HP Archive Backup System for OpenVMS Guide to Operations

Saving and Restoring Data
3.4 Environments
3.4 Environments
3.4.1 Environment Name
3.4.2 Action
Create a new catalog called COPIED_TAPES. Create an archive called COPIED_ARCH, which
points to the catalog COPIED_TAPES.
Create a save request specifying TAP000:* for the include specification and give it a data_type
of VMS_SAVESET.
ABS will execute the request, cataloging the information into the COPIED_TAPES catalog.
To restore the data which is on ABS000 or TAP000, decide which copy you wish to restore and
specify the appropriate archive or catalog on the restore request. For example, to restore from the
original tapes, specify the SYSTEM_BACKUPS archive. To restore from the copy, specify the
COPIED_ARCH archive. The MDMS SHOW CATALOG/FILES command with the /FULL
qualifier will show the volumes used for the data.
Note
If the information about the original and copied savesets is put into the same catalog,
they will have exactly the same archived data. This could cause confusion when restoring
the data because ABS may not choose the tapes you wish to use for the restore. To
make it easier to restore, it is recommended to use a separate catalog (as described
above).
An environment describes the criteria under which save and restore requests execute, and
exactly one environment must be associated with each save and restore request. You can use a
single environment for many different saves and restores by simply referencing the environment
in the save and restore request. ABS defines five environments by default, which you can use in
your save and restore requests as needed:
• SYSTEM_BACKUPS_ENV - For system backups that are normally performed by a system
administrator at regularly scheduled times
• USER_BACKUPS_ENV - For backups performed by a non-privileged user to save or
restore his or her own data
• UNIX_BACKUPS_ENV - For backups of UNIX client data, normally performed by a system
administrator
• DISASTER_RECOVERY_ENV - For backups primarily designated for disaster recovery
• DEFAULT_ENV - Used by default in the event one of the other default environments have
been deleted
Although these default environments are provided by ABS, you may modify them as needed to
suit your site’s operational needs. Alternatively, you can create your own environments and
manipulate the attributes as described in the following sections.
This name is used to reference the environment in save and restore requests. There are no
required conventions for environment names, but ABS uses an ad-hoc convention that pairs
environments and archives. If you specify an archive of name FOO, then by convention there
should be a matching environment named FOO_ENV. You can choose to follow or ignore this
convention for your site.
The action attribute specifies one of three possible actions to be performed on files saved using
this environment. Specify one of the following three actions:
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