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You must not get many customer conversions from other software backup
companies. If a restore is
needed from an archive tape (performed on a previous vendor's software) for
an application, seldom if ever
would a single file be restored.
At 02:44 PM 1/20/2005, you wrote:
>Just a quick note of clarification. Dr.D will list a Faver2 backup with
>its LTAPE function. It will also restore both VSAM and non-VSAM data using
>the individual file restore options (RESTORE=VSAM and RESTORE=DATA).
>Because the support already exists for these functions and because the use
>of other backup tapes (e.g. Faver2, Maxback, etc.) as input to Dr.D is not
>done often, if ever, we haven't put that functionality into the LOGICAL
>functions.
>
>Keith Johnson
>CSI Internation
>kjohnson@e-vse.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>From: owner-vse-l@Lehigh.EDU [mailto:owner-vse-l@Lehigh.EDU] On Behalf Of
>Kevin Corkery
>Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 9:39 AM
>To: VSE Discussion List
>Subject: Re: Using Dr. D to restore Faver2 tapes
>
>Short of running a FAVER "MAP" command in advance on each tape I would
>think you'd might be able to get the DRD folks to at least provide the
>functionality via it's LTAPE command to list the tapes contents. If they
>use your restore selector command can identify the object on the tape then
>they can identify object delimiters for listing of the contents. Of
>course, you could also write your own routine to list the tape contents.
>
>--
>Kevin Corkery
>Independent Consultant
>Voorhees, New Jersey
>
>-------------- Original message --------------
>
> > I work at a data center that is considering switching to Dr. D from
> > Faver2. We are very interested in Dr. D's capabilities for future
> > restores of our old Faver2 archive tapes. Unfortunately, the newest
> > Dr. D user's guide (6.7) excludes 'RESTORE=LOGICAL - VSAM' from the
> > list of valid operations on "foreign" tapes. As far as I can tell,
> > this makes it impossible to restore multiple files at once or use
> > wild-cards to select the file(s) to restore from the tape. Is my
> > thinking correct? If not, can I ask how these operations would be
> > done? And, if so, does anyone have a clever work-around for
> > (relatively) easily restoring some subset of files from a Faver2 tape
> > containing hundreds of files? In the worst case, these kinds of
> > restores shoul! d be fairly rare; so, we could just manually create the
> > operations for each individual file we want, but it would be great to
> > find another solution.
> >
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You must not get many customer conversions from other software backup
companies. If a restore is
needed from an archive tape (performed on a previous vendor's software)
for an application, seldom if ever
would a single file be restored.
At 02:44 PM 1/20/2005, you wrote:
Just
a quick note of clarification. Dr.D will list a Faver2 backup with its
LTAPE function. It will also restore both VSAM and non-VSAM data using
the individual file restore options (RESTORE=VSAM and RESTORE=DATA).
Because the support already exists for these functions and because the
use of other backup tapes (e.g. Faver2, Maxback, etc.) as input to Dr.D
is not done often, if ever, we haven't put that functionality into the
LOGICAL functions.
Keith Johnson
CSI Internation
kjohnson@e-vse.com
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-vse-l@Lehigh.EDU
[mailto:owner-vse-l@Lehigh.EDU]
On Behalf Of Kevin Corkery
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 9:39 AM
To: VSE Discussion List
Subject: Re: Using Dr. D to restore Faver2 tapes
- Short of running a FAVER "MAP" command in advance on each
tape I would think you'd might be able to get the DRD folks to at least
provide the functionality via it's LTAPE command to list the tapes
contents. If they use your restore selector command can identify
the object on the tape then they can identify object delimiters for
listing of the contents. Of course, you could also write your own
routine to list the tape contents.
-
- --
- Kevin Corkery
- Independent Consultant
- Voorhees, New Jersey
-
- -------------- Original message --------------
- > I work at a data center that is considering switching to Dr. D
from
- > Faver2. We are very interested in Dr. D's capabilities for
future
- > restores of our old Faver2 archive tapes. Unfortunately, the
newest
- > Dr. D user's guide (6.7) excludes 'RESTORE=LOGICAL - VSAM' from
the
- > list of valid operations on "foreign" tapes. As far as
I can tell,
- > this makes it impossible to restore multiple files at once or
use
- > wild-cards to select the file(s) to restore from the tape. Is my
- > thinking correct? If not, can I ask how these operations would
be
- > done? And, if so, does anyone have a clever work-around for
- > (relatively) easily restoring some subset of files from a Faver2
tape
- > containing hundreds of files? In the worst case, these kinds of
- > restores shoul! d be fairly rare; so, we could just manually
create the
- > operations for each individual file we want, but it would be
great to
- > find another solution.
- >
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