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Backing Up an AutoRestart/iX System [ AutoRestart/iX User's Guide ] MPE/iX 5.0 Documentation


AutoRestart/iX User's Guide

Backing Up an AutoRestart/iX System 

You may not want to include dump files in your normal system backup
procedures.  AutoRestart/iX dump files are normally hundreds of megabytes
in size, the total size of dump files can exceed a gigabyte of disk
space, when you have more than one dump file on a large system.

To ensure that dump files are not included in system backup, modify your
system backup commands to exclude all dump files in DISKDUMP.TELESUP. The
following example shows a STORE command that stores all system files
except dump files.

     :FILE T;DEV=TAPE 
     :STORE @.@.SYS,@.@.@-@.@.SYS-@.DISKDUMP.TELESUP;*T;SHOW=OFFLINE 

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.



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