that one catalog, not the whole catalog disk) to tape, >keep that tape with the backup, and have VMBACKUP know how to use that >tape to make itself a catalog for a restore. Maybe even put the catalog >on the end of the last tape or something. I believe that keeping a catalog built from a tape is a standing enhancement request, but I don't know the track number. -- Mark A. Stevens Phone: 708-534-0200 Systems Programmer Internet: xmas@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu Educational Computing Network BITNET: XMAS@ECNUXA.BITNET Board of Governors Universities VMSHARE: ECE/MARK
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fe320,d786423465aa0416,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfe320,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1993-02-09 01:38:05 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!uvaarpa!darwin.sura.net!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!psuvax1!news.ecn.bgu.edu!uxa.ecn.bgu.edu!not-for-mail From: xmas@uxa (Mark A. Stevens) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.l-vmctr Subject: Re: VMBACKUP restores w/o catalog Date: 9 Feb 1993 03:38:05 -0600 Organization: Educational Computing Network Lines: 32 Message-ID: <1l7u1t$mmc@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> References: <L-VMCTR%93020811571342@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: uxa.ecn.bgu.edu