I would like to DDR DUMP to standard label (3480-XF) tapes.
For reasons I won't go into here, I plan to "manually" define the
extents to be dumped to each tape, so DDR's multi-volume tape handling
is not an issue.
So is there any more to it than writing a VOL1 hdr, starting at the load
point, then doing the DDR dump with a SKIP 1 on OUTPUT?
For example, in a CMS environment, would this be correct ?
1) Write a VOL1 label to the tape
TAPE WVOL1 volser userid (XF
TAPE WTM 2
2) Boot a Standalone DDR
3) Mount the tape labeled in Step 1
4) DDR dump:
INPUT nnnn 3390 volser
OUTPUT mmmm 3480 (SKIP 1 MODE XF
SYSPRINT CONS
DUMP start-cyl TO end-cyl
Is the WTM needed after the WVOL1 to mark the end-of-tape?
Does writing a VOL1 header w/o HDR1 cause any problems?
Is it really this straightforward?
Any gotchas I should be aware of (other than multi-tape DDR dumps, which
as I said, won't be an issue in my case)?
