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Backing Up and Restoring Disk Information

Guardian User’s Guide—425266-001

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Backcopy Examples

Making one copy of an unlabeled tape

This Backcopy command makes one copy of an unlabeled backup tape. The source tape

is on tape drive $TAPE1, and the destination tape is on tape drive $TAPE2. The format

of the new tape is the same format as the source tape. The LISTALL option causes

Backcopy to list all files that are copied.

Making two copies of an unlabeled tape

This Backcopy command makes two copies of an unlabeled backup tape. The source

tape is on tape drive $TAPE1, and the destination tapes are on tape drives $TAPE2 and

$TAPE3. The format of the new tapes is the archive tape format.

Making one copy of a labeled tape

This Backcopy command makes one copy of a labeled tape with volume identification

HD004. The ADD DEFINE command sets the attributes for this labeled tape. The

source tape is on tape drive $TAPE1; Backcopy displays a message for you to mount the

destination tape. The destination tape is unlabeled because the TAPE DEFINE does not

define it. The format of the new tape is the archive tape format.

Making one copy of an unlabeled tape

This Backcopy command makes one copy of an unlabeled tape on $TAPE1. The

destination tape is labeled because the TAPE DEFINE defines it.

10> BACKCOPY $TAPE1, $TAPE2, *.*.*, LISTALL

11> BACKCOPY $TAPE1, ($TAPE2, $TAPE3), *.*.*

12> ADD DEFINE =Source ^Tape, CLASS TAPE, &

12> &LABELS BACKUP, VOLUME HD004

13> BACKCOPY =Source ^Tape, $TAPE2, *.*.*

12> ADD DEFINE =Output, CLASS TAPE, LABELS BACKUP, &

12> &VOLUME SCRATCH

13> BACKCOPY $TAPE1, =Output, *.*.*

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