CONTENTS Title Page Copyright Page Preface New and Changed Features 1 Introduction to the VAX Storage Library System 1.1 VAX SLS Software Product Description 1.1.1 VAX SLS Software Features 1.1.1.1 Who uses VAX SLS software 1.1.1.2 Backup management 1.1.1.3 Archive management 1.1.1.4 Volume management 1.1.1.5 Media management 1.1.1.6 Restore management 1.1.1.7 Authorization management 1.1.2 The VAX SLS Server and Client Processes 1.1.2.1 Purposes of the VAX SLS server and client processes 1.1.2.2 Basic block diagram of VAX SLS server and client processes 1.2 Storage Administration 1.2.1 Concepts and Principles of Storage Administration 1.2.1.1 Classes of data storage that affect availability 1.2.1.2 Definition: On-line storage 1.2.1.3 Definition: Near-line storage 1.2.1.4 Definition: Off-line storage 1.2.1.5 Why you save data 1.2.1.6 Backup copy of data 1.2.1.7 Archive copy of data 1.3 Responsibilities for the Storage Administrator, Operator, and User 1.3.1 The Storage Administrator's Responsibilities 1.3.1.1 Defining backup and archiving policy 1.3.1.2 Installing VAX SLS software 1.3.1.3 Configuring VAX SLS software 1.3.1.4 Policy implementation 1.3.1.5 Policy administration 1.3.2 The Operator's Responsibilities 1.3.3 The User's Responsibilities 1.4 Storage Management with VAX SLS Software 1.4.1 The Storage Administrator's Tasks 1.4.2 The Operator's Tasks 1.4.3 The User's Tasks 2 Starting Up the VAX SLS Software 2.1 Startup and Shutdown Procedures 2.1.1 How to Start Up the VAX SLS Software 2.1.2 DCL Command: STORAGE SHOW VERSION 2.1.2.1 Description 2.1.2.2 Format 2.1.2.3 Parameters 2.1.2.4 Qualifiers 2.1.2.5 Example: SHOW VERSION 3 VAX SLS Interfaces 3.1 Types of Interfaces 3.1.1 VAX SLS Operator Menu 3.1.1.1 Description 3.1.1.2 Required privileges 3.1.1.3 User interface 3.1.1.4 Displaying the VAX SLS Operator Menu 3.1.1.5 VAX SLS Operator Menu options 3.1.2 VAX SLS STORAGE Command Interfaces 3.1.3 VAX SLS Operator Menu: DCL Storage Command 3.1.3.1 Description 3.1.3.2 DCL Storage Command screen diagram 3.1.3.3 Procedure 3.1.4 DCL STORAGE Command 3.1.4.1 Description 3.1.5 On-line Help 3.1.6 Keyboard Interface 4 Before You Begin 4.1 Storage Definitions 4.1.1 Common Terms and Definitions 4.1.1.1 Definition: Media 4.1.1.2 Definition: Volume 4.1.1.3 Definition: Single-sided and double-sided media 4.1.1.4 Definition: Volume sets 4.1.1.5 Definition: Volume ID 4.1.1.6 Definition: Volume set ID 4.1.1.7 Definition: Volume label 4.1.1.8 Definition: Printable label 4.1.1.9 Contents of a Volume ID record 4.1.1.10 Where Volume ID records are stored 4.1.1.11 Definition: Volume pool 4.1.1.12 Volume retention period 4.1.1.13 Definition: Volume scratch date 4.1.1.14 Definition: Volume state 4.2 Volume Life Cycle 4.2.1 Volume States 4.2.1.1 How volume states are determined 4.2.1.2 Example: Volume state cycling 4.2.2 Changing a Volume State 4.2.2.1 Determining the state of freed volumes 4.2.2.2 When to retrieve volumes from the transition state 4.2.2.3 Automatic process releases volumes to scratch 4.2.3 Volume Protection 4.2.3.1 User categories 4.3 Volume Management Privileges 4.4 Quick Reference Table 5 Volume Management 5.1 Volume Managment Overview 5.1.1 How VAX SLS Software Manages Volumes 5.1.1.1 Where volume information resides 5.1.1.2 Types of volume format 5.2 Maintenance Menu Interface 5.2.1 VAX SLS Operator Menu: Maintenance Menu 5.2.1.1 Description 5.2.1.2 Maintenance Menu screen diagram 5.2.1.3 Procedure 5.2.1.4 Menu options 5.3 Adding Volumes 5.3.1 VAX SLS Operator Menu: Add Volume 5.3.1.1 Description 5.3.1.2 Add Volumes screen diagram 5.3.1.3 Procedure 5.3.1.4 Field descriptions (Page 2) 5.3.2 VAX SLS Operator Menu: Add Volume Series 5.3.2.1 Description 5.3.2.2 Add Volume Series screen diagram 5.3.2.3 Procedure 5.3.2.4 Field descriptions 5.3.3 DCL Command: STORAGE ADD VOLUME 5.3.3.1 Description 5.3.3.2 Format 5.3.3.3 How to decide which format to use 5.3.3.4 Rules 5.3.3.5 Parameters 5.3.3.6 Qualifiers 5.3.3.7 Examples: ADD VOLUME 5.4 Creating Volume Sets 5.4.1 Overview: Volume Sets 5.4.1.1 When are volume sets created by backup and archive operations? 5.4.1.2 When to create volume sets using the DCL STORAGE commands 5.4.2 How to Create Volume Sets 5.4.3 DCL Command: STORAGE APPEND 5.4.3.1 Description 5.4.3.2 Format 5.4.3.3 Format guidelines 5.4.3.4 Rules 5.4.3.5 Parameter 5.4.3.6 Qualifiers 5.4.3.7 Examples: APPEND 5.4.4 Using the STORAGE ALLOCATE Command to Create a Volume Set 5.4.5 Splitting Volume Sets 5.4.6 DCL Command: STORAGE SPLIT 5.4.6.1 Description 5.4.6.2 Format 5.4.6.3 Rules 5.4.6.4 Parameter 5.4.6.5 Qualifier 5.4.6.6 Examples: SPLIT 5.4.7 Dissolving Volume Sets 5.5 Removing Volumes 5.5.1 VAX SLS Operator Menu: Remove Volume 5.5.1.1 Description 5.5.1.2 Restriction 5.5.1.3 Remove Volume screen diagram 5.5.1.4 Procedure 5.5.1.5 Field descriptions 5.5.2 DCL Command: STORAGE REMOVE VOLUME 5.5.2.1 Description 5.5.2.2 Format 5.5.2.3 Rules 5.5.2.4 Parameters 5.5.2.5 Qualifiers 5.5.2.6 Examples: REMOVE VOLUME 5.6 Modifying Volumes 5.6.1 VAX SLS Operator Menu: Modify Volume 5.6.1.1 Description 5.6.1.2 Modify Volume screen diagram 5.6.1.3 Procedure 5.6.1.4 Field descriptions 5.6.2 DCL Command: STORAGE SET VOLUME 5.6.2.1 Description 5.6.2.2 Format 5.6.2.3 Rules 5.6.2.4 Parameters 5.6.2.5 Required privileges: Qualifiers 5.6.2.6 Qualifiers 5.6.2.7 Examples: SET VOLUME 5.7 Showing Volume Information 5.7.1 Overview: Showing Volume Information 5.7.1.1 Outputting SHOW VOLUME information to a file 5.7.1.2 Creating a local symbol 5.7.1.3 Showing volumes due to be scratched 5.7.2 VAX SLS Operator Menu: Show Volume 5.7.2.1 Description 5.7.2.2 Show Volume screen diagram 5.7.2.3 Procedure 5.7.2.4 Field descriptions 5.7.3 DCL Command: STORAGE SHOW VOLUME 5.7.3.1 Description 5.7.3.2 Format 5.7.3.3 Rules 5.7.3.4 Parameter 5.7.3.5 Qualifiers 5.7.3.6 Examples: SHOW VOLUME 5.8 Allocating and Deallocating Volumes 5.8.1 Allocating Volumes 5.8.1.1 How volumes are selected for allocation 5.8.1.2 How to specify volume selection criteria 5.8.1.3 Allocating a volume: Determining the appropriate qualifiers 5.8.2 DCL Command: STORAGE ALLOCATE 5.8.2.1 Description 5.8.2.2 Format 5.8.2.3 Parameter 5.8.2.4 Qualifiers 5.8.2.5 Examples: ALLOCATE 5.8.3 Showing the Last Allocated Volume 5.8.4 DCL Command: STORAGE SHOW LAST_ALLOCATED 5.8.4.1 Description 5.8.4.2 Format 5.8.4.3 Parameters 5.8.4.4 Qualifiers 5.8.4.5 Example: SHOW LAST_ALLOCATED 5.8.5 Deallocating Volumes and Volume Sets 5.8.6 DCL Command: STORAGE DEALLOCATE 5.8.6.1 Description 5.8.6.2 Format 5.8.6.3 Rules 5.8.6.4 Parameter 5.8.6.5 Qualifiers 5.8.6.6 Examples: DEALLOCATE 5.8.7 Releasing Volumes 5.8.8 VAX SLS Operator Menu: Release Volumes 5.8.8.1 Description 5.8.8.2 Release Volumes screen diagram 5.8.8.3 Procedure 5.8.9 DCL Command: STORAGE RELEASE 5.8.9.1 Description 5.8.9.2 Format 5.8.9.3 Rules 5.8.9.4 Parameter 5.8.9.5 Qualifiers 5.8.9.6 Example: RELEASE 5.9 Initializing Volumes 5.9.1 VAX SLS Operator Menu: Initialize Volumes 5.9.1.1 Description 5.9.1.2 Initialize Volumes screen diagram 5.9.1.3 Procedure 5.10 Creating Printed Labels 5.10.1 Overview: Volume labels 5.10.1.1 Requirement 5.10.2 DCL Command: STORAGE CREATE LABEL 5.10.2.1 Description 5.10.2.2 Format 5.10.2.3 Parameters 5.10.2.4 Qualifiers 5.10.2.5 Examples: CREATE LABEL 5.10.3 DCL Command: STORAGE LABEL 5.10.3.1 Description 5.10.3.2 Format 5.10.3.3 Parameter 5.10.3.4 Qualifier 5.10.3.5 Example: LABEL 5.11 Cleaning Volumes 5.11.1 Why Volumes Need to be Cleaned 5.11.1.1 Selecting volumes due for cleaning 5.11.2 Error and Mount Count Tracking Process 5.11.2.1 Incrementing the mount and error count 5.11.3 VAX SLS Operator Menu: Update Clean Data 5.11.3.1 Description 5.11.3.2 Update Clean Data screen diagram 5.11.3.3 Procedure 5.11.4 VAX SLS Operator Menu: Volumes Due for Cleaning 5.11.4.1 Description 5.11.4.2 Volumes Due for Cleaning screen diagram 5.11.4.3 Procedure 5.12 Generating Reports 5.12.1 VAX SLS Operator Menu: Generate Volume Report 5.12.1.1 Description 5.12.1.2 Generate Volume Report screen diagram 5.12.1.3 Procedure 5.12.1.4 Field descriptions 5.12.2 DCL Command: STORAGE SHOW VOLUME 5.12.2.1 Description 5.12.2.2 Format 5.12.2.3 Parameter 5.12.2.4 Qualifiers 5.12.2.5 Examples: SHOW VOLUME 5.12.3 VAX SLS Operator Menu: Free Volumes 5.12.3.1 Description 5.12.3.2 Free Volumes screen diagram 5.12.3.3 Procedure 5.12.4 VAX SLS Operator Menu: Volumes Due for Allocation 5.12.4.1 Description 5.12.4.2 Volumes Due for Allocation screen diagram 5.12.4.3 Procedure 5.12.5 VAX SLS Operator Menu: Allocated Volumes 5.12.5.1 Description 5.12.5.2 Allocated Volumes screen diagram 5.12.5.3 Procedure 5.12.6 VAX SLS Operator Menu: Down Volumes 5.12.6.1 Description 5.12.6.2 Down Volumes screen diagram 5.12.6.3 Procedure 5.12.7 VAX SLS Operator Menu: Volumes in Transition 5.12.7.1 Description 5.12.7.2 Volumes in Transition screen diagram 5.12.7.3 Procedure 5.12.8 VAX SLS Operator Menu: Quantity Control 5.12.8.1 Description 5.12.8.2 Quantity Control screen diagram 5.12.8.3 Procedure 5.12.9 DCL Command: STORAGE REPORT VOLUME 5.12.9.1 Description 5.12.9.2 Format 5.12.9.3 Rules 5.12.9.4 Parameters 5.12.9.5 Parameter fields 5.12.9.6 Qualifiers 5.12.9.7 Examples: REPORT VOLUME 6 Slot Management 6.1 Adding and Removing Slot Definitions 6.1.1 What are Slot Definitions 6.1.1.1 Scenario: Slot definitions 6.1.2 VAX SLS Operator Menu: Add Slot Definitions 6.1.2.1 Description 6.1.2.2 Add Slot Definition screen diagram 6.1.2.3 Procedure 6.1.3 VAX SLS Operator Menu: Remove Slot Definition 6.1.3.1 Description 6.1.3.2 Remove Slot Definitions screen diagram 6.1.3.3 Procedure 6.2 Generating Reports 6.2.1 DCL Command: STORAGE REPORT SLOT 6.2.1.1 Description 6.2.1.2 Format 6.2.1.3 Rules 6.2.1.4 Parameter 6.2.1.5 Qualifiers 6.2.1.6 Example: REPORT SLOT 7 Vault Management 7.1 Transferring Volumes On Site or Off Site 7.1.1 Managing Off-Site Vault Storage 7.1.1.1 Purpose: Off-site vault storage 7.1.1.2 Updating volume locations 7.1.1.3 Changing volume locations using DCL 7.1.1.4 Scheduling off-site/on-site transfers 7.1.2 VAX SLS Operator Menu: Vault Management Menu 7.1.2.1 Description 7.1.2.2 Vault Management Menu screen diagram 7.1.2.3 Procedure 7.1.2.4 Menu options 7.1.3 VAX SLS Operator Menu: Change to Onsite 7.1.3.1 Description 7.1.3.2 Change to Onsite screen diagram 7.1.3.3 Procedure 7.1.4 VAX SLS Operator Menu: Change to Offsite 7.1.4.1 Description 7.1.4.2 Change to Offsite screen diagram 7.1.4.3 Procedure 7.1.5 VAX SLS Operator Menu: Change Onsite Date 7.1.5.1 Description 7.1.5.2 Change Onsite Date screen diagram 7.1.5.3 Procedure 7.1.6 VAX SLS Operator Menu: Change Offsite Date 7.1.6.1 Description 7.1.6.2 Change Offsite Date screen diagram 7.1.6.3 Procedure 7.1.7 VAX SLS Operator Menu: Change Name for Current Process 7.1.7.1 Description 7.1.7.2 Change Name for Current Process screen diagram 7.1.7.3 Procedure 7.1.8 VAX SLS Operator Menu: Mass Movement 7.1.8.1 Description 7.1.8.2 Mass Movement screen diagram 7.1.8.3 Procedure 7.2 Generating Reports 7.2.1 VAX SLS Operator Menu: Volumes Offsite 7.2.1.1 Description 7.2.1.2 Volumes Offsite screen diagram 7.2.1.3 Procedure 7.2.2 VAX SLS Operator Menu: Volumes to go Offsite 7.2.2.1 Description 7.2.2.2 Volumes to go Offsite screen diagram 7.2.2.3 Procedure 7.2.3 VAX SLS Operator Menu: Volumes to Come Onsite 7.2.3.1 Description 7.2.3.2 Volumes to Come Onsite screen diagram 7.2.3.3 Procedure 7.2.4 VAX SLS Operator Menu: Vault Profile Report 7.2.4.1 Description 7.2.4.2 Vault Profile Report screen diagram 7.2.4.3 Procedure 8 Drive Management 8.1 Adding, Selecting and Removing Drives 8.1.1 DCL Command: STORAGE ADD DRIVE 8.1.1.1 Description 8.1.1.2 Format 8.1.1.3 Rules 8.1.1.4 Parameter 8.1.1.5 Qualifiers 8.1.1.6 Examples: ADD DRIVE 8.1.2 DCL Command: STORAGE SELECT 8.1.2.1 Description 8.1.2.2 Format 8.1.2.3 Parameters 8.1.2.4 Qualifiers 8.1.2.5 Examples: SELECT 8.1.3 DCL Command: STORAGE REMOVE DRIVE 8.1.3.1 Description 8.1.3.2 Format 8.1.3.3 Rules 8.1.3.4 Parameter 8.1.3.5 Qualifiers 8.1.3.6 Example: REMOVE DRIVE 8.2 Allocating Drives 8.2.1 DCL Command: STORAGE SHOW DRIVE 8.2.1.1 Description 8.2.1.2 Format 8.2.1.3 Rules 8.2.1.4 Parameter 8.2.1.5 Qualifiers 8.2.1.6 Example: SHOW DRIVE 8.2.2 DCL Command: STORAGE UNLOAD DRIVE 8.2.2.1 Description 8.2.2.2 Format 8.2.2.3 Rules 8.2.2.4 Parameter 8.2.2.5 Qualifiers 8.2.2.6 Example: UNLOAD DRIVE 8.2.3 DCL Command: STORAGE LOAD 8.2.3.1 Description 8.2.3.2 Format 8.2.3.3 Rules 8.2.3.4 Parameters 8.2.3.5 Qualifiers 8.2.3.6 Examples: LOAD 8.2.4 DCL Command: STORAGE UNLOAD VOLUME 8.2.4.1 Description 8.2.4.2 Format 8.2.4.3 Rules 8.2.4.4 Parameter 8.2.4.5 Qualifiers 8.2.4.6 Example: UNLOAD VOLUME 9 Save and Restore Operations 9.1 Backup Operations 9.1.1 Why Backup Operations are Important 9.1.1.1 How VAX SLS performs save operations 9.1.2 Types of Backup Operations 9.1.2.1 Save and restore operations with nonlibrary volumes 9.1.3 VAX SLS Operator Menu: Manual System Backup 9.1.3.1 Description 9.1.3.2 Accessing the Manual System Backup menu option 9.1.3.3 Procedure 9.1.4 DCL Command: STORAGE STARTUP SYSTEM_BACKUP 9.1.4.1 Description 9.1.4.2 Format 9.1.4.3 Rules 9.1.4.4 Parameter 9.1.4.5 Qualifiers 9.1.4.6 Example: STARTUP SYSTEM_BACKUP 9.1.5 DCL Command: STORAGE SAVE 9.1.5.1 Description 9.1.5.2 Format 9.1.5.3 Parameters 9.1.5.4 Qualifiers 9.1.5.5 Examples: SAVE 9.1.6 VAX SLS Operator Menu: Save Screen 9.1.6.1 Description 9.1.6.2 User interface 9.1.6.3 Save Screen screen diagram 9.1.6.4 Procedure 9.1.7 DCL Command: STORAGE SAVE/SCREEN 9.1.7.1 Description 9.1.7.2 Format 9.1.7.3 Parameters 9.1.7.4 Qualifiers 9.1.7.5 Example: SAVE/SCREEN 9.2 Restore Operations 9.2.1 Purpose of Restore Operations 9.2.2 VAX SLS Operator Menu: Full Disk Restore 9.2.2.1 Description 9.2.2.2 Full Disk Restore screen diagram 9.2.2.3 Procedure 9.2.3 DCL Command: STORAGE RESTORE 9.2.3.1 Description 9.2.3.2 Format 9.2.3.3 Parameters 9.2.3.4 Qualifiers 9.2.3.5 Examples: RESTORE 9.2.4 VAX SLS Operator Menu: Restore Screen 9.2.4.1 Description 9.2.4.2 User interface 9.2.4.3 Restore Screen screen diagram 9.2.4.4 Procedure 9.2.5 DCL Command: STORAGE RESTORE/SCREEN 9.2.5.1 Description 9.2.5.2 Format 9.2.5.3 Parameters 9.2.5.4 Qualifiers 9.2.5.5 Example: RESTORE/SCREEN 9.2.6 DCL Command: STORAGE REQUEUE 9.2.6.1 Description 9.2.6.2 Format 9.2.6.3 Rules 9.2.6.4 Parameters 9.2.6.5 Qualifiers 9.2.6.6 Example: REQUEUE 10 Archive Operations 10.1 Standby Archive Tasks 10.1.1 Standby Archive Process 10.1.1.1 Requirement 10.1.1.2 Restrictions 10.1.1.3 Before you begin 10.1.1.4 How standby archiving uses .ARKIVE files 10.1.1.5 How to interrupt the standby archive process 10.1.2 VAX SLS Operator Menu: Standby Archive 10.1.2.1 Description 10.1.2.2 Standby Archive Menu screen display 10.1.2.3 Standby Archive menu options 10.1.3 VAX SLS Operator Menu: Start Up Standby Archive 10.1.3.1 Description 10.1.3.2 Startup Standby Archive screen display 10.1.3.3 Procedure 10.1.4 VAX SLS Operator Menu: Shutdown Standby Archive 10.1.4.1 Description 10.1.4.2 Procedure 10.1.5 VAX SLS Operator Menu: Abort Standby Archive 10.1.5.1 Description 10.1.5.2 Procedure 10.1.6 VAX SLS Operator Menu: Authorize Class Access for a User 10.1.6.1 Description 10.1.6.2 Procedure 10.2 Generating Reports 10.2.1 VAX SLS Operator Menu: Inquire Pending Jobs 10.2.1.1 Description 10.2.1.2 Procedure 11 Managing VAX SLS History Files 11.1 Creating and Maintaining VAX SLS History Files 11.1.1 Purpose of VAX SLS History File Sets 11.1.1.1 Tracking VAX SLS history files 11.1.1.2 VAX SLS history files make retrieving user files easy 11.1.1.3 Conditions for transferring existing backup files to VAX SLS history files 11.1.1.4 Transferring existing backup files to VAX SLS history files 11.1.2 VAX SLS Operator Menu: System Clean Menu 11.1.2.1 Description 11.1.2.2 System Clean Menu screen diagram 11.1.2.3 Procedure 11.1.2.4 Menu options 11.1.3 VAX SLS Operator Menu: Start SYSCLN Processing 11.1.3.1 Description 11.1.3.2 Start SYSCLN Processing screen diagram 11.1.3.3 Procedure 11.1.4 VAX SLS Operator Menu: Shutdown SYSCLN Processing 11.1.4.1 Description 11.1.4.2 Shutdown SYSCLN Processing screen diagram 11.1.4.3 Procedure 11.1.5 VAX SLS Operator Menu: Inquire SYSCLN Status 11.1.5.1 Description 11.1.5.2 Procedure 11.1.6 VAX SLS Operator Menu: Abort SYSCLN Processing 11.1.6.1 Description 11.1.6.2 Abort SYSCLN screen diagram 11.1.6.3 Procedure 11.1.7 VAX SLS Operator Menu: Delete User Histories 11.1.7.1 Description 11.1.7.2 Delete User Histories screen diagram 11.1.7.3 Procedure 11.2 Generating Reports 11.2.1 DCL Command: STORAGE REPORT FILE 11.2.1.1 Description 11.2.1.2 Format 11.2.1.3 Rules 11.2.1.4 Parameter 11.2.1.5 Qualifiers 11.2.1.6 Examples: REPORT FILE 11.2.2 DCL Command: STORAGE REPORT SYSTEM 11.2.2.1 Description 11.2.2.2 Format 11.2.2.3 Parameter 11.2.2.4 Qualifiers 11.2.2.5 Example: REPORT SYSTEM 12 Tape Drive Operations 12.1 Operator Communication Manager 12.1.1 OPCOM 12.1.1.1 How VAX SLS uses OPCOM to display request messages 12.1.1.2 Example: OPCOM request message format 12.1.1.3 OPCOM error messages 12.1.2 Using OPCOM to Respond to Request Messages 12.1.2.1 How to respond to an OPCOM request message 12.1.2.2 How LOAD requests are initiated 12.1.2.3 How to respond to a LOAD request 12.1.2.4 How to use REPLY in a command procedure 12.1.3 Confirming the Volume Label 12.2 TA90 Magnetic Tape Subsystem 12.2.1 Purpose of the TA90 Magnetic Tape Subsystem 12.2.1.1 TA90 Magnetic Tape Subsystem description 12.2.1.2 Before you begin 12.2.2 Performing Unattended System Backups 12.2.2.1 Performing unattended system backups using preallocated volume sets 12.2.3 Performing Successive System Backups 13 RV64 Jukebox Subsystem Operations 13.1 Using the RV64 Jukebox Subsystem 13.1.1 Purpose of the RV64 Jukebox Subsystem 13.1.1.1 RV64 Jukebox Subsystem description 13.1.1.2 RV02K optical cartridge description 13.1.1.3 Before using the RV64 Jukebox Subsystem 13.1.2 DCL Command: STORAGE IMPORT 13.1.2.1 Description 13.1.2.2 Format 13.1.2.3 Rules 13.1.2.4 Parameter 13.1.2.5 Qualifiers 13.1.2.6 Examples: IMPORT 13.1.3 DCL Command: STORAGE EXPORT 13.1.3.1 Description 13.1.3.2 Format 13.1.3.3 Rules 13.1.3.4 Parameter 13.1.3.5 Qualifiers 13.1.3.6 Examples: EXPORT A System Messages A.1 About This Appendix A.2 Message Format A.3 Success Messages A.4 Informational Messages A.5 Warning Messages A.6 Error Messages A.7 Fatal Messages Glossary G.1 About This Glossary FIGURES 1-1 VAX SLS Server and Client Processes 3-1 VAX SLS Operator Menu 3-2 DCL Storage Command screen 4-1 Volume State Cycling 5-1 Maintenance Menu screen 5-2 Add Volumes screen 5-3 Add Volume Series screen 5-4 Remove Volume screen 5-5 Modify Volume screen 5-6 Show Volume screen 5-7 Release Volumes screen 5-8 Initialize Volumes screen 5-9 Update Clean Data screen 5-10 Volumes Due for Cleaning screen 5-11 Generate Volume Report screen 5-12 Free Volumes screen 5-13 Volumes Due for Allocation screen 5-14 Allocated Volumes screen 5-15 Down Volumes screen 5-16 Volumes in Transition screen 5-17 Quantity Control screen 6-1 Add Slot Definitions screen 6-2 Remove Slot Definitions screen 7-1 Vault Management Menu screen 7-2 Change to Onsite screen 7-3 Change to Offsite screen diagram 7-4 Change Onsite Date screen 7-5 Change Offsite Date screen 7-6 Change Name for Current Process screen 7-7 Mass Movement screen 7-8 Volumes Offsite screen 7-9 Volumes to go Offsite screen 7-10 Volumes to Come Onsite screen 7-11 Vault Profile Report screen 9-1 Save Screen screen 9-2 Full Disk Restore screen 9-3 Restore Screen screen 10-1 Standby Archive Menu screen 10-2 Startup Standby Archive Menu screen 11-1 System Clean Menu screen 11-2 Start SYSCLN Processing screen 11-3 Shutdown SYSCLN Processing screen 11-4 Abort SYSCLN Screen 11-5 Delete User Histories screen TABLES 4-1 Quick Reference Table 5-1 Maintenance Menu 5-2 Add Volume 5-3 Add Volume Series 5-4 Remove Volume 5-5 Modify Volume 5-6 Show Volume 5-7 Release Volumes 5-8 Initialize Volumes 5-9 Update Clean Data 5-10 Volumes Due for Cleaning 5-11 Generate Volume Report 5-12 Free Volumes 5-13 Volumes Due for Allocation 5-14 Allocated Volumes 5-15 Down Volumes 5-16 Volumes in Transition 5-17 Quantity Control 5-18 Field Parameters 6-1 Add Slot Definitions 6-2 Remove Slot Definitions 7-1 Vault Management Menu 7-2 Change to Onsite 7-3 Change to Offsite 7-4 Change Onsite Date 7-5 Change Offsite Date 7-6 Change Name for Current Process 7-7 Mass Movement 7-8 Volumes Offsite 7-9 Volumes to go Offsite 7-10 Volumes to Come Onsite 7-11 Vault Profile Report 9-1 Manual System Backup 9-2 Save Screen 9-3 Full Disk Restore 9-4 Restore Screen 10-1 Standby Archive Menu 10-2 Start Up Standby Archive 10-3 Shutdown Standby Archive 10-4 Abort Standby Archive 10-5 Authorized Class Access for a User 10-6 Inquire Pending Jobs 11-1 Transferring Existing Backup Files to VAX SLS History Files 11-2 System Clean Menu 11-3 Start SYSCLN Processing 11-4 Shutdown SYSCLN Processing 11-5 Abort SYSCLN Process 11-6 Delete User Histories 12-1 Unattended system backup 12-2 Unattended System Backups Using Preallocated Volume Sets A-1 Location of Message Descriptions