HP 3000 Manuals

AutoRestart/iX User's Guide

Protecting Critical Data 

Use caution any time that you use your tape device to restore information
to your system, to avoid loss of critical data if a system abort occurs
during the restore process.  The tape device can remain online, and
AutoRestart/iX dumps to that tape if dump-to-disk is unsuccessful.  Be
sure to remove the write ring from any tape that you try to restore.

If a system abort occurs during a backup, AutoRestart/iX can write dump
information to the write-enabled backup tape currently mounted on the
tape drive.  If this occurs, you will not have complete backup
information.  Be sure that you perform a second backup as soon as
possible.


CAUTION  Critical information stored on a tape mounted on your system's
         tape device can be lost if the tape is write-enabled when a
         system abort occurs.

MPE/iX 5.0 Documentation