About This Manual; Audience; Organization - HP BACKCOPY Reference Manual

About This Manual

This manual describes how to use these disk and tape utilities for the NonStop operating system:
BACKCOPY
BACKUP (T9074)
Disk Compression (DCOM)
The G06 product version of the utilities cannot be executed on G-series preceding the G06.00
RVU. The D46 product version of the utilities cannot be executed on D-series preceding the D46.00
RVU.

Audience

This manual is written for system operators, system managers, and all other users of the disk and
tape utilities. You should be familiar with:
The user interface for the NonStop operating system
The user interface for the HP Tandem Advanced Command Language (TACL) command
interpreter
Basic NonStop system operations

Organization

Section/Appendix
Chapter 1: Disk and Tape Utilities Overview
Chapter 2: BACKCOPY
Chapter 3: BACKUP
Chapter 4: Disk Compression (DCOM)
Chapter 5: Disk Space Analysis Program (DSAP)
Chapter 6: PAK/UNPAK
Chapter 7: RESTORE
Appendix A: BACKCOPY, BACKUP, and RESTORE
Messages
Appendix B: DCOM/DSAP Messages
Appendix C: PAK/UNPAK Messages
Appendix D: Syntax Summaries
Appendix E: CLASS TAPE DEFINEs
Appendix F: Tape Label Formats
Disk Space Analysis Program (DSAP)
PAK/UNPAK
RESTORE
Description
Introduces each of the disk and tape utilities and provides general
information about mounting tapes, tape formats, and entering
BACKUP and RESTORE commands
Describes BACKCOPY, a utility that duplicates backup tapes
Describes BACKUP, a utility that backs up disk files to tape
Describes Disk Compression (DCOM), a utility that compresses
disks (by moving extents) to save disk space
Describes the Disk Space Analysis Program (DSAP), a utility that
analyzes how disk space is being used on a specific volume
Describes PAK and UNPAK, a pair of utilities used to compress
and decompress files on a NonStop system
Describes RESTORE, a utility that restores tapes to disk
Describes the messages returned by the BACKCOPY, BACKUP,
and RESTORE utilities
Describes the messages returned by the DCOM and DSAP utilities
Describes the messages returned by the PAK and UNPAK utilities
Is a syntax summary for all of the disk and tape utilities
Describes the attributes of the CLASS TAPE DEFINEs that relate
to the disk and tape utilities
Shows ANSI and IBM tape label format standards
Audience 19