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VMBACKUP and database mdisks

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From: Paul Lavoie
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1992 18:45
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I solved the problem using GREP, an IBM utility on public mdisk. Anyone
running VM should probably have it. Once the VMBACKUP report file is
received on rdr, it is received onto the a disk.
GREP can then search that file for a particular string within certain
columns.

VMBACKUP lists all userids and their mdisks along with a note in the
report. GREP will extract any occurrences of VMBXC...E (the E at the end
means that the mdisk was NOT backed up). I then instructed the exec to
send me a note warning me that certain mdisks were not backed up. GREP
can also write the records in a file, tag later records at the end of it, etc.
Very versatile.

Thanks to everyone who put some time on this.

Paul Lavoie at National Research Council, Ottawa, Ont.
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