All excellent points and great checklist for re-install.

However, one slight nitpick:

I would replace steps 14 thru 17 with:

        :hello manager.sys;hipri
        :startspool lp
        :file t;dev=tape
        :restore *t;;directory;show
        :restore *t;/;olddate;keep;show=offline;create

Your account structure and udc environment will be restored upon
completion. buldacct is not necessary - unless your directory on tape was
somehow damaged - but of course you have that available as a backup
procedure is necessary.

I want to emphasize the ;olddate;keep;show=offline;create options of the
above restore.

The ;olddate will prevent all file modification dates from being changed to
today, which will cause your next partial backup to become a full and will
essentially upset any future file management activities based on
date-last-accessed.

The ;keep option will prevent ldev1-located files from being placed
elsewhere - besides there is no need to re-restore files already in place.

The ;show=offline option will give you a hardcopy of the restore output -
almost always useful - but most useful, I find, after you have omitted this
option :-)

The ;create option may create new users on your system but will ensure that
ALL files from you backup are restored. Of course, the extra users created
should be then deleted - and the listing of these users is included in the
listed resulting from the ;store=offline option.




At 09:36 PM 97/06/19 P, Steve Dirickson wrote:
>It's fairly straightforward:
>
>1) Run :SYSGEN and update the ID= values of the disks to the new values
>2) Run BULDACCT.PUB.SYS with the '@' parameter. If you're not familiar
>with BULDACCT, just run it interactively and use the '%HELP' command to
>have it tell you about itself
>3) Turn off UDCs for MANAGER.SYS that might cause problems on a restart
>4) Make an SLT
>5) Make another SLT
>6) Verify at least one of the SLTs with CHECKSLT.MPEXL.TELESUP
>7) Make a full system backup; i.e. :STORE /;*T;DIRECTORY (or @[log in to unmask]@ if you
>prefer)
>8) Make another full system backup
>9) :VSTORE one or both of the backups
>
>Note that you can combine the SLT with the full system backup if you use
>the STORE= option of the :SYSGEN 'TAPE' command with an indirect file
>containing a line like
> /;DIRECTORY[;SHOW;PROGRESS;whatever other options you like]
>
>10) Shut down the system
>11) Swap the drives. Make sure that the SCSI IDs of the new drives are
>set to match those of the drives they are replacing.
>12) Start the system
>13) ISL>INSTALL from the SLT
>14) :RESTORE BULDJOB1.PUB.SYS
>15) :STREAM BULDJOB1 to regenerate your account structure and users
>16) :RESTORE / (or @[log in to unmask]@);OLDDATE to get all your files back
>17) :STREAM BULDJOB2 to re-attach your UDCs



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