Exporting Policy Domains

To export policy information for one or more policy domains from a Tivoli Storage Manager server to sequential media, complete the following fields.  Then, click Finish, or click Cancel to end the task.

Policy Domain Name

Select a policy domain name.

Preview

Specify whether you want to preview the results of the export operation, without actually exporting information.

Yes Preview the results of the export operation, without actually exporting policy information.
No Export the policy information without giving you a preview of the results. If you specify this value, you must specify a value for Device Class. The default is No.

Device Class

Enter a device class. Export data will be written to this device. Device Class is required unless you specified Preview=Yes. You cannot specify the DISK or NAS device class. If the mount limit for the device class specified has already been reached (all drives are busy) when the export runs, Tivoli Storage Manager automatically cancels lower priority operations, such as reclamation, to make a mount point available for the export.

Use Scratch Volumes?

Specify whether scratch volumes can be used for export.  

Yes Scratch volumes are to be used for export. If you include a list of volumes on Volume Names, then scratch volumes are used only if there is not enough space to store the exported files on the volumes specified. If the device type associated with the specified device class is File, file names for scratch volumes are generated based on a time stamp. The default is Yes.
No Scratch volumes cannot be used for export.

Volume Names

Enter the names of one or more volumes used to contain the exported data. This parameter is optional. You must specify a volume name if Use Scratch Volumes=No and Preview=No. If you do not specify a volume name, then scratch volumes are used. 

volname The name of one or more volumes used to contain the exported data. You can specify more than one volume by separating each volume with a comma, with no intervening spaces.

Example: To use volumes TAPE01, TAPE02, TAPE03, specify the following: TAPE01, TAPE02, TAPE03

FILE: filename The name of a file that contains a list of volumes to use to store the exported data. Each volume name must be on a separate line within the file. Blank lines and comment lines beginning with an asterisk are ignored.

Example: To use TAPE01, TAPE02, and TAPE03, create a file named TAPEVOL that contains these lines:

TAPE01
TAPE02
TAPE03

You can then enter FILE:tapevol in the Volume Names entry field.

Use the following naming conventions when specifying volumes for each device type:

File Specify any fully qualified name string for your platform, for example:
AIX /exdata/mt1
HP-UX /exdata/mt1
Linux /dev/mt1
MVS ex.data.mt1
PASE /exdata/mt1
Sun Solaris /exdata/mt1
Windows d:\win32app\ibm\adsm\server\data1.dsm
VM ex.data
Optical Specify 1-32 alphanumeric characters.
This field does not apply to Linux or OS/400 for PASE.
Removable file Specify 1-6 alphanumeric characters.
This field does not apply to OS/400 for PASE.
Server Specify 1-250 alphanumeric characters.
Tape Specify 1-6 alphanumeric characters.

Volume List File

Specify the name of a file where a list of volumes used in a successful export operation will be stored.

Note: If you specify this parameter with an existing file name, the existing file will be overwritten with the new information.