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

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Preparing Storage Devices

Preparation Process

However, you may choose to employ multiple device conﬁgurations at times when you have

a large set of ﬁles to store and you want to speed up the process. If so, you probably want to

use the FILE command to give each device a ﬁlename that reminds you of its position.

Then use the STORESET parameter in a STORE command to reference the multiple devices.

For example, to store ﬁles to three sequential devices, use the following set of commands:

:FILE SEQ1;DEV=7

:FILE SEQ2;DEV=8

:FILE SEQ3;DEV=9

:STORE @.@.@;;STORESET=(*SEQ1,*SEQ2,*SEQ3)

The above STORE command copies all system and user ﬁles to three sequential devices. The

parentheses surrounding backreferenced ﬁle names group the devices into a device pool.

NOTE

You do not backreference the ﬁlename of a backup device immediately after

the name(s) of the ﬁle(s) you are storing when you use the STORESET

parameter. Rather, you must use a placeholder for the missing parameter

normally supplied when using a single backup device. The placeholder is

provided by the use of ;; in the STORE command.

If you gave the backup devices a single ﬁlename such as:

:FILE T;DEV=TAPE

enter the following STORE command to copy ﬁles to a set of four sequential backup devices:

:STORE @.@.@;;STORESET=(*T,*T,*T,*T)

To store ﬁles to a set of four parallel devices, you might use the following set of commands:

:FILE PARA;DEV=7

:FILE PARB;DEV=8

:FILE PARC;DEV=9

:FILE PARD;DEV=11

:STORE @.OPERATOR.SYS;;&

:STORESET=(*PARA),(*PARB),(*PARC),(*PARD)

If you gave the backup devices a single ﬁlename such as:

:FILE T;DEV=TAPE

enter the following STORE command to copy ﬁles to a set of four parallel backup devices:

:STORE @.@.@;;STORESET=(*T),(*T),(*T),(*T)

You describe parallel devices in the STORESET parameter by enclosing each backreferenced

device ﬁlename within parentheses. Use commas to separate devices.

To store ﬁles to parallel device pools, use parentheses to group the devices into pools.

Separate the devices in the pool from one another with commas. Commas also separate

each device pool. For example, the following commands copy ﬁles to two parallel device

pools. Each device pool contains two sequential devices.