HP Archive Backup System for OpenVMS Guide to Operations

Migrating from SLS/MDMS V2.X to ABS/MDMS V4.X
B.2 SLS/MDMS V2.x to ABS/MDMS V4.x Migration
Table B–9 ABS Save Request Parameter and SLS SBK Equivalent
Save Request
Parameter
SBK Equivalent
Meaning
Name SBK File name Identifies the group of backup operations to be performed.
Type of Save QUALIFIERS Determines the type of backup executed; whether
it is Full, Incremental or Selective (individual file)
backup.
Source Node NODE_n Identifies the Node where the data resides.
Include Spec
(Include Specification)
FILES_n
Identifies the data to be backed up. Multiple
include specifications can be given on a single
Save request, and each can have a different Object
Type.
Object Type BACKUP_TYPE Identifies the type of data to be backed up. ABS
supports different data types. Some of them
include OpenVMS Files, UNIX Files, and Oracle
RDB Databases.
Agent Qual.
(Agent Qualifiers)
QUALIFIERS
Allows backup agent specific qualifiers to be
added to the command that is used to take data
backup.
Since Date QUALIFIERS Determines if data objects to be backed up must be
selected based on creation/modification date.
Before Date QUALIFIERS Determines if data objects to be backed up must be
selected based on creation/modification date.
Exclude Specification QUALIFIERS Determines selected data objects to be excluded
from the backup.
Storage Class (Archive)
Name
Provides the Storage Class name into which the
data is backed up.
Environment Provides the name of the Execution Environment
that needs to be used for the backup operations.
Start Time TIME_n Indicates the time at which the Save request must
start each time it is scheduled for taking backups.
Note that an SBK can provide multiple DAYS_n
and TIME_n parameters but an ABS Save request
is restricted to a single Start Time and Interval.
Scheduling Interval
Explicit Interval
DAYS_n
DAYS_n
Identifies the repeat interval for the Save request.
ABS provides a variety of predefined simple inter
vals, such as Daily, Weekly, Monthly, as well as
several “complex” intervals, such as Weekly Full
with Daily Incremental, and log based schedules.
See the information on "Log-n Backup Schedules"
in ABS for a full description of log based schedules.
Prologue Command
Epilogue Command
PRE_PROCESS_E
ACH
POST_PROCESS_
EACH
Command that must be executed before each
backup operation within the Save request starts,
contrast to the Environment’s Prologue.
Command that must be executed after each backup
operation within the Save request completes, contrast
to the Environment’s Epilogue.
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