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OpenVMS disk shadowing manual

Phillip Tusa — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 13:54:04 GMT

Greetings to all ...

I need a quick and detailed explanation of disk shadowing. Does anyone know where I can get a .pdf file on this topic?

Thanks!
Phil

Re: OpenVMS disk shadowing manual

Robert Brooks_1 — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 14:04:09 GMT

http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/732FINAL/aa-pvxmj-te/aa-pvxmj-te.HTML

and

http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/732FINAL/DOCUMENTATION/PDF/aa-pvxmj-te.PDF

Please note that the HBMM documentation is not in either of the above books; you'll need to find it in a V7.3-2 HBMM patch kit. It may be in other places; it hasn't made it into the standard doc set yet.

-- Rob

Re: OpenVMS disk shadowing manual

Robert Gezelter — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:10:19 GMT

Phil,

I concur with Rob Brooks on the appropriate citation for the documentation set.

If you are interested in non-traditional uses for shadowing, you may also be interested in my presentation, "Migrating OpenVMS Storage Environments without Interruption/Disruption", given at this year's HP Technology Forum. The slides from that presentation are available at http://www.rlgsc.com/hptechnologyforum/2007/1512.html

- Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com

Re: OpenVMS disk shadowing manual

Volker Halle — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 00:34:31 GMT

Phil,

the HBMM documentation (Host Based Mini Merge) can currently only be found in the HP OpenVMS Version 8.2 New Features and Documentation Overview manual:

http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/82FINAL/6675/6675pro_007.html#minimerge_fc_h

Volker.

Re: OpenVMS disk shadowing manual

Jon Pinkley — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 01:34:38 GMT

HBMM documentation is also available in VMS732_HBMM-V0200.PCSI-DCX_AXPEXE downloadable from the patch ftp site.

run that on an alpha, it will produce DEC-AXPVMS-VMS732_HBMM-V0200--4.PCSI, then use

$ product extract file vms732_hbmm /select=[SYSHLP]VS_HBMM_VMS732-V0100.PDF

and it will extract the PDF file you default directory.

I am not sure how different it is from the documentation Volker referenced.

Re: OpenVMS disk shadowing manual

John Travell — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 02:25:41 GMT

Jon wrote:
HBMM documentation is also available in VMS732_HBMM-V0200.PCSI-DCX_AXPEXE downloadable from the patch ftp site. File VS_HBMM_VMS732-V0100.PDF

Ummm. This is a "Product Description File", the content of which tells PCSI what to do with the files in the kit. It is NOT a "Portable Document File" readable on a PC with Adobe Acrobat... Type the file and you will see what I mean.
JT:

Re: OpenVMS disk shadowing manual

Volker Halle — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 02:39:06 GMT

John,

there are documentation files in VMS732_HBMM-V0200:

[SYSHLP]VS_HBMM_VMS732-V0100.PDF
[SYSHLP]VS_HBMM_VMS732-V0100.TXT

Volker.

Re: OpenVMS disk shadowing manual

Phillip Tusa — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 07:25:22 GMT

WOW! What a response!

Thank you so much for your responses!

Phil

Re: OpenVMS disk shadowing manual

Martin Vorlaender — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 08:41:37 GMT

John,

>>>
File VS_HBMM_VMS732-V0100.PDF

Ummm. This is a "Product Description File", the content of which tells PCSI what to do with the files in the kit. It is NOT a "Portable Document File" readable on a PC with Adobe Acrobat... Type the file and you will see what I mean.
<<<

$ type/page VS_HBMM_VMS732-V0100.PDF
%PDF-1.2
...

What you're thinking of, the kit's PDF file, has the extension .PCSI$DESCRIPTION in the kit.

cu,
Martin