RE: Using Dr. D to restore Faver2 tapes

Kevin P Corkery
Independent Consultant
Voorhees, =
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Jersey

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Keith Johnson
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Subject: RE: Using Dr. =
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restore Faver2 tapes

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a quick note of clarification. Dr.D will list a Faver2 backup with its =
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function. It will also restore both VSAM and non-VSAM data using =
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individual file restore options (RESTORE=3DVSAM and RESTORE=3DDATA). =
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the support already exists for these functions and because =
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of other backup tapes (e.g. Faver2, Maxback, etc.) as input to Dr.D is =
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done often, if ever, we haven't put that functionality into the =
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functions. 

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Corkery
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Short of running a FAVER "MAP" command in advance on each tape =
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think you'd might be able to get the DRD folks to at least provide =
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functionality via it's LTAPE command to list the tapes =
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If they use your restore selector command can identify the object on =
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tape then they can identify object delimiters for listing of =
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contents.  Of course, you could also write your own routine to =
list the=20
tape contents.

 

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Kevin Corkery =

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Consultant
Voorhees, New Jersey

 

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> I work at a data =
center that=20
is considering switching to Dr. D from
> Faver2. We are =
very=20
interested in Dr. D's capabilities for future
> restores of =
our old=20
Faver2 archive tapes. Unfortunately, the newest
> Dr. D =
user's=20
guide (6.7) excludes 'RESTORE=3DLOGICAL - VSAM' from the
> =
list of=20
valid operations on "foreign" tapes. As far as I can tell, =

> this=20
makes it impossible to restore multiple files at once or use =

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wild-cards to select the file(s) to restore from the tape. Is my =

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thinking correct? If not, can I ask how these operations would be =

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done? And, if so, does anyone have a clever work-around for =

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(relatively) easily restoring some subset of files from a Faver2 =
tape=20

> containing hundreds of files? In the worst case, these =
kinds of=20

> restores shoul! d be fairly rare; so, we could just =
manually=20
create the
> operations for each individual file we want, =
but it=20
would be great to
> find another solution.
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