Syback

        By Cathy Hardy, Academic Database Consultant (ac55@vm.acs.unt.edu)

        How many times have you accidentally deleted a file that you REALLY need? Was it there (on your 191 mini disk before the last daily backup? Good news! You can restore your file! It's easy...

        Type SYBLIST at the CMS Ready prompt and the Syback menu will pull up. The menu will pull up with defaults of your CMS userid and 0191 disk, and the latest backup. You may change the disk if you have more than one, but you can only restore your ID. You may change the backup date, but you'll probably just want to look at the latest backup. Hit < PF4 > to see the files backed up and use < PF9 > to mark a file (or files) to be restored. Then hit < PF12 > to go to the restore destination menu. The restore destination defaults to your rdrlist, an excellent place for a file to park until you know that's the one you wanted. < PF2 > will submit the restore job and you will see messages from syback when the job starts and finishes. Something like this:

        SYBMON: MON111 JOB00065 SYBACK SYSIN queued

        SYBACK: 11:11:02 SHL216I SYBACK Job Started

        and then:

        SYBACK: 11:15:20 SHL218I

        SYBACK Job Ended - Return Code = 0

        SYBACK: 11:15:20 SHL219I All tasks completed successfully

        Now you can look in your rdrlist and find your file(s) and 2 files from syback giving information on the restore job like the time it ran, what tape drives were used, etc. If you are happy with your file, RECEIVE it to your filelist and you can discard the 2 syback files from your rdrlist. Now all you have to do is try to remember all those changes you made to the file since the backup....

        To see a help file on SYBLIST, type HELP SYBLIST at the CMS Ready prompt.

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