STORE and TurboSTORE/iX Products Manual (B5151-90003)

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Storing Files

Specifying Files in a STORE Command

STORE /SYS/PUB/MYFILE;;SHOW

For more information regarding symbolic links and device links, see the article "Symbolic

Links on MPE/iX" in Chapter 5 of the Communicator 3000 MPE/iX General Release 5.0

(Core Software Release C.50.00).

Storing Database Files

Storing TurboIMAGE Databases

Prior to MPE/iX Release 5.5, the only way to logically back up databases was by using the

DBSTORE and DBRESTOR commands. However, the DBSTORE program only allowed certain

STORE options, and could only store or restore one database at a time. The features of

DBSTORE are now available when using STORE, TurboSTORE/iX II or TurboSTORE 7x24

True-Online Backup.

To specify a complete database to be stored, only the root ﬁlename needs to be speciﬁed.

(By default, STORE does not allow you to specify an incomplete TurboIMAGE database to

be stored when you use the 7x24 true-online backup option ONLINE=START or

ONLILNE=END.) When STORE encounters a database root ﬁle, it will use the database to

determine what other ﬁles are part of the database. Third-party indexing ﬁles will also be

included in this list, if available.

If a wildcard that includes an entire database is speciﬁed, TurboSTORE/iX will still verify

the ﬁle list with the database to ensure that all database ﬁles are being written to the

backup.

If database dataset ﬁles are speciﬁed for a backup, but their root ﬁle is not speciﬁed, those

dataset ﬁles will not be stored. For each ﬁle speciﬁed, the following warning will be

displayed:

MUSIC03.MUSIC.MYDB NOT STORED: FILE IS PART OF AN IMAGE

DATABASE AND ROOT IS NOT SPECIFIED.

If any of the dataset ﬁles are speciﬁed in addition to the root ﬁle, no warning will be

displayed but the individual dataset ﬁles will be counted as redundantly speciﬁed ﬁles.

If you are using the TurboSTORE/iX 7x24 true-online backup ONLINE option, then all

TurboIMAGE databases fully speciﬁed, either by wildcards or by specifying the root ﬁle,

are quiesced at the online backup sync point. If you want to back up part of an IMAGE

database, you can specify the PARTIALDB option. For more information on PARTIALDB and

storing databases with 7x24 true-online backup, see "Storing Database Files Using

PARTIALDB or FULLDB" in Chapter 6, "STORE and TurboSTORE Command Options."

CAUTION

If some of the dataset ﬁles are missing from the database, the quiesce may

not succeed. STORE will still back up the dataset ﬁles listed in the ﬁleset list.

Storing ALLBASE/SQL Databases

A similar convention exists for ALLBASE/SQL databases. Only the DBE ﬁle for an

ALLBASE/SQL database needs to be speciﬁed. STORE will query the database to get the

complete list of ﬁles to be stored.