Gehan wrote:

>  I'm in a bind. If anyone can help it would be much appreciated..
>  Friday night I had an update tape to run. I had a premonition
> so before I started I ran a backup with these options.
>
> !FILE T;DEV=12
> !STORE @[log in to unmask]@;*T;ONVS=MPEXL_SYSTEM_VOLUME_SET;&
> !DIRECTORY;SHOW;ONLINE=START;COMPRESS=HIGH;&
> !INTER;PROGRESS=15
>
>  The back up ran fine, the update tape crashed.

What do you mean by an "update tape", and what do you mean when you say it
"crashed"? If you were updating the OS and it "crashed" somehow, you
probably have a bigger problem than just restoring files. The System
Software Maintenance Manual knows all - but then you apparently were not
following it Friday night since you do not mention creating an SLT and you
apparently did not delete spool files as it would have instructed.

> The problem is
> that the update tape created some files, changed some files, and
> deleted some files through several accounts. I know the backup
> is a good copy of our system before anything got changed.
>
>  What options do I use to restore from my tape saying "if it's
> on the tape restore it, if it's on the system but not on the
> tape then delete it". That should make our system and the backup
> tape an exact copy of each other....
>

While it would be possible for the backup vendors, including HP, to create
such an option, I'm not aware that any has. Your only "automatic" way would
be to do an install from your latest SLT (verify it is good first) and then
a restore - very painful process to remove a few extra files.

>  Also when I do a restore I notice the spoolf files get
> re-created with a new job number. There is two files for each
> restored...
>
> LPLASER  #O8803     #J3091 P5121502 READY       3120    D 8   1
> LPLASER  #O8803     #J'3091 P5121502 READY       3120    D 8   1
>
>

Gee, I hope there is a mistake somewhere in the above since it should be
impossible to have two spoolfiles reported with the same ID. The second one
in your list (the one "restored") should have a new and different ID.
Actually, this is one of the nice features of MPE/iX, that a "store" of
@[log in to unmask]@ does in fact restore all spoolfiles.

>  Are there any other files that get "re-created". I'm wondering
> because we're low on disc space and I don't want to make any new
> un-necessary files. If it's only the spoolfiles that do that
> then I can just do a [log in to unmask] and not update that
> directory. Right?

Correct.

> I hope I'm not recreating a dupe of every file
> on our system...
>

Nope.

John

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