Re: Using Dr. D to restore Faver2 tapes

Short of running a FAVER "MAP" command in advance on each tape I =
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think you'd might be able to get the DRD folks to at least provide the =

functionality via it's LTAPE command to list the tapes =
contents.  If=20
they use your restore selector command can identify the object on the =
tape=20
then they can identify object delimiters for listing of the=20
contents.  Of course, you could also write your own routine to =
list the=20
tape contents.

 

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Kevin Corkery =

Independent=20
Consultant
Voorhees, New Jersey

 

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> I work at a data center =
that is=20
considering switching to Dr. D from
> Faver2. We are very =
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in Dr. D's capabilities for future
> restores of our old =
Faver2=20
archive tapes. Unfortunately, the newest
> Dr. D user's guide =
(6.7)=20
excludes 'RESTORE=3DLOGICAL - VSAM' from the
> list of valid =
operations=20
on "foreign" tapes. As far as I can tell,
> this makes it =
impossible=20
to restore multiple files at once or use
> wild-cards to =
select the=20
file(s) to restore from the tape. Is my
> thinking correct? =
If not,=20
can I ask how these operations would be
> done? And, if so, =
does=20
anyone have a clever work-around for
> (relatively) easily =
restoring=20
some subset of files from a Faver2 tape
> containing hundreds =
of=20
files? In the worst case, these kinds of
> restores shoul! d =
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fairly rare; so, we could just manually create the
> =
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each individual file we want, but it would be great to
> find =
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solution.
>