MEDIA contents reports are reports that provide information about the contents of media in the MEDIA database. The Contents reports... menu selection is used to produce a wide variety of contents reports that can be printed to a printer or file or output to the screen in a window. Reports can be customized to include certain data or produced using the default data.

In order to produce contents reports, select Contents reports... from the Utilities menu.

The top section of the dialog box is used to set the selection settings for the report. The data entered into each field in this form can be used as a selection filter to control which media are to be displayed in the reports. The fields may be filled in as follows:

Field	Description
Username	The username associated with the media.
External	External id. of the media to be included in the report.
Files	Files to be included in the report.
Media	Media to be included in the report.

The middle section of the dialog box are the Execution controls for the report. This is where you designate how the report is to be displayed or printed, how wide the report will be and the submit and print controls. The Execution mode may be selected from the drop down menu as described in Table 4-12.

The File for output is the file the report will be output to if the execution mode designates that the report is output to a file. The Output columns radio buttons are used to designate whether the report will have 80 or 132 columns.

The [Submit...] button allows the user to set the parameters used when submitting a report. The fields in the Submit parameters dialog box are explained in Table 4-13.

The [Print...] button allows the user to set the parameters used when printing a report. The fields in the Print parameters dialog box are explained in Table 4-1.

The bottom section of the dialog box is used to select the report to be submitted. The report list may also be edited by left-clicking on the [Edit list...] button.

The report definition may be edited by left-clicking on the [Edit...] button. When all options are set correctly, left-click on the [Generate] button to submit and output the report.

4.6.6 Other reports...

The Other reports... selection is used to create reports that have customized selection settings which were set up in the Other reports... section of the Control menu. See Section 4.3.5 for instructions on setting up these selection settings.

The middle section of the dialog box are the Execution controls for the report. This is where you designate how the report is to be displayed or printed, how wide the report will be and the submit and print controls. The Execution mode may be selected from the drop down menu as described in Table 4-12.

The File for output is the file the report will be output to. The execution mode designates whether the report is output to a file. The Output columns radio buttons are used to designate whether the report will have 80 or 132 columns.

The [Submit...] button allows the user to set the parameters used when submitting a report. The fields in the Submit parameters dialog box are explained in Table 4-13.

The [Print...] button allows the user to set the parameters used when printing a report. The fields in the Print parameters dialog box are explained in Table 4-1.

The bottom section of the dialog box is used to select the report to be submitted. The report list may also be edited by left-clicking on the [Edit list...] button.

The report definition may be edited by left-clicking on the [Edit...] button. When all options are set correctly, left-click on the [Generate] button to submit and output the report.

4.7 Help menu

Help may be obtained in several ways throughout the program. These are:

• Pressing the [Help] key on your keyboard while in a form field or dialog box provides context sensitive help on that field or form.
• Selecting the [Help] button on the bottom of forms provides help on that particular dialog box.
• Selecting the Help menu from any of the five interfaces:
  • Media Manager
  • Backup Manager
  • Restore Via Vault
  • Restore Via Search
  • Restore entire disk

The Help menu provides two types of help. The first type is the help overview. This gives information on many aspects of the program from MEDIA fundamentals to the MOTIF interface. The other type of help is the description of menu items.

4.7.1 Overview...

In order to get an overview of the program, select Overview... from the Help menu. The help module shown below will appear.

Figure 4-12 Help Overview

In order to get help on the menus throughout the program, select Top Menu... from the Help menu.

The basic approach to using BCKMGR is to create a new job (or select a pre-existing one), apply your desired options and submit it. As you will see, there are several other options including "Full disk recovery" and media assignment options, but job definition and submission are the principle functions.

Using BCKMGR, you can easily designate the media you are using for a backup, the job type, the number of media required and the priority of the job. You can set the submit options and the access controls. You can decide whether you want a record of your backup to be put in the VAULT database. Once you have all the settings defined for a job, it can be submitted at regular intervals, on a daily or weekly basis or any time span you designate.

One of the key attributes is the backup mode number. The backup mode controls how the backup operation is performed. Several predefined modes are provided with the system. Others can easily be added by the user as needed. Table Table 5-1 lists the various predefined mode numbers.

Table 5-1 Backup modes

	Standard		Scratch
Backup Type	Incremental	Full	Incremental	Full
On-line	2	3	4	5
Appending	13	14	15	16
Remote VMS	9	10	11	12
Remote PC	17	18	19	20
Remote NFS	21	22	23	24
Agent NT	25	25	25	25
Agent UNIX	26	26	26	26
Backup Type	Incremental	Full	After Image Journal
RDB	6	7	8

5.1 Backup types

The backup types are summarized in the below list.

• Standard - Standard indicates that the system will instruct the operator which media are to be used. During backups the system will issue OPCOM messages identifying exactly which media are to be loaded and on what drives. This is most commonly used with robotic systems and/or manually loaded drives.
• Scratch - Scratch indicates that the system will request the operator to mount a generic available medium. The operator selects from what is already known to be an available medium and loads it. The system will then dynamically adjust itself to verify and use the loaded medium. ¹ This is most commonly used with stacker types of automated tape handling systems.
• Incremental - An incremental backup job copies from on-line disk to the off-line media all files that have been modified or created since the last backup operation was performed. Incremental backups are typically fast and should be performed fairly often.
• Full - A full backup creates a full disk image. It makes a copy of the entire on-line disk to the off-line media. This type of backup is fairly lengthy and is usually done at a moderate frequency.
• After Image Journal - An After Image Journal writes out the RDB journal file to off-line media.
• On-line (2, 3, 4 and 5) - An on-line media is a normally accessible and system mounted disk that can be backed up using standard VMS backup.
• Appending (13, 14, 15 and 16) - Appending backups add new savesets to the same media as the previous run of the job. The previous data is not overwritten. New volumes are selected at intervals.
• Remote VMS (9, 10, 11 and 12) - The Remote VMS backup mode uses the DeviceShare ² utility. It allows a remote OpenVMS system to serve its local disk drives out to other OpenVMS systems and be backed up. These modes automatically connect/disconnect and perform the backup of such disks. This utility also makes remote tape drives available. They can be used as a dynamic output device as described in the next chapter.
• Remote PC (17, 18, 19 and 20) - The Remote PC backup uses the LANUtil ³ system. It allows your OpenVMS system to backup the hard drives in any PC on your LAN (Novell, Pathworks, or LANmanager). This utility also provides several other useful management features to assist in managing PCs.
• Remote NFS (21, 22, 23 and 24) - The Remote NFS backups allow the backup job to connect to a remote UNIX, WindowsNT or OpenVMS NFS server and backup the disk drives in that server. These modes automatically connect/disconnect while performing the backup. The Remote NFS backup mode uses any of the available TCP/IP for OpenVMS packages. The packages that have been tested are TCPware, ⁴ MultiNet, ⁵ and TCP/IP Services (or UCX). ⁶
• Agent NT (25) The Agent NT backup determines what media to use and then instigates a backup job on the remote NT system. This job would backup disk drives in the NT system to a tape drive attached to the NT system. Once the remote job completes usage information is collected and integrated back into the BCKMGR database.
• Agent UNIX (26) The Agent UNIX backup determines what media to use and then instigates a backup job on the remote UNIX system. This job would backup disk drives in the UNIX system to a tape drive attached to the UNIX system. Once the remote job completes, usage information is collected and integrated back into the BCKMGR database.
• RDB (6, 7 and 8) - An RDB backup is used to backup RDB databases either by area or completely.

OPERATORS or MANAGERS handling backups who also have SCHEDULE⁷ installed on their system can perform more sophisticated and event dependent jobs. BCKMGR will automatically detect if SCHEDULE is installed on your system and utilize it's advanced scheduling capabilities in performing your backups.

5.2 The BCKMGR interface

The BCKMGR interface is made up of the backup job selection fields, the job list and a number of controls for customizing and displaying the job list.

The procedure for performing backup job operations on one or more jobs are as follows:

1. Modify the list (optional) - The list may be modified to display jobs based on criteria in the Job selection fields or the Search controls... dialog box.
2. Display additional data (optional) - Additional data about the jobs in the list may be displayed using the Display controls... dialog. This will add additional columns to the display in order to determine what jobs may need to be selected.
3. Select job for operation - The jobs are selected with the mouse by clicking on jobs that are to be operated on.

   Note Techniques for selecting more than one job are explained in Section 5.2.1.

4. Choose the operation to be performed - The selected job(s) are now selected for use in the Operations menu. The Operations menu may also be accessed by double clicking on a job in the job list.

There are several methods for selecting which jobs are to be displayed in BCKMGR. This allows a user to limit the displayed jobs in the list according to criteria that makes sense for the situation. Perhaps you need to only select from the list of incremental jobs or full jobs.

The most obvious way to limit the list's scope is to designate Include or Exclude criteria from the Job selection section of the main screen. The resulting list would be limited to those jobs that were excluded (or included) by the job name entered in those fields.

Another way of selecting a limited list of jobs using other criteria is by selecting the Search controls... button on the main screen. A dialog box display will give the user the ability to limit the list by Job type, Backup mode, Media type etc.

The jobs you select from the job list will all be affected by the operation you perform. It is therefore important that you are sure all selected jobs are correct. The methods for selecting jobs are described in detail in the following sections.