How can copy some data from disk to tape drive?

[Lorenc]

Hello!
I need to copy some traffic logs from disk to tape drive. The tape drive is not empty and i don't want to delete the data on the tape drive, but i want to add some other data on it.
Could somebody help me with this issue?
Thanks in advance.

[Steven Schweda]

Assuming that you're in the right forum, you
can probably use BACKUP /NOREWIND, but it's
hard to say, knowing nothing about what is on
the tape now or how it got there.

Many people use more than one tape.

[Jan van den Ende]

Lorenc,

$ BACKUP tapeunit: /NOREWIND

The vital qualifier here is /NOREWIND

And, by the way, that _IS_ the default!

-- In the (unhoped for!) case that your tape contains COPYd files instead of BACKUPed savesets, AFAIK you are out of luck.

Success.

Proost.

Have one on me.

jpe

[Steven Schweda]

> -- In the (unhoped for!) case that your tape
> contains COPYd files instead of BACKUPed
> savesets, AFAIK you are out of luck.

What's the problem? I haven't done it for a
long time, but doesn't COPY _always_ append
to the tape?

[Uwe Zessin]

I am rather defensive, so I explicitly position to end-of-tape:
$ backup/list tape:non-exit-file

I would not use a plain $COPY to save data on tape (be glad you don't have to try that on a vanilla VAX/VMS V3.0 system ;-)

[Arch_Muthiah]

Lorenc,

use /IGNORE=LABEL_PROCESSING qualifier which is necessary to prevent the BACKUP from processing tape expiration date.

MOunt cmd is not necessary as BACKUP automatically issues MOUNT/FOREIGN cmd for you.

Magnetic-tape save sets should only be processed with the BACKUP command; HP does not recommend that you use the COPY command. If the Magnetic-tape save sets created with the /INTERCHANGE qualifier, then probably DCL copy will work.

$backup/rewind/log/ignore=label disk:[log]*.log tape01:test

Archunan

[Jan van den Ende]

Archuan,


$backup/rewind/log/ignore=label disk:[log]*.log tape01:test


Tis command explicitly requires the tape to REWIND to the beginning-of-tape, and start writing there!
It does THE OPPOSITE of the requested (adding after anything already on the tape)!

Proost.

Have one on me.

jpe

[Jan van den Ende]

Lorenc,

I only just now looked at your profile, and noticed a big omission.

WELCOME to the VMS forum - the world's most stable and most secure OS.

Proost.

Have one on me.

jpe