At 08:57 AM 1999-06-15 -0700, Ross Warner wrote:
>>From a Beginner-
>
>We have a 927LX, recently upgraded to MPE/iX 6.0 from 5.5 pp3.
>Our shop runs a single application. With those files, Adager, the OS and a
>private directory of mine for learning, that is about the sum of the drives.
>Our LDEV 1 (1.3gig) was indicating that it was running very low of space,
>LDEV 2 (1.3gig) is marginal, or so I am told.
>Given this we had another drive added - LDEV 3 (2 gig), before the OS
>upgrade by the way.
>All three drives are in the same primary system volume set.
>I have been told that from now on, any files created or added to the system
>will automatically write to LDEV 3.
That will generally be the case, until the space remaining on a drive other
than ldev 3 is the greatest.
>My current objective is to free some space on LDEV 1 by removing my private
>directory from LDEV 1 and restoring it to LDEV 3. A consultant says this
>will help, an HP CE says it might, (Will it?), either way I will have
>learned a great deal more.
It will help by exactly how much of your private directory's files
currently exist on ldev 1. Those that did reside on ldev 1 will no longer
reside there after the restore.
>
>I STOREd @[log in to unmask] to tape with the DIRECTORY parameter.
>STORE @[log in to unmask];*T;SHOW=OFFLINE,LONG,DATES,SECURITY;DIRECTORY
>
>In STOREing to tape I see that 193 HFS Directories were stored to tape.
>(Admittedly, I do not completely understand what HFS is as yet, or even if
>these directories are used at all by our system.)
>
>The RESTORE command I intend to issue:
>RESTORE *T;@[log in to unmask];DEV=3
>
>My Questions:
>1. Should I have omitted the DIRECTORY parm from the STORE command?
It doesn't matter, since you are not (and should not) use the ;directory
option in the restore.
>2. Will RESTORE create, write or move the HFS Directories to LDEV 3?
No.
>The following is from the STORE Products Manual,
>
>"All HFS directories, and directories from any other volume sets that were
>stored, are also restored when DIRECTORY is specified."
>
>3. Will the RESTORE remove or delete the files and directories in ROSSACCT
>on LDEV 1 by RESTOREing them to LDEV 3? Or would I have necessarily needed
>to use a PURGE parameter in the STOREing? And how would that have affected
>the HFS Directories?
>
As long as you did not use the ;keep option of the restore command, your
files will be restored to ldev 3. If your ROSSACCT included HFS
directories, they too will be moved to ldev 3. Otherwise, no HFS
directories will move.
Incidentally, I would add the ;create;show=offline options to your restore
command. The ;create option would result in possible users and
accounts/groups being created if the file creator of any file restored did
not exist on your system. The ;show=offline will give you a hard copy of
the restore results, as well as a hard copy of those users, accounts, and
groups that were superfluously re-created by the restore command -
structures that should be purged.
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