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fbackup

Martin Robinson — Wed, 12 Jun 2002 18:47:29 GMT

How can I perform an fbackup from a DLT lib with two drives. Using both drives

Re: fbackup

Sandip Ghosh — Wed, 12 Jun 2002 18:54:14 GMT

Specify the different drive (device file) by -f to do the fbackup in both the drives.

Sandip

Re: fbackup

A. Clay Stephenson — Wed, 12 Jun 2002 18:54:52 GMT

If by using two drives, you mean simultaneously, you can't. You can specify multiple -f options and fbackup will use the devices sequentially as capacity is reached.

If you want to use fbackup and both drives at the same time, you will need to use separate fbackup commands in a divide-and-conquer approach.

Re: fbackup

harry d brown jr — Wed, 12 Jun 2002 18:56:15 GMT

use TWO "-f device" options

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harry

Re: fbackup

A. Clay Stephenson — Wed, 12 Jun 2002 18:57:51 GMT

Hi again:

I should also add that you really ought to look into a commercial backup product like OmniBack so that the operations like loading the tape drives are all done automatically for you. You can, of course, script all of this but OB2 is much easier and 'point-and-click' restores are hard to beat.

Re: fbackup

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 12 Jun 2002 18:59:25 GMT

Hi Robert:

I presume that you want an unattended backup and that it will span two tapes.

If this is the case, have a look at the man pages for 'fbackup'. In the configuration file ('-c) is an optional entry "chgvol". The value of this argument is the name of an executable script for changing tape volumes.

Technical Knowledge Base (TKB) document #DKKBRC00006969 has one such example script for autoloaders. TKB document #KBRC00001392 gives another, genearlized sample.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: fbackup

PIYUSH D. PATEL — Wed, 12 Jun 2002 19:08:33 GMT

Hi,

By using fbackup you cant perform this operation on both the drives simultaneously.

You can buy Omniback for using both the drives.

Piyush