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тАО10-10-2008 10:52 AM
тАО10-10-2008 10:52 AM
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тАО10-10-2008 11:00 AM
тАО10-10-2008 11:00 AM
Re: Tape label on multi tape OpenVMS backup
The label will be unchanged (which may mean re-written with the same volume label) if you use the /LABEL parameter.
See the manual on the OpenVMS www site at http://www.hp.com/go/openvms or the online HELP text for details.
- Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com
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тАО10-10-2008 11:15 AM
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Re: Tape label on multi tape OpenVMS backup
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тАО10-10-2008 11:34 AM
тАО10-10-2008 11:34 AM
Re: Tape label on multi tape OpenVMS backup
> those labels.
Mount each tape, and ask what its label is
(F$GETDVI() or whatever)?
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тАО10-10-2008 12:29 PM
тАО10-10-2008 12:29 PM
Re: Tape label on multi tape OpenVMS backup
to make the command complete, use /LABEL=(l1,l2,l3...) --and-- /EXACT.
Be prepared for BACKUP-F- errors (fatal backup errors) if any one tape does NOT have a (readable!) label that exactly matches the next one, ie, the first label out-of-order or un-readable WILL and your BACKUP command at that moment.
hth
Proost.
Have one on me.
jpe
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тАО10-10-2008 01:04 PM
тАО10-10-2008 01:04 PM
Re: Tape label on multi tape OpenVMS backup
JPE says to use /EXACT_ORDER *and* /LABEL.
My understanding of Russ's requirement and my understanding of BACKUP makes me think that Russ should use /EXACT_ORDER *without* /LABEL.
A reading of HELP BACKUP /EXACT_ORDER or the BACKUP documentation will be useful to you.
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тАО10-10-2008 01:53 PM
тАО10-10-2008 01:53 PM
Re: Tape label on multi tape OpenVMS backup
The /LABEL stuff gets involved when you want to verify the labels; Russ indicates he wants BACKUP to leave the existing labels alone. (Which is kind of an odd filing system, but it's also not the first time oddness has been requested from BACKUP.) Which indicates /EXACT_ORDER as a soliton qualifier.
Check the BACKUP manual here, and run a few test cases to try this. It's seemingly (unusually?) clear in this particular area.
BACKUP is hugely convoluted as a user interface goes and the qualifiers interact in strange and unusual ways; I've been at it for eons now, and it's still common practice for me to read the manual to confirm the particular syntax for some permutation of BACKUP I don't use regularly.
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тАО10-10-2008 11:38 PM
тАО10-10-2008 11:38 PM
Re: Tape label on multi tape OpenVMS backup
>>>
My understanding of Russ's requirement and my understanding of BACKUP makes me think that Russ should use /EXACT_ORDER *without* /LABEL.
<<<
??? And WHAT order can BACKUP check/maintain to be followed /EXACTly ??
Yeah, that would be the order given by the /LABEL=(,,,) values...
I have never even considered, nor had an impression, that it could be otherwisw.
fwiw
Proost.
Have one on me.
jpe
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тАО10-13-2008 07:19 AM
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