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>I would not put money on restoring minidisks without catalogs.  You
>see, I ran into a problem in restoring minidisk backups without
>the catalog.

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.
(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.

Margaret King
Michigan State University