Backing Up and Restoring Disk Information
Guardian User’s Guide—425266-001
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Using Run Options in a Backup Command
MULTIDRIVE Lets up to four tape drives be queued for unlabeled-tape backup
operations
NOMYID Disallows the Restore MYID option
NOPROMPT Instructs Backup not to prompt the user before beginning to write on
each tape, but to begin when it detects the tape drive is ready
NOSAFEGUARD Excludes Safeguard information from the back up tape
NOSQLDATA Makes Backup skip data transfer for all SQL files in the file set
NOT Specifies files that are not to be backed up
NOUNLOAD Means that the final tape is rewound and left online (rather than
offline) when the back up finishes
OPEN Backs up open files (however, if a file is open for write access, the
backup of the file might not be usable when restored)
PAGELENGTH Lets users specify between 20 and 100 lines per page to be displayed
on a utility listing (default value is 60)
PART Renames a secondary partition in a partitioned file
PARTIAL Backs up only files modified since a specified date
PARTONLY If ON, lets parts of a file be backed up without backing up all of the
files’ partitions, based on selection criteria; if OFF, backs up an entire
partitioned file
REMOTEIOSIZE Specifies the maximum size of each data block transfered between
systems
SCRATCHVOL Selects an alternate disk volume for the temporary files that Backup
creates during a file conversion
SHAREOPEN Causes backup files to be opened with shared-read access instead of
read/write access
SQLCATALOGS Lets you back up SQL catalog tables
START Selects a starting point in the file-set list for back up
TAPEMODE Specifies the tape recording mode for streaming tape units
VERIFYREEL Validates each file on the tape after the reel is completed; This
includes checking tape-record sequence numbers, and reading the
volume labels, file labels, data records, and checksums
VOL Gives new volume and subvolume names for files on tape
VOLUMEMODE Performs volume-mode back up (restricted to super ID 255,255)
Table 11-2. Backup Command Options (page 2 of 2)
Option Function
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