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Backups on Magentic Tapes

Hi all: I want to make a magnetic tape backup of all my z/VM residents, but the tape is 3590 and I would type put all the DUMP of the volumes in the same magnetic tape, someone has some example of how to create multiple tapes within oneself. Thanks in advance. Best Regards,

More DIRMAINT help required

I have recently setup dirmaint, but obviously have not done everything correctly, since I cannot allocate new minidisks for users from MAINT. My AUTHFOR CONTROL file is as follows MAINTMAINT*140A ADGHMOPSZ MAINTMAINT*150A ADGHMOPSZ My AUTHDASD DATADVH file

Re: More DIRMAINT help required

Ian, I think your problem is in the way you defined your authorized users. The AUTHFOR CONTROL file should look something like this: ALL MAINT * 140A ADGHOPS ALL MAINT * 150A ADGHOPS ALL VSMWORK1 * 150A GOSHMADP ALL VSMWORK2 * 150A GOSHMADP ALL VSMWORK3 * 150A GOSHMADP This tells DIRMAINT that

Re: More DIRMAINT help required

Thanks Dave, I added ALL MAINT*140A ADGHMOPSZ ALL MAINT*150A ADGHMOPSZ and all is working well now, many thanks.

Re: Backups on Magentic Tapes

The easiest is making a DDR control file. Eg DUMPVM DDR A (F 80) SYSPRINT CONS OUTPUT 181 TAPE (LEAVE INPUT 123 DASD 540RES DUMP FTR ALL INPUT 124 DASD 540xxx DUMP FTR ALL etc Then attach a tape drive to MAINT as 181 and issue DDR DUMPVM DDR A P.S. my example builds on the fact that MAINT has

Re: More DIRMAINT help required

Glad to help, Ian. On 11/25/2010 09:35 AM, Ian Marshall wrote: Thanks Dave, I added ALL MAINT*140A ADGHMOPSZ ALL MAINT*150A ADGHMOPSZ and all is working well now, many thanks. -- Dave Jones V/Soft Software www.vsoft-software.com Houston, TX