Appendix C Transferring Optical STORE Backups onto Standard Tapes

STORCOPY is a utility that allows you to transfer optical STORE backups onto standard tape backup, a less expensive backup medium. STORCOPY copies backups on magneto-optical devices to any other STORE backup media except magneto-optical.

The STORCOPY program resides in PUB.SYS. It can be used by users with OP and SM capability by entering either of the following commands from the MPE/iX prompt:

   :STORCOPY option Return

or

   :STORCOPY Return

	NOTE: If you enter STORCOPY where no "option" parameters are specified, as in the second example, the "STORCOPY:" prompt appears. Acceptable responses to this prompt are a complete STORCOPY command line (see the following examples).

In the following example, a backup called MOBACK is copied to a single output device on LDEV 8. No listing is produced. MOBACK may have been created with the STORESET option, and thus may contain more than one set. STORCOPY will copy these sets one at a time to the output device until all the sets have been copied.

   :STORCOPY COPYTOSET=(8);NAME=MOBACK Return

or

   :STORCOPY Return



   :STORCOPY:storcopy copytoset=(8);name=moback Return

The next example shows a backup called MOBACK is copied to a single output device defined by the file equation DDSTAPE to a DDS drive. A listing will be produced and sent to $STDLIST and the line printer.

:FILE DDSTAPE;DEV=DDS Return

:FILE SYSLIST;DEV=LP Return

:STORCOPY 

COPYTOSET=(*DDSTAPE);NAME=MOBACK;SHOW=OFFLINE Return

or

:STORCOPY Return



:STORCOPY:FILE DDSTAPE;DEV=DDS Return

:STORCOPY:FILE SYSLIST;DEV=LP Return

:STORCOPY:STORCOPY 

COPYTOSET=(*DDSTAPE);NAME=MOBACK;SHOW=OFFLINE Return

In the following example, a backup called MOBACK, which has five sets, is copied to three output devices. Two of the output devices are DDS drives on LDEV 7 and LDEV 8. The other output device is defined by file equation DDSTAPE. A SECURITY and LONG listing is produced and sent to $STDLIST and a new file called MOLIST via the file equation SYSLIST.

Since MOBACK consists of five sets and only three output devices, STORCOPY will copy the first three sets to output and will produce the other two sets as the output devices become available.

:FILE DDSTAPE;DEV=DDS Return

:FILE SYSLIST=MOLIST,NEW;SAVE Return

:STORCOPY COPYTOSET=(7),(8),(*DDSTAPE);NAME=MOBACK; & Return

:SHOW=SECURITY,OFFLINE Return

or

:STORCOPY Return



:STORCOPY:FILE DDSTAPE;DEV=DDS Return

:STORCOPY:FILE SYSLIST=MOLIST,NEW;SAVE Return

:STORCOPY:STORCOPY COPYTOSET=(7),(8),(*DDSTAPE);NAME=MOBACK; Return

:SHOW=SECURITY,OFFLINE Return

	NOTE: Parenthesis ( ) enclosed in quotation marks must be entered as part of the command line syntax. COMMAND ''(parameter)''