In order to add system wide or current user reports to the Create a media report menu, choose Add system wide reports or Add current user reports to menu from the Control settings menu. A menu listing of the reports not already added to the menu will appear. Choose the desired report and it will appear the next time the program is invoked.

In order to remove system wide or current user reports from the Create a media report menu, choose Remove system wide reports or Remove current user reports from menu from the Control settings menu.

A menu listing of the reports already added to the menu will appear.

Figure 7-20 Select report to remove

Choose the desired report and it will not appear the next time the program is invoked.

7.16 Media Contents REPORTS

To produce reports about media contents, select Media Contents REPORTS from the Media Library functions menu.

Selecting any menu item from the first menu item up to the Control settings menu item will produce a report. Reports can be added or removed from this menu by user selections within the Control settings menu item. For information on the creation of reports, see <REFERENCE>(date_rep), "Database reporting".

7.16.1 Control settings

To control the selection of data to be reported and parameters related to producing the report, select Control settings from the Create a MEDIAF Report menu.

To control the selection of data to be reported, select Set selections from the Control Settings menu. Refer to Section 7.15.2.1 for a description of the procedure involved in setting the selection data.

7.16.1.2 Set execution mode

To control the output of the report, select Set execution mode from the Control Settings menu. For a detailed description of the Set execution mode procedure, see Section 7.15.2.2.

7.16.1.3 Set submit parameters

To set the submit parameters for the reports, select Set submit parameters from the Control Settings menu. For a complete description of the Set submit parameter operation, see Section 7.15.2.3.

7.16.1.4 Set print parameters

To set the print parameters for the reports, select Set print parameters from the Control Settings menu.

7.16.1.5 Add reports to menu

In order to add system wide or current user reports to the Create a media report menu, choose Add system wide reports or Add current user reports to menu from the Control settings menu. A menu listing of the reports not already added to the menu will appear.

Choose the desired report and it will appear the next time the menu option "MEDIA Contents Reports" is selected.

7.16.1.6 Remove reports from menu

In order to remove system wide or current user reports from the Create a media report menu, choose Remove system wide reports or Remove current user reports from menu from the Control settings menu.

A menu listing of the reports already added to the menu will appear.

Choose the desired report and it will not appear the next time the menu option "MEDIAF Contents Reports" is selected.

7.17 MCL Report types

MEDIA features a wide variety of report types which provide information on many aspects of the MEDIA database. The reports are divided into two distinct categories: contents and database reports. Each of these categories are further divided into current user and system wide reports. Each will be explained in the following lists.

7.17.1 Database report types

Database reports provide information on the MEDIA database. This specifically refers to database entries such as location, type or expiration date of the specified media.

7.17.1.1 System wide database reports

If the user chooses to submit a system wide report, all media in the database that are accessible by the user are eligible for inclusion. The report types are:

All, by location	All, by error count	Brief, by full
Brief, by allocated pool	All, by expiring	Brief, by location
Brief, by summary	All, by full	Brief, by offsite
Select, by summary	All, by offsite	Brief, by onsite
Select, by location	All, by onsite	Brief, by pool count
Select, by type	All, by summary	Brief, by release pool
Sort, by comment	Brief, by available pool	Brief, by user count
Sort, by location	Brief, by error count	Brief, by user
Sort, by type	Brief, by expiring

7.17.1.2 Current user database reports

If the user chooses to submit a current user report, only media in the database that are owned by the current user are eligible for inclusion. The report types are:

All, by error count	All, by user	Brief, by summary
All, by expiring	Brief, by error count	Select, by comment
All, by full	Brief, by expiring	Select, by location
All, by location	Brief, by full	Select, by type
All, by offsite	Brief, by location	Select, by comment
All, by onsite	Brief, by offsite	Select, by location
All, by summary	Brief, by onsite

7.17.2 Contents reports

Contents reports provide information on the files and directories that are contained on the media in the database. Typical information will be file names, directories and file counts.

7.17.2.1 System wide contents reports

If the user chooses to submit a system wide report, all media in the database that are accessible by the user are eligible for inclusion. The report types are:

All, by directory	Select, by directory	Sort, by directory
All, by file count	Select, by file count	Sort, by file count
All, by full name	Select, by full name	Sort, by full name
All, by size	Select, by size	Sort, by size

7.17.2.2 Current user contents reports

If the user chooses to submit a current user report, only media in the database that are owned by the current user are eligible for inclusion. The report types are:

All, by directory	Select, by directory	Sort, by directory
All, by file count	Select, by file count	Sort, by file count
All, by full name	Select, by full name	Sort, by full name
All, by size	Select, by size	Sort, by size

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 8-1 lists the various predefined mode numbers.

Table 8-1 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
Backup Type	Incremental	Full	After Image Journal
RDB	6	7	8

8.1 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 manualy 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 available a 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 backup job. 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 DeviceShare² utility. It allows a remote OpenVMS system to serve it's local disk drives out to other OpenVMS systems and be backed up. These modes automatically connect/disconnect and performs 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 LANUtil³ 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 PC.
• Remote NFS (21, 22, 23 and 24) - The Remote NFS backups allows 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 TCPware⁴ 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.
• 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.