Administrator's Reference

BACKUP DEVCONFIG (Create Backup Copies of Device Configuration Information)

Use the BACKUP DEVCONFIG command to specify one or more files in which to store a backup copy of the following information:

• Device class definitions created using the DEFINE DEVCLASS command
• Library definitions created using the DEFINE LIBRARY command
• Drive definitions created using the DEFINE DRIVE command

You can run this command at any time to ensure that device configuration information is available.

If your ADSM database is damaged or lost and must be restored using a database backup series or an offline salvage dump, device configuration information must be available before ADSM can restore the database.

You can also include the DEVCONFIG option in the server options file to specify one or more files in which to store a backup copy of device configuration information. When you use this option, the files specified are automatically updated whenever a device class, library, or drive is defined, updated, or deleted.

Privilege Class

To issue this command, you must have system privilege or unrestricted storage privilege.

Syntax

>>-BAckup DEVCONFig---+------------------------------------+---><
                      |            .-,-----------------.   |
                      |            V                   |   |
                      '-Filenames=-----+----------+----+---'
                                       '-filename-'
 

Parameters

Filenames

Specifies the name of the file in which to store a backup copy of device configuration information. You can specify more than one file or data set by separating each file name with a comma, with no intervening spaces. This parameter is optional.

If you do not specify a list of files, ADSM stores the information in all files specified with the DEVCONFIG option in the server options file.

Examples

Task

Store a backup copy of the device configuration information in a file named DEVICE.

Command:

backup devconfig filenames=device

Related Commands

Table 16. Commands Related to BACKUP DEFCONFIG

Command	Description
DEFINE DEVCLASS	Defines a device class that can be used for storage pools, importing, or exporting.
DEFINE DRIVE	Assigns a drive to a library.
DEFINE LIBRARY	Defines an automated or manual library.
UPDATE DEVCLASS	Changes the attributes of a device class.
UPDATE DRIVE	Changes the attributes of a drive.
UPDATE LIBRARY	Changes the attributes of a library.