>Can any one tell me the best way or what commands to use to dump the reader
> and print spool queues to tape?
To dump all of the files on each of the reader, print and punch queues:
SPXTAPE DUMP vdev RDR ALL
SPXTAPE DUMP vdev PRT ALL
SPXTAPE DUMP vdev PUN ALL
You can also dump all of these with a single command:
SPXTAPE DUMP vdev STD ALL
vdev is the virtual address of the tape drive attached to the virtual
machine. You can also specify multiple tape drives as a range of
vdev-vdev.
If you are backing up your spool volumes, be sure to also dump all of
your NSS, DCSS, and other "system data files" which also reside in
spool space:
SPXTAPE DUMP vdev NSS ALL
etc., or
SPXTAPE DUMP vdev SDF ALL
to dump all types of system data files.
There are many other variations of these commands. See the
CP Command and Utilities Reference for more details.
John Franciscovich
z/VM Development
