HP Archive Backup System for OpenVMS Guide to Operations

Saving and Restoring Data
3.6 Selections
Although ABS passes information that you specify in the save, restore and environment to the
backup agent, you can pass qualifiers directly to the backup agent using the agent qualifiers
attribute. Refer to the appropriate backup agent documentation for information on these qualifiers.
3.6.2 Before Date, Since Date and Date Type (Saves Only)
For save requests, you can select files for saving based on the date files were last modified. You
can specify either or both of the following:
• Before Date - Any version of the file modified before the specified date
• Since Date - Any version of the file modified after the specified date
If you specify both a before and since date, you are providing a range of dates in which to select
files. If a file does not have a revision date (modified date), then ABS uses the creation date
instead.
ABS does not yet support the date type attribute, which would allow you to select any one of the
four online dates maintained by OpenVMS.
3.6.3 Conflict Options (Restore Only)
When restoring files, you may find that there are files of the same name already located in the
destination directory or original source location. You can specify what ABS should do if it
encounters this situation by specifying one of the following conflict options:
• NEW VERSION - Restores the data and header and creates a new version of the file - applicable
to VMS files only.
• OVERLAY VERSION - Overwrites the online version with the archive version of the data,
but keeps the online version of the header.
• REPLACE VERSION - Deletes the online version of the file, and restores both the header
and data from the archive.
• RETAIN VERSION - Keeps the online version of the header and data and does not restore
the file from the archive.
If not specified, the default is RETAIN VERSION.
3.6.4 Include, Exclude, Data Type and Source Node
In exactly the same manner as in save and restore requests, you can specify the following
attributes in selection objects directly:
• INCLUDE - A list of disks, files, paths or databases to include in the save or restore. If you
want the file directory structure to be maintained during the restore operation, see the note
given in Section 3.5.6 “Include, Exclude, Data Type and Source Node” .
• EXCLUDE - A list of files to exclude from the save or restore that would otherwise have
been included according to the include specification. This option applies to data type VMS
FILES only
• DATA TYPE - The type of data to be saved or restored - select one of the following:
– VMS Files - Applicable to VMS files. If only a disk is selected, a FULL backup of the
entire disk is performed. If directory and file specifications are specified, then a
SELECTIVE backup of files is performed.
– Oracle Rdb Database Options - These options (which are version-number specific)
specify that you wish to back up an entire Rdb database using the RMU backup utility.
In this case, specify the name of the Rdb database files.
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